| 单词 | self-serving |
| 例句 | Many regarded the Sihanouk government as corrupt and self-serving, where the poor got poorer and the rich became richer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had assumed such people would be self-serving and wicked, low-class criminals. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s not one of those overly social, back-slapping types for whom the process of acquiring acquaintances is obvious and self-serving. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A more evil, vicious, and self-serving man could hardly be imagined, Esperanza had written in her book on the land of Opium. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They would say that guns are used for self-defense, if not violence, and therefore they are self-serving. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z In her enormously self-serving and revisionist autobiography, she asserted that she agreed to make the film only after Hitler promised to keep Goebbels at bay. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A more evil, vicious, and self-serving man could hardly be imagined, wrote Esperanza on the next line. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The probable cause showing could be based on nothing more than hearsay, innuendo, or even the paid, self-serving testimony of someone with interests clearly adverse to the property owner. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Aside from her self-serving desire to travel, Regina insisted on being part of the tour because she didn’t trust one of its participants: the shifty-eyed Norman T. Whitaker. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And the university officials who so diligently took note of those students in their self-serving totals of entering minority students finally took no note of them when they left. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I gave them happiness, but I was not so self-serving as to let them forgive me. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The key insight, possessing the potential to unlock the mystery produced by the contradictory versions of what happened during the duel, is that both sides constructed their explanations around self-serving and misguided assumptions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s a bankrupt, self-serving way of thinking,” says Mrs. McCracken. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They knew what had happened at school, and what was happening now, but they dismissed it in that self-serving way parents often had of pretending anything they can’t solve is not really a problem. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z How could he trust such a self-serving idea derived from hope and desire? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It certainly doesn't help that Turk's Higgins, an arrogant tyrant of vowels and self-serving patriarchal values, edges frequently into sitcom territory. 'Pygmalion' falls short in uneven Pasadena Playhouse revival “Actors should be free to accept any offer to participate in industry celebrations,” it added, describing the Academy’s tactics as “self-serving intimidation.” U.S. actors accuse Oscar body of intimidation over awards presenters 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “This self-serving intimidation of SAG-AFTRA members is meant to limit their opportunities to be seen and honor the work of their fellow artists throughout the season,” the statement continued. Oscars 2019: diverse presenters announced for host-less ceremony 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Writers may decide that Twitter is too narrow a space—too ephemeral, too rude or self-serving, too muddied by advertising and promotion—to both inspire and host meaningful fiction. The Great American Twitter Novel 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Given the current narcissism epidemic, that’s a little too self-serving for comfort. Celebrity moms make me feel better about myself 2013-09-05T22:59:00Z “I realize it sounds self-serving,” he says, “but in this case, employers really do need to work with counsel” when considering the fluctuating workweek method. Work Advice: Can this payment method ease overtime pain? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Today, she says, Washington is “a bunch of self-serving…” She searches for an expletive and after a second settles on “men”. Glenn Close: ‘You lose power if you get angry’ 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z Part of this reflects societal norms — our leaders in politics, sports and industry often are freely racist, sexist and self-serving — but we've worked hard to help our kids be kind and caring. Perspective | A parent of a teenage boy wonders: What happened to my kind kid? 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Themes and cliches plucked from countless country lyrics fuel a thoroughly unconvincing show business story about a larger-than-life, crash-and-burn star and her unruly entourage of self-serving personalities. "Country Strong" a Nashville nightmare 2010-12-22T23:47:51Z What I resent is when I express an opinion, some people will assume it can’t be true, or it must be self-serving, because I’m a celebrity. Al Franken and Olivia Wilde: Calling a Lie a Lie 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Beneficent hosts bestowing great gifts upon tearful recipients is now a cliche across the TV landscape and a nauseatingly self-serving one at that. For some, Oprah's exit is good riddance 2011-05-23T13:01:00Z In "Mad Men," Draper's self-serving drive was a boon to his advertising firm but destroyed his marriages and other personal relationships; viewers fawned over the fantasy of him anyway. Maybe Jon Hamm's billionaire act on "The Morning Show" is doing rich men like Elon Musk a favor 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z So right now I’m really enjoying the second season finale, but that just sounds really self-serving. Arrow Co-Creator Marc Guggenheim on Tonight's Season 2 Finale 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z But across nearly five hours, they’re also repetitive and occasionally self-serving. Review: ‘Leavenworth’ Puts the Army on Trial 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z There are countless laughs at self-serving bankers and at RBS, founded using English money donated to compensate Scotland for the Darién disaster. Caledonia 2010-08-22T14:41:00Z He also knows there is nothing he can do about it: “Anything I say sounds self-serving and defensive, so it’s best if I just go my way and work,” he says. 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Shakespeare concluded that though "awfully long, solipsistic and of necessity self-serving, is also funny, painfully moving and absolutely necessary to read." Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-09-28T21:55:08Z And, when the truth finally dawns about her dependence on Torvald's self-serving egotism, she resorts to downright violence. A Doll's House – review 2012-07-10T11:07:19Z The appalling tirade she delivers could be a self-serving tweetstorm, even though Molière wrote the stinging parable in the 17th century. Review | A woman plays the title character in ‘Don Juan,’ and he’s still a jerk 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The generous offer immediately set off a firestorm of debate on the social platform, with some chastising the restaurateur’s offer as self-serving, while others – even an executive McDonald’s chef – jumped in to defend Kokonas’ intentions. Chicago restaurateur's fine-dining offer for Clemson Tigers divides Twitter, gets slammed as 'opportunistic' 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z "Mandela was in a different struggle. The current leaders are in their own self-serving struggle," said student Paballo Nalane, 23, in a crowd at Nelson Mandela Square in Johannesburg. South Africans celebrate Mandela, rue broken promises 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z He combines strictly British aplomb, which allows him to greet monsters and ghosts as if he met them every day, with an alcoholic’s self-serving, self-preserving logic. Theater Review: ‘The Tempest,’ Presented by Shakespeare & Company 2012-07-30T22:19:52Z For such people, anything I might say is going to be self-serving, perverse and just plain wrong. Look to the gospels, not the pope 2010-12-02T12:21:00Z She thought so, and you weren’t, so now she’s asking you directly instead of signing on to your “it’s no one’s fault” theory of drift, which works only when it’s not patently self-serving. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She’s your best friend, but are you hers? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Women, some seem to believe, are self-serving, venomous and deceitful but can get away with whatever they want. Gone Girl revamps gender stereotypes – for the worse 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z If, as Row puts it, American fiction most often addresses race through silences and omissions, he wants to force these silences to speak, to reveal themselves as self-serving — meant to protect white supremacy. Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z For television, it would be self-serving to point you in the direction of James Poniewozik’s columns for this very site, wouldn’t it? How To Spend Pop Culture’s Summer Vacation 2012-08-22T12:00:54Z But I could argue that some of these efforts could be seen as self-serving or controlling. "Somebody's got to wear the leather pants": Rick James doc filmmaker on the infamous rock star 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s an almost messianic song, and a deeply self-serving way to discuss issues about equality. Critic’s Notebook: Finding His Place in the Hip-Hop Ecosystem 2014-01-27T13:03:34Z They should be reported on, fact-checked and put in context — not aired in their self-serving entirety as though he were a dictator with control over the state airwaves. Perspective | Live coverage of a Pennsylvania rally was another free ad for Trump’s favorite candidate: Himself 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Your father’s decision to keep your existence a secret is both self-serving and morally vacant. My Surprise Biological Father Doesn’t Want to Meet Me 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “I was favor-trading with people who were causing real-world harm so I could get a pat on the head from some client who wanted self-serving scuttlebutt fed to the rubes,” he writes of his career. ‘Why We Did It’ Is a Dark Ride on the ‘Republican Road to Hell’ 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s a bleak view, where values are situational at best, and more often, plainly self-serving. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: 'Go Ahead, Girls, Take a Break From Your Values' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z More than an amazing, almost Streisand-level singer, her acting is endearing and accessible, which is no easy feat, since she plays an annoying character: self-serving, narcissistic and occasionally ruthless. "Glee's" mysteriously shrinking Rachel 2010-10-08T17:30:00Z Rather than the statesman being self-serving and manipulative, here Diarmaid MacCulloch argues he was an idealist with a plan for the modern nation state. TV highlights 24/05/2013 2013-05-24T05:59:01Z Hyman, a labor historian at Cornell, argues that the common explanation for what happened — mainly, that our current dispensation was foisted on us by technological and economic change — is self-serving and inadequate. How the ‘Temp’ Economy Became the New Normal 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z But it is a day when the distant wail of firetruck sirens sound ominous, nerves grow raw and viewers become hypersensitive to the misplaced word or self-serving gesture. The TV Watch: 9/11?s Pain Through the Prism of TV 2011-09-08T14:12:24Z The tenor of those tweets suggests that the public saw the IOC as self-serving and lacking an interest in helping the host city. Anger in Tokyo over the Summer Olympics is the latest example of how unpopular hosting has become 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z And if you’re part of nature, then the reason for saving nature becomes about ourselves, becomes self-serving. How to “trick” people into caring about nature 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Not that Pence’s explanations amount to much more than self-serving spin. Loyal to God and Trump, Mike Pence Defends His Record 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z An injured American soldier later becomes an awkward deus ex machina figure, condemning the self-serving Giovanni. Review: San Francisco Opera’s ‘Two Women’ Depicts War’s Horror at High Pitch 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z But Kidman also makes Gretchen ever-so-slightly ridiculous, adding a sharp sliver of comedy that underscores how self-serving and futile her rebellious gestures at the network are, like when she appears on camera wearing no makeup. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z When you can’t prove your mistake was harmless, it only sounds self-serving to claim it was. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: ‘Happy birthday’ is okay. ‘You’re overreacting’ isn’t. 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “Women, some seem to believe, are self-serving, venomous and deceitful but can get away with whatever they want. It’s this outlook that Amy’s adventures could foster.” The Gone Girl backlash: what women don’t want 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z An ongoing gag about the Soapbox’s self-serving, politically correct “multicultural initiative” isn’t so fresh either. Seattle Rep mounts redo of ‘Inspecting Carol’ romp | Theater review 2012-11-30T23:03:22Z He is never cruel, never self-serving, never unjust. JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner by Richard Marson – review 2013-03-22T16:30:04Z It's self-serving, Mar-a-Lago Christmas, golf or traipse the halls, Validate yourself behind protective walls. Style Invitational Week 1310: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Incredible transforms into Mr. Indignant, declaring that they didn’t start the fight, which is an amusingly self-serving way to jump-start a sequel. Review: ‘Incredibles 2’ Is a Fast Blast (With Red Flags) 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z His own self-serving autobiography, we are told, "gratefully acknowledges the assistance of mediocrity's holy trinity: the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Toronto Arts Council". Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z Using the lowest standards, his mother's self-serving conclusion was progress. Living with the legacy of my Trump-voting Vietnamese relatives 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Marshall personally held more than 150 people in bondage, and was perpetuating a particular, and particularly self-serving, worldview: Plaintiffs like Queen were to be presumed enslaved instead of free. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z I’m optimistic enough to wonder whether McConnell’s post-trial statements, self-serving and hypocritical as they were, might sink in with some Americans. Perspective | ‘A moment of truth’? After years of Trump’s lies, amplified by MAGA media, that proved impossible for most Republicans 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z She suggests that when people in the West dismiss violence as a backward byproduct of religion, they’re being lazy and self-serving. Karen Armstrong on Sam Harris and Bill Maher: “It fills me with despair, because this is the sort of talk that led to the concentration camps” 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z He called the memoir “self-serving,” which is a polite description of the play’s fundamental flaw. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Sadly, "Off the Record" was made by the same company as the first "Dead Rising 2," so this feels less like a tribute to West's popularity and more like a massively self-serving cash grab. Game On: 'Dark Souls' blends skirmishes, visuals 2011-10-27T19:23:04Z And speaking of wrong hands, Hawley has already proved himself to be “a privateer” and a “self-serving reprobate,” who swiped the Judas coin from Abbie and Crane. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: A hex on her house 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Escobar’s philanthropy may be self-serving, but it’s hard to imagine his rivals feeling any identification with the poor. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 3: A Flawed Endgame 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z “The company pursued its naïvely utopian — and undeniably self-serving — goal with a tragic disregard for consequences,” Levy writes. ‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ Offers a Front-Row Seat on Voracious Ambition 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Similarly, even the most seemingly noble among them are ultimately tainted by self-serving motives. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z But then a self-serving media big-shot with the diving team gets too close while observing his subject. The five best science fiction/fantasy books of 2014 So they throw Laszlo a roast, which goes wrong in all the ways while revealing Laszlo's influence on this usually self-serving group. It's a scientific fact: "What We Do in the Shadows" Laszlo is a friend we need, in deed 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z He hates what has become of his homeland, now filled with “millions of Meursaults,” and he loathes most of all the self-serving clerics, who hound him everywhere, trying to bring him into the flock. ‘The Meursault Investigation,’ by Kamel Daoud 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z “They’re always looking for a political or self-serving motive from a politician.” How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Beware of black-and-white thinking, by the way; when used to justify choices, it tends to be self-serving. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is she being selfish or is she just impatient? 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Her video represents the apotheosis of coronavirus trolling: a global crisis is filtered through the influencer machine and emerges as a purely self-serving spectacle. The Unending Anxiety of Coronavirus Content 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Trump supporters called the founders grifters and “self-serving RINOS” — charges they called ridiculous in light of Trump’s fundraising. Analysis | Seven bleak takeaways from Showtime’s ‘The Lincoln Project’ miniseries 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The bigot, the zealot, the self-serving “patriot” have rarely had their case made for them so lucidly in a work of progressive-minded fiction. Sex Goddess, Celebrity and the Best Hope for Her Country 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z For a very long time, this was taken not as a self-serving fantasy but as a token of honesty, or freedom from sentimental conceptions of domestic love. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z In the three countries I’ve spent my life caring about—India, the U.K., and the United States—self-serving falsehoods are regularly presented as facts, while more reliable information is denigrated as “fake news.” Salman Rushdie on Truth, Lies, and Literature 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z While many of their more self-serving colleagues pursue ignoble agendas, network heroines in top positions are multitasking do-gooders trying to keep the nation safe. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Contrary to the notion of self-serving noblemen leading Russia to disaster, these men, as portrayed by Mr. Lieven, “were far from stupid” and generally decent. Review: ‘The End of Tsarist Russia’ by Dominic Lieven 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Many of the filmmaker’s beetles and birds are self-serving to a fault, abandoning their young, leaving them to others’ care or ingesting them to recover their strength after giving birth. On the Runway Blog: From Isabella Rossellini, Creature Moms 2013-05-12T12:00:38Z That is to say, each over-the-top Broadway-style banger feels earnest, awkward, clumsy, and a tad self-serving. The "Transparent Musicale Finale" is a fitting eulogy for a wacky, messy series 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Their words are variously reflective and blunt, candid and self-serving, but the film’s purpose is less to relitigate past events than to make sense of them. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Politicians are often disparaged for being self-serving; Madsen’s acting deftly straddles the line between narcissism and sincere competence. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 5: Who’s the Real Hero? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z In addition, Rushdie’s Mahound puts his own words into the angel Gibreel’s mouth and delivers edicts to his followers that conveniently bolster his self-serving purposes. Why “The Satanic Verses” remains so controversial 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z So long as those who exercise power are secretive and self-serving — and so long as democratic citizens value vigilance and even a degree of mistrust — it always will be. "Corrosive beliefs are at the heart of what America is": James Tynion on conspiracy theories 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s also clear quite soon that Szeles, who performs as the Amazing Johnathan, is up to something cruel and self-serving but, for the purposes of our absorption, clever, too. ‘The Amazing Johnathan Documentary’ Review: The Joke’s on Who? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Few explorers escape Dippel’s scorn in this chronicle of “self-serving deeds.” To the Poles — Before They Started Melting 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z We certainly went into the production with the idea of politicians as loathsome, self-serving animals. Christopher Eccleston: from superheroes to Sophocles 2012-06-27T16:58:42Z The book also serves another function: as a rallying cry against greedy and self-serving administrations. …is writing about life 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The sort of thing concocted by men whose collegiate experience taught them little beyond how to turn self-serving reminiscences into middling indie movies. ‘Pretenders’ Review: A Little New Wave Love, a Lot of Misogyny 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Wilson, a father of two, directs his most merciless satire at the self-serving maneuvers of wealthy parents who offload their children’s emotional needs to preserve an artificial image of the perfect family. Review | Children burst into flames in Kevin Wilson’s ‘Nothing to See Here’ 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z It's easy to accuse those who write memoir of being self-serving: Are they shameless narcissists or uncontrolled confessors? Memoirists weigh in with 'Why We Write About Ourselves' 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z But Tsujihara said there were concerns that issuing a statement might appear self-serving. MPAA's Chris Dodd is facing industry upheaval and clashing studios 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z There's no surprise in the Cowell that Rushfield presents, but he does bring him to life -- by turns brilliant and exasperating, self-serving and disarmingly honest. "American Idol" book misses the right notes 2011-01-20T05:42:17Z As in Tom Waits’ great lyric, cultural historians lurch from diary to letter to self-serving memoir like drunks “using parking meters for walking sticks.” Ernest Hemingway's long-lost Los Angeles visit, 80 years ago today 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Jesse's decision to quit therapy now that he's had a self-serving "epiphany" is tragic, but normal. "In Treatment" finale recap: Jesse calls it quits 2010-12-08T13:30:00Z Mr. Crowell is not at all shy about his desire to be taken seriously as a writer, or about his fears that readers assume a book by a musician is just another self-serving, career-spanning tell-all. The Texas Tribune: Rodney Crowell?s Audacity of Spirit 2011-02-06T08:00:04Z Wilson's also a pleasure to watch, molding Bonnie into a reluctant accessory to Ike's vanity and deceit as she chafes against his self-serving actions. "The Shrink Next Door" is a compelling stranger-than-fiction anchored by Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z “It’s unexpected content. It’s not always self-serving. You could easily read it somewhere else.” Arts organizations are hiring pros to tell their stories “The Tribune investigation makes it clear that this life-threatening issue has been swamped by self-serving chemical companies and lack of aggressive oversight by our government,” Durbin told the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Durbin demands action on flame retardants 2012-05-10T20:34:00Z Deep in the bowels of Disney+, a clutch of self-serving documentaries reveal how drunk the company has become on its own myth over the years. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z West is used to being written off by many as a shallow, petulant, needy, self-serving braggart, a talented artist who can’t resist impaling himself on his own ego. Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen 2013-06-16T20:37:00Z Trump is very rich, although how rich remains a subject of investigation, given the wildly varying and self-serving values he’s assigned his many real estate assets. Why We Let White-Collar Criminals Get Away With Their Crimes 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z It’s just self-serving, arrogant people saying stupid things. | Mather Zickel: Mather Zickel ‘Reports’ the News for Adult Swim 2013-01-17T15:40:14Z Film and television are full of self-serving criminals transformed into self-sacrificing heroes by circumstance. There's no hiding from it: The politics of "Andor" look a lot like the type troubling our world 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z However, other sex workers were skeptical of their motives, finding them self-serving rather than truly dedicated to social change. “Hookers for Hillary” doesn’t speak for all sex workers: “Presidential politics is not where we will find our liberation” 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z In fact, the squandering was their major talent Maybury, on the other hand, inhabits the cooler London art world of the 1990s, a self-serving, narcissistic demi-monde of an altogether different sort. Love Is the Devil: the view from the art world 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z This self-serving book doesn’t make the most appealing case. Chris Christie’s Memoir Praises Trump, but Says, ‘I Told You So’ 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z On the other hand, Cory's shifting and self-serving allegiances make it clear that with the right amount of spin, Mitch very well could have made a comeback. "The Morning Show" looks at how consequences catch up to some people sooner than others 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z "This leaves only plaintiff's own self-serving testimony that he drafted the contract, that he and Dash signed it, and that he lost track of it in 1998," the judge wrote. Rap star Jay Z prevails in lawsuit over Roc-A-Fella logo 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Such scare tactics are clearly self-serving in this instance, but OSHA’s recalibration of its penalty system got serious coverage in trade journals and among industry associations. NH post office cuts hours 2012-06-25T15:30:00Z The legends are many, but one theme that frequently emerges shows her, disgusted with the tergiversations of self-serving humans, dancing with such fury that the whole earth shakes and mountains topple into the sea. Do not underestimate the curse of Greer ? the Hindu goddess Kali is on my side 2010-10-03T21:31:00Z He says California is more racist than Mississippi, that its people are solipsistic and self-serving. John Murry: 'We praise self-destruction' 2013-06-04T18:00:01Z That self-serving attitude also attends the Black Eyed Pea's first solo album since 2007. will.i.am: #willpower – review 2013-04-25T20:30:03Z However, "Retired Since 2017" is a self-serving and convenient revisionist history of Spacey's ouster from Hollywood. Why is Kevin Spacey trolling us now? 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The high-level leaks on Stuxnet and the kill list, which have finally created such a fuss, actually follow no less self-serving leaked details from last year’sbin Laden raid in Pakistan. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z Given the truths that do emerge, it’s a convincing explanation for her methods—if also, apparently, a self-serving one. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Kissinger’s secrecy was self-serving, designed to boost his influence and diminish his domestic peers. Learning From Henry Kissinger 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z What if we’re just children who pretend to sophistication, playing to win at a self-serving version of moral life while ignoring the rules that matter? What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z One diarist, scribbling away late at night after long and stressful days, and writing from a self-serving perspective, will not be wholly trustworthy. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z The antisocial writer and the self-serving real estate agent, among the others, feel like no more than petty character types. ‘Block Association’ Review: Yes, in Your Backyard 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z The “fix” was rather self-serving: Either accept another rental at more than three times the rate, or another rental at about double the price, once you include mandatory fees. Travel Troubleshooter | The curious case of the missing rental car 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z This is just about rejecting dishonesty, and refusing to abet the telling of self-serving fictions at someone else’s expense. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Don’t tell, but don’t cover for brother who’s being vague about divorce 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z A corrupt politician’s self-serving development plan is called the New Harlem Renaissance. Review: ‘Marvel’s Luke Cage,’ a Hero for Harlem 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Despite a justifiable reticence surrounding pious displays of American pride, the left has made a critical error by not forcefully confronting the right's self-serving, deceitful, and hateful brand of chauvinism. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Meaning, because Anna doesn't want to come back and because Ned is a self-serving sociopath, the hunt is on. Lydia Millet has cooked up a contemplative thriller of endurance in 'Sweet Lamb of Heaven' 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z But I’m as impatient with critics who embrace self-serving auteurist fundamentalism or aesthetic formalism as I am with those belligerent fan boys who insist that only a comic-book obsessive can review a superhero movie. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z If you betray that confidence in a self-serving way, Bennett says, your career in politics will likely end. Cassidy Hutchinson and the all-knowing presence of Washington’s aides 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z He seems to be achieving an all-too-common male “adulthood”: that is, one of deceit and self-serving, interrupted by twinges of conscience that do nothing but flatter his idea of himself. ‘The Salt of Tears’ Review: More Than Just a Cad’s Progress 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Critics derided the medical profession as self-serving, elitist, and insensitive to the needs of patients for these holes in the system: a condemnation as familiar in 1960 as 1860. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z Two queens, a gaggle of self-serving politicians, a murder plot, a rivalry for regal dominance: George R.R. ‘Mary Stuart’ Review: A Battle Royal in a Brooklyn Apartment 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z No, it’s the gross, self-serving hypocrisy of the elites that people hate. The Panama Papers reveal scandalous hypocrisy: The leak’s reminded us that governments make it all too easy for the super-rich to hide their money 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z I wonder if she agrees with Gordon’s self-serving version of events. Crazy tales about Alice Cooper, Groucho Marx and more 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Season 4 begins by giving Sidney a hasty, unconvincing new romance—and, worse, does so via a self-serving use of the American civil-rights movement. The Unholy Pleasures of “Grantchester,” The Original Hot-Priest Show 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z We need to separate the process of evolution – which is, indeed, a self-serving process – and the actual motivations of animals. My bright idea: evolution and empathy 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z He admits: "I am not a historian," and this memoir is impressionistic, weak on chronology and sometimes self-serving. Self-Portrait by Man Ray – review 2012-06-12T11:30:02Z A self-serving reminder of the prosperity the country enjoyed during Mr. Clinton’s tenure in the White House, meant to burnish his legacy. Books of The Times: ?Back to Work? Has Bill Clinton?s Ideas for America - Review 2011-11-07T19:14:59Z Silverman is at his best when reporting on how our new ecology of likes and shares feeds the predatory capitalist maw, while exposing the self-serving rhetoric of the likes of Mark Zuckerberg. 'Terms of Service' a critique of modern life built on social media 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z His self-righteous nature comes off as smug and self-serving. Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton heat up Amazon's sleepy thriller "All the Old Knives" 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z In his closing address to the jury, he described Dr Smith's evidence as: "disingenuous, self-serving and dishonest". Extreme porn trial: consensual sex and the state 2012-08-08T16:29:27Z Some of this information is revealing about the interplay of personality and policy and politics in Washington; some of it is just self-serving spin. Books of The Times: Afghanistan as Obama and Others Game It 2010-09-22T22:53:00Z Mr. Cohan raises the same question as he writes that the firm’s onetime dedication to its clients has evolved into something more ruthlessly self-serving. Books Of The Times: Diving in Search Of the ?Great Vampire Squid? 2011-04-11T20:59:16Z Such self-serving exaltations underscore Mr. Roberts’s, well, slender charisma. | 'America the Beautiful 2': Darryl Roberts?s ?America the Beautiful 2? ? Review 2011-10-11T22:27:11Z It’s too bad that the documentary, which errs with a self-serving scene of employees at The Times feting Mr. Cunningham, didn’t, like its subject, stick to the streets. Film: The New Directors/New Films Series Begins 2010-03-23T22:03:00Z That paved the way for the self-serving, murderous president of "House of Cards," a man who goes from House majority whip to vice president to president in two seasons. TV's presidential portrayals go from salute to 'Hail to the Creep' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z He looks relaxed and approachable, although the shot was as staged and self-serving in its way as Russell's portrait of the "outlaw" Richards. From a musician to a rock star 2011-08-23T14:55:40Z Most of us take the Declaration for granted or ignore it; we enshrine it as holy writ, or we deride it as the self-serving testament of a bunch of white, male slave-owning hypocrites. Two cheers for the Declaration of Independence: The weird, contradictory and radical vision of human equality that America couldn’t handle 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Being with them brings to mind that Black Mirror episode where new partners have preordained expiry dates, and dating is merely a self-serving means of getting over somebody else. Forget cat ladies: the real tribes of modern dating, from fantasists to routiners 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z But such slick, award-winning cinema isn't about nuance, it's just self-serving moral ambiguity – and in this sense it is a fitting cultural reflection of actual US policy in the Middle East. And the winner is … Islamophobia 2013-01-15T08:30:03Z There my precocity at writing self-important, self-serving, impenetrably dull articles that everyone stopped reading long before the end of the first paragraph was noticed by the editor and I was transferred to the leader-writing team. Digested read: Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg 2011-07-11T20:30:02Z According to documents, Smollett’s legal team claim that the police department “obtained false, self-serving and unreliable statements” from the Osundairo brothers. Jussie Smollett files malicious prosecution claim against Chicago 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Penn’s failure is further compounded by his 60 Minutes interview, which was as misguided and self-serving as the Rolling Stone article.” Sean Penn's El Chapo interview 'horribly misguided' says Cartel author 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Whatever friendship they had began to dissipate as Eckford started to suspect that Bryan’s apologies were more self-serving than sincere. Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z In "A Man For All Seasons," he is a man of prayer and honor; here he is just as tyrannical, brutal and self-serving as the king he championed and the men he opposed. TV Picks: David Letterman, 'Wolf Hall,' Amy Schumer 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Bobby’s sexist pronouncements are outrageous, but his stunts are so absurd and self-serving that they’re hard to take seriously. Review: Advantage, Bobby, but Game, Set, Match, Billie Jean 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z As the show develops, though, it becomes increasingly clear that Falstaff is merely the most grotesque version of the self-serving characters in the world of these plays. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z She broke off her engagement by claiming that she had failed to reconcile Emily to it, a self-serving explanation that paved the way for the tempest to come. The Love Triangle That Caused a Religious Panic 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z She doesn't . . . but a production-inserted twist does, because the self-serving persona Coco creates is too good to let go. "Dear White People" visits the "Big Brother" Cookout via a pointed parody of reality show racism 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Read it, rather, as what is it: self-serving in places but relatively honest, if not a knockout blow then something of a necessary punch. Read Hillary Clinton's 'What Happened' in context and with an open mind. What she's written says something about America 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Frank Scheck from The Hollywood Reporter described the show as "self-serving" and Tyson's monologue "frequently profane, sometimes draggy" but "weirdly fascinating". Mike Tyson's show to tour the US 2012-11-29T11:48:32Z Jesus's angry mockery of the Pharisees was not just a rebuke to a sect – he was talking about the self-serving prig in all of us. Look to the gospels, not the pope 2010-12-02T12:21:00Z And I don’t mean this to sound self-serving in any way, but we really got a kick out of each other, I think. The Crown writer Peter Morgan on William Goldman: 'He was just a sublime storyteller' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Naomi’s crusading is crafted to feel simultaneously sincere and self-serving, fitful and inconsistent. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The “VIP” sign on each shield seems to allude to his widely documented narcissism and suggests that the deployment of police is a self-serving ploy to burnish his public image. New York’s Sidewalk Prophets Are Heirs of the Artisans of France’s Lascaux Caves 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z In the script they are portrayed as a couple of self-serving numbskull politicians, vying to represent a mythical 14th District of North Carolina in the United States House of Representatives. ‘The Campaign,’ a Bipartisan Film Comedy 2012-05-30T22:33:06Z Men were constantly spouting specious and self-serving theories of what was natural; here was a man suggesting that those things might not be so natural after all. How a Group of Heretical Thinkers Chipped Away at the Idea of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Could the bereaved mother phrase things better, yes, but to read “shelve baby talk around grieving cousin” as “never talk about babies everty-ever” is self-serving beyond any words within my reach. Carolyn Hax: Staggering insensitivity for cousin who had stillborn child 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z But he identified "an irritating and highly self-serving argument that appears in various forms … This seems to be an attempt to delegitimise all religious discourse." Book reviews roundup: Sex and the Citadel, Life After Life and The God Argument 2013-03-15T16:00:02Z It’s not that such sentiments aren’t true, it’s that they begin to seem self-serving. ‘Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly’ Hunts for Big — and Elusive — Game 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z “I think instinctively, he was always kind of a renegade and also a narcissist, and self-serving and mendacious.” How Julian Assange went from First Amendment hero to partisan figure in the eyes of the public 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z “Fascists love ‘Dune,’” Carroll writes, though he sees this love as a self-serving misreading. ‘Dune’ Review: A Hero in the Making, on Shifting Sands 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z If his bedroom shenanigans were a bit self-serving, didn’t that amorous touch also foster interspecies understanding? “Star Trek” in the age of Trump: Why we need to embrace its 50-year mission now more than ever 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z “I don’t mean to be uncharitable, but much of this is self-serving rubbish,” wrote former labor secretary Robert Reich in a widely circulated column in the Guardian last month. The pandemic is testing the generosity of billionaires, according to a Washington Post survey of the 50 richest Americans 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s a self-righteous and self-serving sort of fatalism that sounds remarkably similar to the explanation he gave years ago for preemptively signing up for the National Guard in 1970 and thereby avoiding service in Vietnam. In ‘The Room Where It Happened,’ John Bolton Dumps His Notes and Smites His Enemies 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Comments by those at the center of things that day often take on a self-serving air, but Mr. Bush keeps that to a minimum. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? Sept. 3 2011-08-28T04:30:07Z Some of this conversation is self-serving strategy, since winning on "Big Brother" and similar competition shows that employ social elements requires people to display loyalty to other players until that loyalty has outlived its purpose. "Dear White People" visits the "Big Brother" Cookout via a pointed parody of reality show racism 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Jupiter, whose back story as a child actor connects him to that wayward chimp, is a bit like the mayor of Amity — less a villain than the representative of a clueless, self-serving status quo. ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z I should specify: It’s not utterly ghoulish to offer this kind of assistance once; it’s not even 100 percent self-serving. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: An inheritance play called ‘Waiting for the Dough’ 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z I am trying to reconstruct the man who would make such a self-serving choice, which is also a choice that resulted in me. What I talk about when I talk about Woody Allen 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z I think it is probably true, and not just self-serving, that children gain more from spending an extended time abroad than the equivalent in a school. The rise of travelling families and world-schooling 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Anonymous: “This American Life” did an episode about apologies that unfolds into almost a workshopping of one, from a totally self-serving rough draft to an effective expression of remorse. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A step-parent acknowledges a past betrayal 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z How self-serving, disingenuous, self-deceiving, honourable or dishonourable each player's account was the programme makers left to the viewer to decide. The Iraq War; Mothers, Murders and Mistresses; Confessions of a Male Stripper: First Cut – TV review 2013-05-30T06:00:17Z Malignant forms — for example, the effect of self-serving political policies — may be imperceptible in the short run, or even during a lifetime, yet still be massively destructive over a longer span of time. One Environmentalist’s Warning: Think Globally, Act Accordingly 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z This struck me hard: a teenage boy trying to reconcile my own lack of faith within a pervasively theistic culture, as well as a burgeoning alienation from a power structure that seemed so self-serving. I think Dan Brown turned my parents into QAnoners 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z Driven by a mixture of self-serving calculation and genuine tenderness for a girl half her age, Anne runs increasing risks as the novel takes a leisurely course toward disaster. Review | ‘A Net for Small Fishes’ is dark, entertaining historical fiction 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The annotations help but are too often self-serving. Books of The Times: From Seat of Power, Battling Many Crises 2010-09-26T22:18:00Z The right sees the left’s demand for Kavanaugh to withdraw as a self-serving ploy to besmirch the nominee’s reputation. Brett Kavanaugh gives “The Circus” what it desperately needs: cliffhangers and unpredictable... 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Her supporters agree that her form of ambition is more generous than self-serving. Mapping a Bold Vision for the California African American Museum 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The streets are "thin experiments in meaning"; the speaker's mother sounds a note of what might be self-serving caution. Poem of the week: Descent by Frances Williams 2010-06-14T11:26:00Z I could see she was a very bright young woman, and there wasn’t a whole lot that I could tell her that would be helpful other than self-serving for myself. Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose: From One Anita to Another 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z But when put into the hands of self-serving or otherwise unscrupulous conservators, however, it can lead to exploitation and abuse. The disturbing history of how conservatorships were used to exploit, swindle Native Americans 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z She essentially embodies the obnoxiously self-serving “They have nothing, but they’re so happy” attitude of many western travellers. White Saviour Barbie's world of orphanage selfies and charity startups 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z I filmed the other actors before myself, because I never wanted to appear self-serving, so I did their closeups first. Barbra Streisand Can Hear Herself Again 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z After decades of Hollywood erasing, distorting and degrading black bodies in the name of entertainment and self-serving uplift, the lens has finally widened with a new sense of urgency and agency. Has there been an ‘Obama effect’ in Hollywood? 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z It results in fatalism, nihilism and a general belief that everyone is corrupt, biased, and/or self-serving. Don’t worry, be cynical: Why the fear of a nation of critical skeptics is overblown 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The phrase exists more than 2 million times online, and it is inevitably a lie — usually a blatant one, employed to make a self-serving point by someone attempting to mislead you. The audacious lie behind the phrase ‘nothing could be further from the truth’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The reason Hiddleston’s self-serving comments rankled was their strong whiff of careerism; but, just as often, it’s clear that actors’ embrace of particular issues springs from sincerity rather than cynicism. Meryl Streep, Donald Trump and the now-familiar battle of the bubbles 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Sometimes actors could be a little bit self-serving or just only see their category because they're just in a bubble within their own experience. “What is fair?”: Rosie Perez on the complexities of playing a federal prosecutor on "Your Honor" 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z He’s in the grip of a festering rage that erupts in self-serving rants and macho bullying. A vigorous new staging of Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ at Seattle Rep 2013-01-18T21:38:59Z It was a showboating move, for sure, and Hoffa was “an improbable defender of the American Constitution,” Goldsmith writes, but just because Hoffa’s talk of civil liberties was conspicuously self-serving doesn’t mean he was wrong. ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Details How a Famous Disappearance Hit Close to Home 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z It's a device to get buzz going, get people talking about summer records, and fuel the self-serving Hollywood publicity machine. Iron Man 2 rockets to US No 1 2010-05-10T09:08:00Z The character as written is vain, self-serving and demagogic, cynically manipulating the whiplash passions of his followers. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z I need to really muse over things, because I’m very sensitive and I don’t want any of this to be self-serving. Forty Years of the 4077th: Elliott Gould on the Anniversary of 'MASH' 2010-09-03T14:00:00Z Refuse to broadcast/publish photos and/or self-serving statements made by the individual. Essay: Refusing to say a killer’s name is no more than symbolic empowerment 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z You need self-serving human villains, constantly putting their own needs above the greater good, to keep things interesting and mess things up for everyone else. Game of Thrones: where have all the baddies gone? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z "The Expanse" isn't shy about depicting Inaros as a self-serving, dangerous cult leader, to be clear. "The Expanse" shows the dangers of treating extremism as a joke 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Now Elizabeth's fractious circle of advisers gives her self-serving and conflicting advice on her next move. At ACT, a tale of 2 queens, 1 throne 2011-09-16T19:59:04Z If non-linear jigsaws were too superficial, then old-school linear narrative – of the sort practised by Hollywood – is too lodged in a single, self-serving perspective. A Hijacking and The Reluctant Fundamentalist announce a new narrative order 2013-05-15T12:47:25Z Alas, this sort of self-serving thing wouldn’t work for modern newspaper columnists because wise, shrewd and scrupulously ethical people like Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos would see through it in an instant. Gene Weingarten’s most pathetic career moment? This column idea. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z But Bond’s humour is self-serving and self-satisfied, the kind beloved by people who belong to private members’ clubs. I've never seen … any James Bond film | Hadley Freeman 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z And, more pointedly for viewers in the fractious summer of 2020: a portrait of the many ways self-improvement turns self-serving, apologies mask as empty pleas for absolution, and enlightenment serves as exploitation of another. Ramy: the smartest, darkest TV comedy that you're not watching 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The anti-spoiler brigade might sound tetchy and self-serving, but they’re not wrong to remind critics, as Bong wrote, that the audience deserves to “experience bated breath at every turn of the story, small and big.” Perspective | What Quentin Tarantino’s no-spoiler letter got right about criticism 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “And for this he took unto himself considerable credit,” Crane writes, as Fleming’s self-serving consciousness turns a final pirouette. Caleb Crain: The Hectic Career of Stephen Crane 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Finishing off with a self-serving but still amusing Jennifer Aniston cameo, the segment overall had a strong perspective and enough good jokes to make it worthwhile. Saturday Night Live review: Emma Stone rocks as real Donald Trump weighs in 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z These self-appointed, self-serving narratives described a deified figure I didn't recognise. Saul Bellow's Heart by Greg Bellow – digested read 2013-04-14T16:00:01Z These vague definitions lend themselves to political hanky-panky, in which politically powerful and well-connected providers exempt themselves from the bill’s luxury tax, or set up its definition of “quality” in self-serving ways. Massachusetts Institutes Health-Care Price Controls. Is America Next? 2012-05-07T03:03:48Z That it was all wrapped into an ad for Intel praising Gaga’s own wild innovation led to some critiques that the whole act was a bit self-serving. Lady Gaga's Oscars Will Prove She's Pop's Reigning Champion 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Witherspoon's Bradley Jackson looks like a more familiar fit for her, a reporter from a conservative Southern family who Alex plucked out of cable news obscurity for entirely self-serving reasons. "The Morning Show" shifts to cover the pandemic, but still needs a shot in the arm to find its soul 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Then before you know it, he’s masterminding a series of self-serving, vengeance-driven executions of his foes and rivals. Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ the Stage Version, Untangles Tudor History With Relish 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s never not self-serving, but in Handler’s case it also seems sort of untrue. Review: Netflix's' Chelsea Does' is a Narcissistic New Low 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z A: It's just a self-serving political movement that uses the success of "Ida" to further their own causes. A Minute With: 'Ida' director Pawlikowski on Oscars, Poland 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The key problem is the film’s fear of the original author Carlo Collodi’s theme: that children are raw material inclined to sloth, foolishness and self-serving fibs. ‘Pinocchio’ Review: As the Story Grows 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Had I said anything, it probably would have come out as the usual hackneyed and self-serving blend of white liberal guilt. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z “It’s silly. The actors have no idea of the facts and they latch on to some self-serving, public, safe position. Who in the world is not against child molestation?” he says. 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z To them, he is part of Virginia’s sad political descent from the birthplace of presidents to its present swirl of corruption and self-serving politicians — like Florida, but with four true seasons and lousier theme parks. Scandals usually end political careers. Not Joe Morrissey’s. 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z “Yes, this seems like a self-serving erasure, but I was just following standard practice for any form of screen entertainment,” Affleck is basically saying. On Ben Affleck slavery controversy, a slippery comparison 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z His memoir is by turns insightful and evasive, serious and funny, self-deprecatory and self-serving. Ex-mayor offers insider's account of city politics 2011-04-05T13:52:08Z Maoist bureaucracy was corrupt and self-serving, party activists were bourgeois and anti-socialist, and the communist revolution under threat. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z The piecing is helped by reading Mr. Ferrer’s brisk, opinionated if sometimes self-serving account of his life and artistic development that is a marvelous self-portrait of a young artist finding himself. Art Review: Rafael Ferrer at El Museo del Barrio 2010-06-10T21:56:00Z Armstrong will probably never recover because he lied repeatedly and for such obviously self-serving reasons; Bill Clinton lied in an attempt to save his own hide. Americans' ability to forgive, forget fibs depends on who tells them 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Basically, the more we over think something, the more self-serving we behave. The science of selfishness: Humans aren’t actually hard-wired to be jerks 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z After her husband’s death, Mrs. Eliot was wounded by criticism that he had been cold and self-absorbed, that he had been an anti-Semite, that his treatment of his first wife had been ruthlessly self-serving. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z Seldon said most political memoirs are self-serving, "historically pretty useless" and don't live up to the hype. Blair memoir excites booksellers, riles critics 2010-08-31T15:55:00Z I’d call it self-serving except that in a play that isn’t autobiography the question of “self” has been fudged. Review: Playwriting and Bug-Hunting Wed in ‘The Catastrophist’ 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z I knew before I opened it that it wouldn't feature any art critics because the art world is a hermetically sealed, self-serving cabal in which an art critic's opinion is largely irrelevant. Art power list 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z They may be self-serving, but does that discount them? Fighting Fyre with Fyre: the story of two warring festival documentaries 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Obviously Nero is totally self-serving and hysterical and politically corrupt and dangerous. A Monteverdi Master Returns to His Roots With a Rare Trilogy 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z “Vikings” is stocked with such compelling figures — people who like to cause trouble and behave nobly in one moment and are self-serving, devious, even murderous in the next. How do we learn to stop worrying and keep loving “Vikings”? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z In fact, he is so full of self-serving, self-contradictory nonsense throughout the whole thing that he’s making Donald Trump seem lucid and considerate by comparison. “The Fat Jew” defends himself and comes up short: Even on “the cutting edge of the Internet,” stealing actually is “a matter of right or wrong” 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z There are events and politicians who are absent, not because they don't matter, but because they are part of a different story to the self-serving one I want to tell! Digested read: Tony Blair A Journey 2010-09-01T17:49:00Z “But I feel like it’s a bit self-serving for me to participate in this,” he said. Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Like all the nerviest and best auditions, this special was self-serving in the extreme, and teetered on the edge of failing. Donald Trump's Interview With Megyn Kelly Proved Her Strength 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z He announces from the outset that his “self-serving celebrity autobiography is different from other self-serving autobiographies.” Neil Patrick Harris chats about his choose-your-own-adventure memoir 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z “Autobiographies are by definition self-serving and mine is no exception,” he says, adding he was pressured to write it by friends and a literary agent, and finally agreed “primarily to shut them up.” Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hotheaded Perfectionist 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Say “I’m sorry I’m late. I’m a self-serving traveler who thinks the entire world revolves around me.” A Former F.B.I. Negotiator and His Tips for Travel 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z The more glaring exception is Washington, where there is apparently nothing sexist or old school about painting women as venal, self-serving and manipulative. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Prime Time’s Other Women in Power 2014-05-02T12:00:01Z Michael, on the other hand, thinks those young people need a really good psychiatrist, and he suspects Lucas of some self-serving hucksterism. 'The Rite': Anthony Hopkins is an actor possessed in this cheesy thriller 2011-01-27T22:44:12Z Were his attempts to bond with his son artificial and self-serving? Summer readings: Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 2011-08-25T08:38:22Z Feminism, she tells us, has become a self-serving brand popularized by C.E.O.s and beauty companies, a “fight to allow women to participate equally in the oppression of the powerless and the poor.” The Case Against Contemporary Feminism 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The self-serving spitefulness of the Roy family was repeatedly put into sharp relief by a number of foils and opponents who were somehow even worse. The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 1 – Succession 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z But this, as Berliners knew better than anybody, was a convenient and self-serving rewrite of history. America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z Authors who aim to write serious and important books for children sometimes forget that if a child isn’t motivated to finish a book, then all that fancy stuff halfway through becomes nothing more than self-serving. The “Goosebumps” Conundrum: What Makes a Children’s Book Good? 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Nor was this simply a self-serving attitude, peddled by the ill-educated because they had most to gain from it. Christianity: a faith for the simple 2011-01-31T13:00:01Z Those architectural dreams, as self-serving as many of them were, were quickly battered or swept aside by the plans and timetables of various elected and appointed officials. The newly opened $4-billion World Trade Center transit hub is overwrought and underwhelming 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z He was surrounded by self-serving political operators, distinguished only by their levels of competence or weakness. Review: More Power, More Problems in House of Cards 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Mistakes happen when evidence gets mixed up, when suspects lie to protect themselves or other people, when witnesses are shaken, high on drugs or self-serving. Don't look away from Ava DuVernay's "When They See Us," the most important series on TV now 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Celebrity activism can feel a little self-serving; it’s not unlike when corporations produce politics-lite merchandise in an effort to profit from a cultural movement. More backlash for Alyssa Milano over her support of Marianne Williamson's presidential bid 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z And when that happens, it’s always the power-mad, the manipulative, the greedy, the delusional who bid highest, who swarm into the vacuum, who impose their own self-serving reality on everyone else. Review | You’ve probably never heard of these artists, but they painted reality in a way we’ve lost sight of 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The elected governor is a self-serving politician who paves his way with bribes and lies even as he lets some islanders starve. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z A credible biography of Dr. Kevorkian has to focus on the self-serving zealotry beneath the martyr’s guise, but Mr. Pacino has a subversive gift for tapping into the endearing underside of the most despicable villains. | 'You Don?t Know Jack': ?You Don?t Know Jack,? With Al Pacino, on HBO 2010-04-22T19:28:00Z But Henry, though self-serving, is a more idealistic figure, who hopes to build a better society even as he's shagging on a bed of stamps in the GPO during the Easter rising. The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z “This self-serving intimidation of SAG-AFTRA members is meant to limit their opportunities to be seen and honor the work of their fellow artists throughout the season,” the statement continued to read. Screen Actors Guild accuses Academy of ‘intimidation’ over Oscars ceremony 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Holocaust survivors condemn Von Trier's repulsive comments as an insensitive exploitation of victims' suffering for self-serving promotion and publicity. Director Trier stirs up Cannes with Nazi comments 2011-05-18T12:40:06Z “Awareness” is a self-serving, largely meaningless term, a rationalization for petty, demeaning stunts. Surprise, PETA! Sex doesn’t sell 2013-12-20T15:54:00Z Perfectly timed to coincide with Spandau Ballet’s current reunion tour, “Soul Boys of the Western World” is a cheekily self-serving account of the English group’s rise to glory in the 1980s and its later dissolution. Review: ‘Soul Boys of the Western World’ Revisits Spandau Ballet 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z It also happens to be more self-serving for its white male creators. Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Seriously, Mondelēz is the evil face of self-serving capitalism writ large. We do mind the gap! Who has cut down Toblerone’s triangles? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Talk to biologists, climatologists and politicians, however, and the definition becomes more foggy and often self-serving. 'The Future History of the Arctic': a balanced look 2010-03-18T20:53:00Z The gap for me is that these award shows have become a self-serving forum for a bunch of overpaid, indulgent narcissists parading their egos and wealth. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z The right response has seemed to me to be to listen, read, reflect and quiet the impulse to offer opinions that are likely to sound premature or self-serving. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z But his comments about Gillis seemed theatrically naïve and self-serving, an attempt to reach working-class whites psychically wounded by automation. Andrew Yang and the Political Narratives of Asian-Americans 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The road this couple travels, from naïve visions of utopia to self-serving materialism, has been mapped many times before. Arts & Leisure: ‘Denial,’ ‘Bofors Gun’ and the London Revival of Rage 2012-06-17T00:00:31Z The ex-earthlings are now jumpsuit dumplings, enbubbled and strung out on video calls and streaming programs, drifting around that ship like appetizers on self-serving trays. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Those justifications turn out to be every bit as self-serving and false as the casual observer of human nature would automatically expect them to be. 'We're the bad guy': inside the shocking new film about wild fish 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Your narrator is fatuous and self-serving in the way of politicians “big and small,” as he himself acknowledges, but I suspect you also have something of a soft spot for him. Thomas McGuane on Small-Town America 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Not only is every character in Hawkins’s novel vile, self-serving, and narcissistic, even worse, they’re dull. Review | Paula Hawkins has a new thriller, and let’s just say it’s no ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z We can't trust them, when discussing such subjects, not to descend to self-serving demagogy. David Mitchell: I'm glad the asbo is going, but most rebranding is just a distraction 2011-02-13T00:05:37Z Some of his CBS compatriots considered it self-serving, but the book exposed the network’s cutthroat internal politics and settled more than a few old scores, particularly with the temperamental Rather. Edward M. Joyce, CBS News president in the 1980s, dies at 81 I’ve always really fought for her, especially early on, because she had seemed just to be a self-serving manipulator. Lena Headey on Playing Cersei on 'Game of Thrones:' 'I Admire Her' 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z It doesn't take much of a storyline shift for a cheery Lothario to be recast as a self-serving pesterer. Can 'Bonking Boris' have his cake and eat it? 2010-07-20T10:30:00Z But she, like all the women who interest Reacher, is as smart and methodical as he is, and he impresses her with his irrefutable, conveniently self-serving logic. Books of The Times: ‘A Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher Novel’ by Lee Child 2012-09-10T02:06:18Z It was an odd, self-serving interpretation of a movie that presents the captain as a monster needed by no one. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: When Trump goes to the movies 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Teigen's apologies have been criticized as supposedly self-serving attempt at stopping brands and sponsorships from dropping her, which could be true. Chrissy Teigen and the enduring, celebrity need to be relatable 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z He rarely does press, and certainly not in the usual self-serving fashion. The secret life of Jason Statham 2013-06-21T13:00:00Z All of these folks are self-serving and various degrees of terrible to each other and random bystanders. In its final mission "Archer" takes a hard look at whether this agent deserves to be called super 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z When you were preparing for the role, where did you find the heart in Lady Susan, beyond all of the self-serving manipulation? Kate Beckinsale on Her 'Early Feminist Fighter' in Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Gray, an elegant and affecting presence in “An Octoroon” and Ms. Chavkin’s production of “Natasha, Pierre,” here lacks the regal fury to convince as Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra, and his self-serving brother, Menelaus. Review: A Modern Makeover for ‘Iphigenia in Aulis’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z His reasoning — that there is something educational to be gained on the site — is a little self-serving, but his conclusion may not be entirely wrong. Motherlode Blog: Why Parents Lie to Let Kids Join Facebook 2011-11-03T15:33:34Z But it doesn’t just stop there: It tethers Mankiewicz’s nonexistent role in this disinformation campaign to his role in “Citizen Kane,” a fascinatingly self-serving flex. David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Prosecutors called the new statements about Murray's actions "a backdoor attempt to introduce the defendant's new, self-serving statements without being subject to cross-examination." Prosecutors say Jackson's doctor changed story 2011-04-19T00:11:09Z “Maybe it’s self-serving, but I think we are more open-minded and avant-garde than the voting membership, which tends to be more conservative or at least mainstream” in its taste. Hall of Fame Decides Who Rocks, Officially 2014-04-09T21:44:44Z I also think that in this country women are more marginalized as they get older, though maybe that’s self-serving.” In ?Walks With Men,? Ann Beattie Returns to the ?80s 2010-06-07T22:12:00Z First, it is no exaggeration to say that this statement may be the most self-serving pile of bombastic twaddle Silicon Valley has ever created. Column: AI investors say they'll go broke if they have to pay for copyrighted works. Don't believe it 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Though "AG's lawyers appear frustrated that Engoron has let Jr. go on in these self-serving infomercials that aren't responsive or relevant and have other evidentiary problems," tweeted former U.S. NY AG walks out amid "frustrations" that judge let Don Jr. turn testimony into "infomercial" 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z The old political button that read “Vote Republican: It’s Easier Than Thinking” isn’t even sarcastic in the age of voter suppression, book banning, Christian nationalism, and self-serving fake history. Joe Biden's economy is, honestly, pretty amazing: How come he doesn't get credit? 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Staffing levels have reached dangerous levels and the Police Department is in danger of falling apart due to the extreme views and self-serving policies of the City Council. I'm an SPD detective. Here's what matters to me in the 2023 election | Op-Ed 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Some of these people, many of whom are quite bright, say they believe only in “science” and the material world and that anything more is a self-serving fantasy. Halloween’s growing cultural footprint: What exactly are we celebrating? 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z McGowan's apparent remorse to social workers after his conviction was described by the judge as "a self-serving tissue of lies". Man who murdered new girlfriend jailed for 23 years 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z “That warning was probably as self-serving as it was guidance and counsel to Israel,” Mr. Schanzer said. Biden walks diplomatic tightrope with sympathy, cautions for Israel 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z However, their ruthlessly self-serving behaviour has the potential to bring down entire sectors in extreme cases. How to tell if your boss is a 'corporate psychopath' 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z How does one possibly reform such a top-heavy, self-serving, and dishonest institution along progressive lines? Beyond the right's "woke" slurs, what would a "progressive" U.S. military really look like? 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z “But the system has not changed, and the ideas they’re talking about to remedy these problems are not innovating. They’re just self-serving.” 'Ain't a damn thing changed.' Black L.A. skeptical a year after racist audio leak that roiled City Hall 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z McCarthy was criticized as being duplicitous and self-serving, but he believed he needed the loyalty of Trump and his followers to get him into the speaker’s chair. News Analysis: McCarthy's once formidable powers of persuasion couldn't stop a humiliating, historic defeat 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z In nations where democracy is eroding, the actors who control the state impose their self-serving narratives. Opinion: Struggles between Gustavo Petro and Colombia's media stir Latin American populism 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z The arrangement was self-serving to the company because it funneled money back to Disney, with the district footing the bill, according to board members. Disney World government will give employees stipend after backlash for taking away park passes 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z To the typically self-serving Republicans, it should be obvious their latest move is tantamount to political suicide. With shutdown looming, GOP's comic-book villains push America to the abyss 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z “It’s self-serving, selective outrage,” Jay Heck, director of Common Cause of Wisconsin, a nonpartisan government watchdog group, said of impeachment. Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates often speak out on hot topics. Only one faces impeachment threat 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z To combat ideology’s stranglehold on people’s thinking, we must condemn performances like the Republican debate’s climate cattle call for what they are: reckless and self-serving displays of ideology rejecting reality. Republican Presidential Candidates Vow to Fiddle as the Earth Burns 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z They claim the diminished figure he presents to his lawyers and medical experts is “an artfully constructed self-serving portrait.” Is Tom Girardi's dementia an act? Court to hear evidence 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The arrangement was self-serving to the company because it funneled money back to Disney, with the district footing the bill, the release said. Free Disney World passes is latest front in war between Disney and DeSantis appointees 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z Newlander said it’s self-serving for carmakers to argue that people don’t need a spare. Why your new electric car won't have a spare tire. And why you probably don't need one 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z This initial reaction was followed by another, less self-serving notion, one more about the well-being of my audiences. Are performers gathering audiences or targets? | Op-Ed 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Jones sees it as a more self-serving tactic. Bryan Kohberger’s attempt to dismiss indictment an ‘uphill battle,’ experts say 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The defense portrayed Hussain as a self-serving manipulator who was trying to please the government after his own, unrelated fraud conviction. Judge questions FBI’s role in post-9/11 sting and orders 3 of ‘Newburgh Four’ freed from prison 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Modi’s party has dismissed the alliance as a grouping of “self-serving, corrupt, dynastic parties.” An alliance of Indian opposition parties — called INDIA — joins forces to take on Modi 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z My motivations for participating in both were altruistic and self-serving. Opinion: I'm a tenant in the mass eviction at Barrington Plaza. This developer decision could devastate L.A. 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z “China and Russia have a history of rejecting the West’s call for space norms and limits while putting forward their own self-serving versions,” the report said. Report: Space Force urgently needs counterspace weapons to deter war with China 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z In an interview with The Associated Press, the accused shooter said, “I have to take responsibility for what happened” — language that struck some survivors as a self-serving evasion. After the Club Q Shooting, Questions of Money and Justice for Victims 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z The media and political establishment are so duplicitous and shamelessly self-serving that they have not just destroyed the credibility of their precious COVID-19 “vaccine.” Trump vs. Kennedy 2024: Party crashers steal the limelight in historic political showdown 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Trump is actually in a weakened state but these GOP leaders have absorbed the self-serving Trump crusade against the "deep state." Trump's defenders suddenly caught up in the corruption 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z His motives are always self-serving and often just plain dumb but you never know if he's in it for money or influence or something worse. The legal dominoes finally start to fall against Trump 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Tuesday launched his 2024 presidential campaign by presenting himself as the only candidate in the growing Republican field willing to go toe-to-toe with the "self-serving" front-runner, Donald Trump. Saudi crown prince, US Secretary of State discuss bilateral ties 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Tuesday launched his 2024 presidential campaign by presenting himself as the only candidate in the growing Republican field willing to go toe-to-toe with the "self-serving" front-runner, Donald Trump. Russian forces repeatedly shell ammonia pipeline in Ukraine's Kharkiv region -governor 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z There is no single cause for this cognitive bias; the availability heuristic, self-serving bias, and naïve realism have been suggested as at least partial underlying factors. The women of MAGA remain a mystery 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Trump is actually in a weakened state but these GOP leaders have absorbed the self-serving Trump crusade against the "deep state." Trump's defenders suddenly caught up in the corruption 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Icahn has pushed back against Hindenburg, with the billionaire calling the firm’s report “self-serving” and “intended solely to generate profits on Hindenburg’s short position at the expense of IEP’s long-term unitholders.” Icahn Enterprises continues to tumble following Hindenburg short report, Bill Ackman’s responses 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Icahn has called Hindenburg's report "self-serving" and reiterated his defense of the company. Ackman calls out Icahn's IEP over high premium after Hindenburg report 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z This dislocates or untethers us from official narratives, which then makes governments more susceptible to corrupt and self-serving behavior, and citizens more prone to mistrust and improbable beliefs. How do we know what is true? In an age of war, pandemic and conspiracy theory, it's not easy 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z That explanation was, obviously, not just self-serving but inaccurate. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z They must accept, without any self-serving caveat, that any use of a nuclear weapon, by any state, under any circumstances, would be “an act of hostility against humanity and unjustifiable in any way.” At Hiroshima, Leaders Should Choose to End All Nuclear Threats 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Icahn called the report "self-serving" and vowed to take all appropriate steps to "fight back". Hindenburg shorts Icahn Enterprises bonds as battle with billionaire heats up 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, Mr. Icahn issued a response to Hindenburg’s report on his firm, calling it “misleading and self-serving.” Carl Icahn’s Firm Faces Federal Inquiry 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Icahn, who earlier this week called Hindenburg's report "self-serving" and said IEP stands by its disclosures, did not respond to a request for comment. Analysis: Icahn's mark-up of meat packager extraordinary but possible, experts say 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z I’d pay for a self-defense class, but I’m afraid that might seem too self-serving and controlling … and it might not assuage my fears. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Spouse fears for wife’s safety on nights out with friends 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z "It remains to be seen whether the self-serving interests of the medical and legal professions continues, or if the truth is told in the interests of justice," she said. Hyponatraemia inquest an opportunity for the truth, mother says 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z They tend to embrace the idea that foreign policy has been hijacked by a disconnected and self-serving elite, an argument that also frames DeSantis’s crusades against liberal social issues. DeSantis critical of China, hazy on Ukraine as he charts foreign policy path 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Rep. Patrick McHenry, the GOP chairperson of the House Financial Services Committee, called the report “self-serving” in a statement Friday. After SVB failure, Fed seeks broad changes to bank rules 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Hunter Biden is such a stingy, wheedling, dishonest, self-serving dirtbag that even after the court-ordered paternity test proved the child was his, he refuses to acknowledge his own biological daughter. Joe Biden channeling a Jerry Springer presidency 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Tacopina has suggested that Carrol waited decades before bringing these charges against Trump for self-serving reasons like fame, money and political hostility. Former prosecutor: Opening argument suggests Carroll’s “case will be powerful” 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The cost of this self-serving fantasy, though, would be any fleeting claim that the United States government has legitimacy in the first place. Connecting Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump: Tied together by a mutual worship of corrupt power 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The lawsuit, filed in a Florida federal court, also accuses Cohen of making "improper, self-serving, and malicious statements about his former client, his family members, and his business". Trump sues former lawyer Michael Cohen for $500m 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Schumer, a Democrat, said he would offer a Senate resolution rejecting Trump’s move, calling it a “a baseless, self-serving broadside against the men and women who keep our nation safe.” Senate Majority Leader rejects Trump's call to defund FBI, Justice 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Egged on by self-serving leaders, the crowd asked Pilate to release an insurrectionist instead. Higher Ground: If Jesus on the cross can forgive, so can we 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z But this cleverly conceived production functions as more of a group-therapy session, presented through the lens of Ogawa’s specific experience, than anything self-serving. Review | ‘The Nosebleed’ turns playwright’s introspection into communal catharsis 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Should we consider him a good man who spent a lifetime fighting effectively for marginalized and needy constituents in neglected neighborhoods, or a self-serving, bribe-taking pol who abused his power for his own personal gain? Opinion: Is Mark Ridley-Thomas saint or sinner? Or is there a third choice? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z There’s a reason certain athletes are revered for their demeanor on and off the courts and fields of play, and it’s not because they indulge in self-serving boorish behavior. Letters: Taunting in women's sports sparks a strong reaction from readers 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Of course, Trump's lawyers had already announced that he would voluntarily appear for the arraignment so it was just a bit self-serving — but that says something in itself. Indicted Trump: Too irresistible for GOP 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The committee’s letter also pointed to self-serving motives, citing an email it said was sent by one organ procurement employee to another. Lawmakers probe whether organ procurers are ‘gaming the system' 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z She has cowed everyone into meekly enduring her tirades and ludicrous self-serving rhetoric. Advice | Work Advice: Dealing with a toxic ‘girlboss’ might require moving on 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Rather, they are designed by humans and thus reflect and communicate the various biases, values and self-serving interests of their creators. Who's afraid of ChatGPT?: In the real world, teachers have little to fear 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z There is also Courteney Cox returning as the self-serving reporter Gale Weathers who has written a book giving credence to online conspiracies that it was Sam who was behind the killings in the last film. ‘Scream VI’ review: Ghostface slashes through this serviceable sequel 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The president has rejected that accusation, saying his moves were legal and necessary to save Tunisia from years of chaos at the hands of a corrupt, self-serving political elite. Tunisian president to dissolve municipal councils months before local elections 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Listen to the harrowing brays of the donkey in Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” a satire in which the obnoxious, self-serving guests of a luxury cruise end up stranded on a desert island. Analysis | It’s a tough year to be a donkey in an Oscar-nominated film 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Dear Amy: You told “An Old-Fashioned Grand” that you have a Post-it over your desk saying, “Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.” Advice | Ask Amy: My friend held on to a check that belonged to me for a month 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z You may think he’s just another billionaire who eventually will accept terms in a rational self-serving negotiation. Perspective | The NFL deserves every bit of its raging Daniel Snyder headache 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z “Their shameful silence comes at a time when anti-Asian hate continues to threaten communities and Republicans continue to weaponize dangerous misinformation for self-serving power,” the committee said in a statement. GOP congressman questions her 'loyalty.' Rep. Chu, House Democrats blast 'racist' rhetoric 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z “The Onion’s writers also have a self-serving interest in preventing political authorities from imprisoning humorists,” the site’s lawyers wrote in a brief filed in October. Justices reject appeal from man arrested for spoofing police 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Although one’s heart naturally goes out to anyone in need, Miss Manners finds her sympathy limited because of your friend’s self-serving misuse of both English and etiquette. Advice | Miss Manners: I donated in exchange for a gift, but I haven’t received it 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The dog that flailing tail is trying to shake is the grand jury's search for truth about a self-serving president's apparent attempt to overturn the election and thus the Constitution. Mike Pence wags the dog: His attempt to avoid testifying is constitutional nonsense 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “I like the excitement he can bring to a room — the politics are important to get us more resources. But I deeply dislike that the showmanship seems self-serving.” He's bold, camera ready and loves Twitter, but has L.A.'s schools chief uplifted students? 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z "So it's a rather meaningless, self-serving messaging… It doesn't help the public make good, informed decisions." Gambling: Government expected to tighten regulation on sector 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z There are plenty of examples of city leaders writing bad or self-serving charter amendments in the name of governance reform. Editorial: Not a 'power grab.' State lawmakers' can help keep L.A. on the path of meaningful reform 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Old-Fashioned: I have a Post-it over my desk saying, “Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.” Advice | Ask Amy: Wife wants to pretend that she didn’t accuse spouse of infidelity 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z He says that we owe him an apology, but we think he’s being his usual selfish, self-serving and perpetual-victim self. Advice | Ask Amy: My cheating father tried to attend my mom’s funeral 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Republican Gov. Mike Parson denied a clemency request on Monday, dismissing Taylor’s “self-serving claim of innocence.” Attorneys, advocates seek stay of execution for Missouri man 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z DeSantis' assault on public education and his thought crime agenda reflects a larger dynamic where today's Republicans and "conservatives" believe that dogma and self-serving myths are the same as empirical reality and facts. Sorry, Ron DeSantis, Black conservatives can't replace CRT 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Hackneyed, misleading, self-serving and dull, the annual address should be put out of its misery — and ours. Opinion | Please, Biden, do us all a favor: Skip the State of the Union speech 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The group has called the effort “an inappropriate, self-serving intervention dressed up in noble rhetoric.” Joe Biden set to encounter ‘Don’t Run Joe’ protests at DNC’s annual meeting 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Congress, seen as corrupt and self-serving, has an approval rating of just 7%, according to a January survey by local pollster IEP. Explainer: Why are there protests in Peru and what comes next? 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Unburdening yourself of what you want to say — no matter how kind or loving your message — is actually self-serving. Advice | Ask Sahaj: My daughter wants to limit contact but I keep texting her 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Phil performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at Walt Disney Concert Hall was one of the all-time great and least self-serving Mahler performances. Commentary: Oscar nominee 'Tár' brought conducting into the spotlight. That's not good for classical music 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z But if we rub the headlines out of our eyes for a moment, we will see the machinations of breathtaking, self-serving hypocrisy at work. Opinion | Those who would throw us on the glittering fire 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z But because the couple is controlling and profiting from their own story, they are seen are as disloyal, exploitative, self-serving. It's a blast watching Harry and Meghan beat the press at its own game 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z "This kind of self-serving behavior is why many Americans have lost faith in politics," Eldridge told Common Dreams. "I think it's fantastic": George Santos is very happy the GOP just voted to gut ethics office 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z But they were also politicians, self-serving and ambitious, often well-born mediocrities flying high above their general level of talent. Perspective | Learning an old lesson from the Tudors: Grifters gonna grift 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z It goes further than plain old hypocrisy and into the psychology of the right, especially the self-serving tale of their own alleged victimhood. Elon Musk's censorship spree exposes the fundamental flaw in the right's definition of "free speech" 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Activists pushing him to get gone, and De León refusing for the most self-serving and nonsensical of reasons. Column: Even if Kevin de León won't resign, activists have a plan. 'We're never letting this go.' 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Seen as corrupt and self-serving, the parliament has an approval rating of only 11%, according to pollster Datum. Peru's 'forgotten people' rage against political elite after Castillo arrest 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z He was not in this position for any self-serving purpose. Opinion | Navy was wrong to fire its football coach 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Musk has also, unsurprisingly, has played a major and self-serving role in propping up the crypto illusion. Cryptocurrency was always a scam — powered by white male privilege 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z It's the ultimate monument to all of the Americans who have given their lives to defeat self-serving despots that abused their power and trampled on fundamental rights. GOP silence on Trump's call to cancel Constitution shows "full embrace of fascism," warns House Dem 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z He elucidates the conflicting ways we perceive reality, exacerbated in war, and how each of us comes to our own peculiar and self-serving truths. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Whether that’s deliberate, I don’t know, but it’s a common, self-serving misinterpretation of what a boundary is — mistaking “what I want” for “what you have to do.” Advice | Carolyn Hax: Wife’s ‘boundaries’ with teen son feel controlling 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z But they also struck a blow against a subtler self-serving theory undermining faith in democracy from the left — that the electoral system itself suffers from a crisis-level “structural” bias against Democrats. Opinion | The midterms have busted the myth of conservative ‘minority rule’ 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Frosh’s office suggested that the church’s financial backing of the litigants was more self-serving than the archdiocese was letting on. Baltimore archdiocese is funding attorneys seeking to seal abuse proceedings 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Other organizers accused their fellow protesters of more self-serving motives. Trudeau to Testify About Invoking Emergencies Act During Trucker Protest 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z “Generation Z is going to get rid of them,” Tiffany said, speaking of the politicians who believe their self-serving worship of the 2nd Amendment is more important than our children. Column: Three years after being shot at school, this teen has made our survival her fight 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Patrick Deneen's forthcoming book calls for replacing "the self-serving liberal elite" with a "new elite devoted to a 'pre-postmodern conservatism'" aligned with working-class interests. The postliberal crackup: The GOP’s post-midterm civil war starts with the New Right 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z His reluctance to acknowledge the legitimacy of Biden’s victory makes his self-serving invocations of fidelity and patriotism ring hollow. Review | Mike Pence highlights his heroic hour, and sidesteps the rest 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z “The humility in the way he approaches things, the fact that he doesn’t come across as self-serving, he thinks about the greater good, all of those things are going to serve him well,” Núñez said. Alex Padilla made history with his U.S. Senate win. What it means for Latinos 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z So ignore self-serving wannabe powerbrokers among the Democrats. Opinion | Democrats learn the hard way: Internecine warfare is the deadliest 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Socially conservative, the headstrong president has built his power base on higher welfare spending, state control of natural resources and expanding the role of the armed forces, while pillorying critics as corrupt and self-serving. Mexico succession puts scientist on path to be first woman president 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Putin’s political philosophy, like his understanding of history, is entirely self-serving and nothing more. Op-Ed: If democracy is a corrupt 'Western' concept, why does Putin pretend his actions in Ukraine are democratic? 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z This year, Republicans have zeroed in on Mr. Warnock’s professional relationship to Ebenezer by using the $7,400 monthly housing allowance he receives from the church to paint him as a self-serving politician. The Senator-Pastor From Georgia Mixes Politics and Preaching on the Trail 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z He apologized in court last year after pleading guilty to the murders and attempted murders — but families told reporters they found the apology self-serving and aimed at garnering sympathy. Families get final say before Parkland shooter is sentenced 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z But long on martyrdom, delusions of grandeur and self-serving spin, spoken in breathy tones fit for the funeral that is De León’s political career. Column: Kevin de León is on an apology tour. When will he realize it's a farewell tour? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z "They seem to live in a bubble of their own self-serving interests and they don't seem to understand how it affects ordinary people," nurse Amanda Morley told me. Liz Truss: Tories must stop 'squabbling like schoolchildren,' voters say 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z As much as Trump's latest self-serving crazy makes for good late-night comedy fodder, it also reminds us how much absurdity the U.S. government has created in national security litigation. Trump can't declassify documents with his mind — but the whole system is badly broken 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z While Becerra’s statement was largely self-serving, he was correct in stating that the federal government’s capacity to respond to a pandemic depends, in large measure, on the cooperation of the states, territories, and tribal authorities. Fights between U.S. States and the National Government Are Endangering Public Health 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z A broken man, at the prodding of family and his own better nature, became a better husband and father — and even a better actor, according to conventional wisdom and self-serving directors. Review | What Paul Newman wanted us to know about him — or perhaps didn’t 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Obviously, Trump's Big Lie is, for him, a self-serving narrative, just like everything else in his life. Why Marjorie Taylor Greene is becoming “the most powerful woman” in Trump's GOP 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z "The Referral Decision incorrectly relies on self-serving statements by Sony which significantly exaggerate the importance of 'Call of Duty' to it and neglect to account for Sony's clear ability to competitively respond," Microsoft said. Microsoft says UK influenced by Sony in probing Activision Blizzard deal 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Verma denied any wrongdoing in a statement and said there were “self-serving agendas at play.” Allegations against vice chair deepen Montgomery Planning Board controversy 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Mike Bonin reminded us that his colleagues’ petty, self-serving schemes have insulted a metropolis. Bass, Caruso focus on how to bridge L.A.'s racial divides in mayoral debate 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Bonin did all of that — a gay dad reminding us that his colleagues’ petty, self-serving schemes had insulted a metropolis that, at its best, takes pride in its diversity. Column: Bonin's tearful speech was the best thing to come out of L.A. City Hall in ages 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z But it’s this nation’s hodgepodge of self-serving public policies that has increasingly made climate change a driver of inequity. Column: California wildfires to Florida hurricanes, how the rich game climate change 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z “As the globe’s premier parodists, The Onion’s writers also have a self-serving interest in preventing political authorities from imprisoning humorists,” lawyers for the Onion wrote in a brief filed Monday. The Onion and the Supreme Court. Not a parody 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z “Miller offers no evidence aside from a self-serving affidavit,” lawyers for the state wrote. Alabama asks court to let it carry out lethal injection 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z It wasn’t so much that the embassy’s message was self-serving — every diplomat must believe his or her country is the best in the world — it’s that it seemed impossible. Perspective | Estonia claims to have not four seasons, but five. What’s the deal? 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z One, for example, writes that "EA spending is often perceived as wasteful and self-serving," thus creating "a problematic image which could lead to external criticism, outreach issues, and selection effects." Selling "longtermism": How PR and marketing drive a controversial new movement 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s a self-serving claim, but there’s some truth in it: Consistent grooming improves hygiene and means Fido will be inspected periodically by someone who sees a lot of dogs and can spot potential health problems. How to find a best-in-show pet grooming service 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Their responses — proclamations from chief executives, anti-bias trainings, diversity initiatives, ad campaigns — were sincere and searching or self-serving and performative or some of both. Daring to Speak Up About Race in a Divided School District 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z But critics called it a self-serving deal between elites. Kenya’s Supreme Court Upholds Presidential Election Results 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Instead, his motives appear entirely opportunistic and self-serving. Trump just blew up his main January 6 defense on Truth Social 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z It is an odd choice to pin one’s identity to a self-serving and corrupt group that stands atop a brutal historical record. Opinion | Why Xi’s ‘united front’ is vital to the artificial concept of a ‘Chinese nation’ 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Others note the self-serving nature of former colleagues’ efforts, but not their own. Settling scores or telling truths? Trump-era memoirs reveal covid chaos. 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z All memoirs are self-serving — it’s just a matter of degree. Review | Jared Kushner’s memoir is only inadvertently revealing 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z There is dark speculation that Trump planned to use the information in those documents for his own self-serving purposes. Many theories on Trump’s secret files, but not yet one to rule them all 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z He’s more asserting that Twitter is calculating its user numbers in a self-serving, disingenuous way. Twitter is a mess — but in the Elon Musk trial, it might not matter 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z But in their motion, the defense said prosecutors are self-serving with that request, stacking the deck so Murdaugh can’t get a fair, speedy trial to clear his name. Showdown over evidence, leaks looming in Alex Murdaugh case 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z To the indebted farmers, the situation in the 1780s seemed hauntingly familiar; the revolutionaries had routed the British, but a new form of seemingly corrupt and self-serving government had replaced them. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Harnessing self-serving instincts to make the bureaucracy work the way it was intended is a constant task for elected officials. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Access to them is on a need-to-know basis for what is in a specific document, not on curiosity or a self-serving whim. Opinion | Declassifying documents isn’t easy 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z “I think they’re one of the most self-serving things that Corporate America does, instead of investing in workers and training and research and equipment.” Companies facing first tax on stock buybacks in Biden bill 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z “I think they are one of the most self-serving things that corporate America does.” Stock Buybacks and Dividends Become a $1.5 Trillion Political Target 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z “This is a vindictive and self-serving fishing expedition,” Mr. Trump said in a statement. Trump pleads the 5th Amendment in New York attorney general’s probe 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z The Fire Department determined that his actions were a self-serving “attempt to cover up his role in the reported misuse of the photos,” the judge said at a recent hearing. Sheriff's department under fire as trial starts over Kobe Bryant crash photos 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The theological writings he was drawn to emphasized predestination, and he thought his self-serving attempt to avoid earthly persecution was clear evidence he was going to hell. Review | History’s famous delusions, those who believed them — and why 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z You and Miss Manners understand that his position on gifts is immature, pedestrian and self-serving — not to mention confusing, as most business students at least tolerate commerce. Perspective | Miss Manners: I’m not sure my daughter’s boyfriend is the one 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z That is a rather self-serving argument from a party that is desperate to get back in to power. China-Taiwan: Why young people in Taiwan are learning to fight 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Of course, anyone who was paying attention during Trump’s second impeachment trial knew that his lawyers’ self-serving depiction of Trump as alarmed by the insurrection was full of it. Opinion | Now we know the truth on what Trump sought to obscure about Jan. 6 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z The White House issued a statement, saying there was “clearly no substance to this statement from an ex, this is unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise.” Ivana Trump, first wife of Donald Trump, dies at 73 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The Democratic contenders and their allies have cast Mr. Johnson as a divisive, self-serving millionaire whose questioning of the 2020 election results, suspicions about coronavirus cures and pro-life stance make him dangerous. From tea party firebrand to Trump loyalist: Ron Johnson still running on battling Washington elites 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z "None of the Tories waiting in line to take Johnson's place are fit to lead a government; they are self-serving elites who have treated people in need with contempt for years." Boris Johnson resigns: NI politicians and organisations react to PM's departure 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z "Unsubstantiated, shrill, partisan, self-serving, apocalyptic warnings are always wrong," a slide showed as part of the presentation said. HSBC banker quits after 'nut job' climate speech 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z "Sleaze, corruption, inadequate and self-serving. He's a lying toe rag. They're all tarred with the same brush, the sooner we have an election the better." Boris Johnson: People in Wales react to resignation 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “I felt it was very selfish and self-serving of her to do something like that,” said Byrne, 62, an accountant who has lived in WeHo for more than two decades. Seeking higher office, WeHo councilwoman scrubs WeHo from her bio 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z In asserting that it was simply following statutory text, the majority applied an inconsistent, self-serving textualism. Opinion | This was the term the Supreme Court decided to ignore the speed bumps 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z Some developing nations, themselves former victims of western colonialism, see western complaints about Ukraine as self-serving and are more concerned at the impact of soaring food prices on their populations. G7 commits $5 bln to tackling global food insecurity - U.S. official 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z I have a Post-it note over my computer that says, “All unsolicited advice is self-serving.” Perspective | Ask Amy: Angry grandma struggles with grandchild’s snippy response 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z “This primary,” he said, “has got to purge the Republican Party of those who are self-serving snollygosters.” MAGA Voters Send a $50 Million G.O.P. Plan Off the Rails in Illinois 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Gordon’s attorney, Ryan Wheeler, said last month that “the only investigation that matters in this case was the one conducted by the Hamilton County DA’s office, which cleared my client,” calling the police probe “self-serving.” Charges dropped for Black man stunned by cop in traffic stop 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z In a 2020 article for the Journal of Applied Psychology, researchers found that employees could discern if their managers were being humble for self-serving reasons or out of genuine empathy. From Cersei to Trump, why it's unwise and counterproductive to be "braggadocious" 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z It was rejected by Towfiq’s and Nakahara’s attorney, who called it self-serving given how poorly the trial was going for the billionaire couple. The feud over Bill Gross' lawn sculpture has come to an end. There were no winners 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z But I don’t see why it should be dismissed as insincere or self-serving. Cynical Republicans want to know: What’s Liz Cheney getting out of this? 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z It was a pompous, self-serving declaration that was also total nonsense. Accomplices to a coup: Trump's lackeys must be held to account for the Big Lie 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z “He’s shown Nevadans time and again that he only cares about pushing his own self-serving agenda, which is why voters will reject him in 2022,” said Patrick Burgwinkle, spokesperson for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in “perilous” re-election position 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Trump largely ignored "Stop the Spread," which was the slogan devised by the task force, but refashioned it as his self-serving Big Lie: "Stop the Steal." How many people died because Trump mocked mask-wearing? We'll never know 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Still Patterson said the clash could backfire, alienating otherwise potentially sympathetic swing voters who might think O’Rourke was putting on a self-serving show. O’Rourke bets shooting will shake up Texas governor’s race 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Cynicism — in this case, the belief that nearly all elected officials are dishonest and self-serving — is associated, according to fivethirtyeight.com, with support for extremist, outsider candidates who are likely to break taboos and weaken democratic institutions. Cynical Republicans want to know: What’s Liz Cheney getting out of this? 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Philip Shulman, a spokesman for the Democratic Party, told the Journal Sentinel that Johnson's reimbursements are inappropriate and fall in line with his "self-serving agenda." Ron Johnson used taxpayer money to travel between D.C. and his Florida vacation home: report 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z "The extent of reduced amygdala sensitivity to dishonesty on a present decision relative to the previous one predicts the magnitude of escalation of self-serving dishonesty on the next decision." Sociopaths rejoice: Few can tell when you're being fake, study says 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z But it also highlights a recurring figure in Haitian history: the self-serving member of Haitian society who prospers as his country suffers. How a French Bank Captured Haiti 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z It’s a reminder of the self-serving, self-mythologizing function of all memoirs. Review | In Hernan Diaz’s ‘Trust,’ the rich are not like you and me 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Little quickly rescinded the order and decried her actions as an “irresponsible, self-serving political stunt.” Idaho Gov. Brad Little faces Trump-backed candidate Janice McGeachin in GOP primary 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Saied says his moves are legal and are needed to save Tunisia from years of political and economic stagnation at the hands of a corrupt, self-serving elite. Tunisian opposition figure says he is under investigation 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Saied has said his actions were needed to save Tunisia from years of economic stagnation and political paralysis at the hands of a corrupt, self-serving elite. Tunisian president's backers rally to demand clampdown on opposition 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z He wrote about describing unions to workers “as a self-serving outsider,” while presenting management as “humble, caring, righteous” and warning that union activities would “ruin the company and jeopardize jobs.” Column: Why Starbucks has become a huge unionization target — and why the company is in a panic 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Superior Court judge Friday ordered Palmer detained and set a court date for May 5, after a prosecutor called Palmer’s statements “self-serving.” Woman critically injured after fall from D.C. apartment building 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z It has revealed a case against Musk that is, for the most part, specious and self-serving. Opinion | Who’s afraid of Elon Musk? 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z “It’s a very self-serving effort by the S.E.C. to avoid criticism,” he said. Can the S.E.C. Require ‘Gag Orders’ When It Settles Cases? 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z But Russia’s continued violation of the most basic principles of international law and human rights — and the Ukrainian people’s dire needs — must count for more than its self-serving rhetoric. Opinion | $100 Billion. Russia’s Treasure in the U.S. Should Be Turned Against Putin. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “There is a line between healthy skepticism required to hold public institutions accountable and outright self-serving, special-interest cynicism designed to advance ulterior motives,” he wrote. Paul Huntsman saved a newspaper — then launched an investigation of his brother’s rival 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did an excellent taxonomy of the selfishness of Smith’s explosion against Chris Rock and the aftershock, including his “tearful, self-serving acceptance speech” in which Smith exploited the women he claimed he was protecting. Opinion | Going After That Pound of Flesh 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z The argument against him, stripped of its self-serving adornments, seems primarily concerned with keeping the system closed. Opinion | Who’s afraid of Elon Musk? 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z They said it doesn’t make sense to use the Trump team’s self-serving claims as a basis for evaluating differences. Biden got 255,000 ‘excess’ votes in fraud-tainted swing states in 2020, study finds 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Her view is a common, self-serving distortion of emotional basics. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Wife says it’s not her fault if she hurts his feelings 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z They literally missed the easy layup and exposed themselves as self-serving empty suits. Opinion | The poor optics at the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z "They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald J. Trump." Trump sues Hillary Clinton for tying him to Russia 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The sly genius of “Întregalde” is how readily its characters — who can be cruel and decent, self-serving and well-meaning, often in the same instance — encourage the viewer to take their own moral inventory. Review: In the brilliant Romanian drama ‘Întregalde,’ no good deed goes unexamined 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s a tossup, at times, which side of the law is less admirable or more self-serving, as lines between good and evil blur in this turbulent drug arena. The 75 best TV shows on HBO Max right now, according to our experts 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The world now sees that the CCP’s claimed impartiality and commitment to sovereignty are a shameless, self-serving charade. Opinion | China is complicit in Russia’s war on Ukraine 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z But I often think that faith in God can be just as self-serving as staring at yourself in a mirror. Opinion | Why the decline in church attendance won’t end here 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z He says his intervention was a response to a decade of political and economic stagnation at the hands of a corrupt, self-serving elite. Tunisian questionnaire on constitution is met with a nationwide shrug 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z “This case shows,” Dernoga said, “that a small group of self-serving politicians can’t just ignore state law or the county charter.” In final blow to Pr. George’s council, Maryland Court of Appeals affirms ruling on redistricting 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z He did mention foreign policy but it was typically shallow and self-serving. With bizarre rant, Trump offers a sneak peek into his second term 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Well, he made a point all right: He showed how destructive and self-serving it has been for politicians like himself to politicize masking and vaccine requirements. Opinion | Have Zelensky (and Putin) created a come-to-democracy moment? That’s up to us. 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z When their mistakes include long-standing, self-serving whoppers that involve the denial of the existence of a person he helped create, however, it does make them undeserving of trust. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend just admitted he’s married and has a son. Now what? 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z His writing elsewhere veers from straightforward to overwrought, from reflective to overwhelmingly self-serving. Review | How to read Vladimir Putin 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z In some areas, festivals were put on to popularize Russian culture, Russian national songs were played on Syrian television, self-serving propaganda was churned out and hot meals were served to civilians. Russia’s Syria intervention provided hints for Ukraine war 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Others see self-serving, if not cynical, poses of conscience struck in hopes of avoiding the crosshairs of sanctions. Ukraine invasion opens faint, but once unthinkable, fissures between Putin and Russian oligarchs 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Alex portrayed Lepere’s account as absurd and self-serving, at odds with common sense and what was known of the victim’s character. DNA leads to murder conviction in 1980 killing of 79-year-old Anaheim woman 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z “He loved to expose the self-serving motivations of people in power, and to explain to readers how Washington really worked. So often it came down to patronage and money.” Martin Tolchin, veteran political journalist who co-founded the Hill, dies at 93 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The two major political parties enjoy too much power to draw self-serving maps, and long have. Don’t settle for weak redistricting reforms 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z “These tech giants’ self-serving appeals to privacy and security fall apart on even passing scrutiny,” he said in a statement to The Post. Apple avoided the Washington techlash for years. Now it’s at the center of the bull’s eye. 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z A whistleblower who heard about Trump’s self-serving shakedown of Zelensky filed a report, which set in motion a series of events that led to the security aid being unfrozen and the House launching an investigation. Opinion | Russia’s looming invasion of Ukraine shows why Trump’s first impeachment was necessary and proper 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z She could respond with, “You could have said no” — which would be idiotic and self-serving and, alas, true. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sister nags her way into baby shower in person, then tests positive for covid 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z In one sense, what Chevron is doing by creating a quote-unquote “newsroom” to produce self-serving commercials is merely surfing along the crest of a wave. Column: Chevron builds a 'newsroom' to tell stories it doesn't think an independent press will cover 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Acknowledging that the idea is apparently unattainable is significant, even if it’s self-serving for Biden as an explanation for the failures of his larger agenda and a preview of 2022 campaign arguments. Analysis | 5 takeaways from the Biden news conference 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z On the contrary, such voters tend to be the first to ascribe cynical and self-serving motives to political speech, and see such sentiments as empty rhetoric — if they aren't backed up by action. Why voters don't blame Republicans for the Capitol riot — no GOP leaders have been arrested yet 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z This is not quite a universal question — the Premier League, in its great and in no way self-serving wisdom, has remained wedded to three substitutions throughout the pandemic — but it is not far off. Manchester City, Chelsea and Competing With Perfection 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Security Council to describe and denounce it as such — and dare Moscow to make its self-serving arguments in that forum. Opinion | Time is running out to stop Russian aggression in Ukraine 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z But Kroger contends the union is “reckless and self-serving,” accusing union officials of acting “without regard for the implications to associates and Coloradans,” in a news release Wednesday. Thousands of grocery workers on strike in Colorado over wages and security 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Inflamed by their fetid stench of self-righteous, self-serving, self-inflicted pain, the insurrection burst like an infected national boil. I was there for the day that poisoned America — and I think we can still recover 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z In a statement, Keller’s criminal defense attorney, Edward B. MacMahon Jr., denied the allegations by Keller’s ex-wife as “one-sided and self-serving pleadings and statements.” Inside Klete Keller’s fall from Olympic gold to the Capitol riot 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z “He’s been in Congress for over 40 years and is the quintessential self-serving politician that is too entrenched in the establishment,” said Mr. Crispi. Millennial talk show host plans Trump-style primary campaign against 40-year House Republican 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z I have a quote scrawled on a Post-it note over my desk: “Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.” Perspective | Ask Amy: I am fed up with how family treats my stepson 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z |
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