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As such egoistical relationships have to be flexible enough so that it can be ended up at the will of the participant.

Anybody ever loved a boss (especially as controlling & egoistical as Al) over that short a period?

Marlow is a practiced observer--the very opposite of the egoistical Jim.

The challenge of trying to wring affection from the most selfish egoistical loner in the world?'

He enjoys stunt-flying on dragon-back, which land him in trouble, and is quite egoistical and mischievous.

She's a spiteful egoistical nagger.

Was her reticence about her own affairs as inviolable as it had often been convenient for rather an egoistical young man to think it?

The writings express Carli's conviction in life as energy, an egoistical effort at realising oneself against all odds and perils.

"He was a rude, ruthless, egoistical despot," recalled John Enright, then in charge of the sewing machine department.

Nietzsche, in contrast, celebrated the egoistical Dionysian Greek who affirmed life in spite of its many horrors and terrors.

But at that moment Mary came trotting through the bushes, with an egoistical look on her face, which was well besmeared with the juice of the ripe berries.

Eventually the rest of the team declared itself displeased by Braham's egoistical way of playing, and he moved back to Eintracht Trier.

Sir Gawain (voiced by Tim Curry) - Egoistical veteran Knight of the Round Table.

Behind it all has been one of the most gargantuan, self-serving feeding frenzies of greed and egoistical self-aggrandizement in all of New York City history.

That the object of Wilde's love, the egoistical young Lord Alfred Douglas (Tom Hollander), is so clearly unworthy of it only makes the sacrifice more noble.

Stock Zero, Or The Icy Water Of Egoistical Calculation, Moscow-City, Federation Tower.

Behold, O God, behold two distinct ambitions--the one egoistical and bloody, the other devoted and unstained; theirs roused by hatred, and ours inspired by love.

One observer described Andersen in late middle age as "a child, according to the ideal of childhood; keenly sensitive, entirely egoistical, innocently vain, the center of life, interest, concern and meaning to himself."

Critics of mind uploading as a means of life extension often dismiss it as wishful thinking, claiming that even an exact copy of oneself would constitute an entirely independent being, whose (identical) sentiments (joy, pain) are virtually irrelevant to the original, by any egoistical definition.

But these men tired him out, pressed him day in and day out, called him a bad citizen, a liar, an egoistical and jealous neighbor, threatened to run him out of the county, until he saw no other way but to take the party to the old mine.

From the influence of Max Stirner he embraces egoistical denial of social conventions, dogmas and accords in order to live in accord to one's own ways and desires in daily life since he emphasized anarchism as a way of life and practice.

She was a modern replica of her own mother and the blacksmith's daughter; she was kindly, gentle, ready to be moulded by a stronger will, and these qualities, coupled with striking physical beauty, were at the root of her appeal to the egoistical male of all types and ages.

He could not imagine what it must be like living with such a duplicitous, cold-bloodied egomaniac as Antar Brobostigon - his pity was only slightly modified by the knowledge that Crossa Brobostigon herself was, if anything, marginally more duplicitous, cold-blooded and egoistical.

Talking about his own personal style, with a slight bow in the direction of the French essayist, White writes: "I have always been aware that I am by nature self-absorbed and egoistical; to write of myself to the extent I have done indicates a too great attention to my own life, not enough to the lives of others.