Sentences with phrase «on egotism»

Today we are experiencing the collapse of a social system based on egotism both in the East and in the West.

Not exact matches

In fact, Niebuhr taught that the egotism of the individual only becomes more powerful when collected into a group, to the extent that an individual's egotistical will - to - live takes on the more evil will - to - power, that is, coercion becomes the modus - operendi of the group.

Young people in particular often visualize their moral problem in some such way as this: on the one side is the ideal life with its purity, its self - forgetfulness, its fine awareness of things invisible, and on the other side are the primitive instincts — pugnacity, egotism, sensuality, the caveman within, and between these two there is an irreconcilable hostility.

The seventh stage is reached by those who keep on progressing, leaving behind all egotism, pretensions, or even claims to have reached a perfect stage.

One might say that we shall commit the sin of racial egotism, even if we are delivered from the sin of individual egotism — although for my own part, I would think that the two are very closely related if they are not, indeed, different expressions of the same sinful pride on man's part.

I feel so torn because I want to learn scripture but I can't find a church that focuses on the bible but isn't also full of hate and egotism.

In a lecture on «the unification of Europe,» Zweig proposes a series of conferences in various European capital cities as a way to combat the «sacro - egotism» of nationalism.

That unsharable feeling which each one of us has of the pinch of his individual destiny as he privately feels it rolling out on fortune's wheel may be disparaged for its egotism, may be sneered at as unscientific, but it is the one thing that fills up the measure of our concrete actuality, and any would - be existent that should lack such a feeling, or its analogue, would be a piece of reality only half made up.

On the evidence of the last week the Tories have decided that what the people want is a toxic mix of egotism and ineptitude.

Your self - confidence should exude warmth and approachability, on the other hand, not egotism and vanity.There's no point in mere complaining and thinking if things could be different.

But the comedy suffers for the egotism or love of the subject, depending on whether you believe McCarthy or Falcone is the driving creative influence on the film.

Generally, when Hollywood is shown on screen, for example in A Star Is Born and The Bad and the Beautiful or, more recently, in The Artist, it is depicted as a hotbed of viciousness, egotism and backstabbing.

The actual movie - making scenes in The Disaster Artist are remarkable examples of how egotism functions on a movie set — meaning, they're funny until they start to feel dangerous.

That may reek of desperation, or egotism, depending on how you look at it, but if a director doesn't even like the movie he's making, then he's going to have a hard time convincing audiences to pay money to see it.

But since grandiose stunting earns reputation points (shortened to «rep»), which is used to secure a place on the leaderboards, danger is driven by your own sense of egotism, rather than anything the game forces on you.

Their mesmerizing grids, in particular from the 1970s, emphasize the concern to eliminate egotism, in contradistinction to many artists of the time who rather focused on the individual.

timely responses to communications by email and telephone timely production of documents especially medical counsel for plaintiffs advising their clients about early settlement and realistic expectations counsel for defendants advising their clients to attend mediations with sufficient settlement authority expertise in a particular area of law posturing and egotism on both sides claims for punitive damages where none are warranted under law preparation for significant events such as examinations for discovery and motions accountability for the consequences of steps taken or delayed unnecessary or defensive crossclaims and third party claims by defence counsel regional differences (some local bars are more collegial than others)

This week's news carried two items on what Above the Law's David Lat terms «irrational law firm egotism» — and how that egotism is being harnessed for the public good.

A few years back, on the heels of Kim Kardashian's ill - fated and short - lived marriage to Kris Humpries, I wrote a post about how their attraction and marriage may be the result of what psychologists refer to as implicit egotism.

Well, that relationship has come and gone, but in true implicit egotism fashion, Kim has since moved on to marry Kanye, with whom she also shares the initial K!