It's what philosophers might call a "self-regarding action", yes? ❋ Michael White (2011)
Nicholas Woodeson savours every line of the rantipole, self-regarding Mr Prince who proudly announces "I am the American King Lear" and Keeley Hawes elegantly makes a case for Ben's reproving but desolate wife. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I've looked at quite a few writers 'blogs but they don't sustain my interest because they tend to be too self-regarding where their own books are concerned. ❋ Maxine (2009)
One by one, the self-regarding occupiers are being evicted. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He hoped there would be life—self-regarding, pondering, and bewildered life—that would emerge from these many rules He had laid down, but He did not command it be so. ❋ Benjamin Matvey (2011)
Perhaps they mean that death itself is peaceful, not that dying was so, for all too often it is not is partly a self-regarding, partly an other-regarding motive. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Hands up who fancies a bit of over-long, self-regarding, wildly po-faced, pop-rock cock-water about heartbeats and rain and killing and saving lives and all that sort of utter, utter, utter balls. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He saw her looking at him and smiled with a look of recognition that was proud, almost self-regarding. ❋ Colm Tóibín (2011)
Artist-film-maker Miranda July's wide-eyed kooky persona has never been more painfully self-regarding than it is in her drivelsome relationship break-up fantasy The Future. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Selfish behavior that is exclusively self-regarding is praised; selfish behavior that requires the selfish actor to consider and satisfy and please strangers is suspect. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Because all cars are tribal, and no tribe is more self-regarding than the Ferraristi. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Was this one of those brave, cost-free acts of bourgeois "resistance" and bravura -- a cheap political, moral or other self-regarding statement made on the public tab? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Raymond Depardon/Magnum Photos Ms. Appignanesi's rambling, minimally organized "All About Love" is a kind of case study that bolsters Mr. May's arguments about the displacement of religiosity by a mushy, self-regarding amorous sentimentality. ❋ Charlotte Allen (2011)
I am not particularly a Kenneth Branagh fan: I saw him onstage in London in his breakthrough role in Another Country, which dates both me and him, and in the interim have experiencedmany years of watching hisrather self-regarding personain various films (mainly) and the odd play. ❋ Maxine (2009)
The outrageously self-regarding George then takes an onstage bow, largely ignoring his angry female co-star, before greeting fans on the sidewalk outside the cinema where he meets cute with Peppy. ❋ Nancy Chuda (2012)
Rex, as a self-regarding dog of a man, at least recognises that family bonds have no place in an inter-planetary polysexual secret-service. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In keeping with its maddening, self-regarding role as the American Pravda, a hand-wringing New York Times "analysis" worries that "the images could incite anti-American sentiment at a particularly delicate moment in the decade-old Afghan war." ❋ Ethan Casey (2012)
Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory". ❋ Unknown (2011)
Daniel Connor is a brilliant young medical student ambitious, hardworking, a little bit self-regarding. ❋ Unknown (2010)
