| Their demonstrable craft and frequent self-regarding preciosity is wearying. |
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| And on it goes, each lame joke greeted with feeble, self-regarding applause and laughter that comes like a slow belch. |
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| And in this self-regarding, claustrophobic atmosphere, he became disillusioned. |
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| By their vision, they have made us able to become conscious of ourselves through something that is not self-regarding or simply decoration. |
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| I want to be informed, entertained and thrilled by these pioneers, not bored and nauseated by mawkish and self-regarding metaphors. |
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| The heart-warming message of this self-regarding tosh is that everyone should follow their dreams. |
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| Unlike a lot of more vain, self-regarding actors, she finds it impossible to conceal her vulnerability. |
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| Despite a tub-thumping speech at conference he has proved himself lazy and self-regarding in the race so far. |
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| It might not be the most impressive show in the festival, but it's precisely the sort of experimental, self-regarding indulgence that I'd expect in Venice. |
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| It's like Center Parcs for the terminally self-regarding. |
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| Govier proposes that other self-regarding attitudes, such as self-respect and self-esteem, are integral components of self-trust. |
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| A self-regarding, truculent, miserable, paralyzed man. |
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| It had a self-regarding, matter-of-fact charisma. |
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| It is evidenced first in the family, where parents subordinate their self-regarding feelings to other-regarding feelings in the rearing of their children. |
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| Meaningfulness tries to replace structures, standards and disciplines with self-regarding emotion. |
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| But wasn't it also a little too self-regarding, less humble lark than richly-coloured peacock? |
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| But perhaps the individual who sums up the rotten self-regarding core of the English football team is David Beckham. |
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| The harm principle would also apply in upholding a zone of privacy for consensual or self-regarding acts involving consenting adults and in decriminalizing victimless crimes. |
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| Since he's such a self-regarding and aggrandising fool, we look on and laugh. |
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| In the process they imbued it with their most self-regarding qualities the playfulness and dutifulness of the panto hero, the fairness that is his reward and their mores. |
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| He falls for Witherspoon's professional softball player who's been having a go-nowhere fling with the self-regarding Matty but will the couple ever get it together? |
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