Example sentences for: self-interested

How can you use “self-interested” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In your exchange with Philip Gourevitch about my book The Holocaust in American Life , you wrote the following, apropos of what you termed "the so-called 'lessons of the Holocaust,' or why we recall the Holocaust at all": "I would suggest, contra Novick, that not every institutional memory of the Holocaust is a deliberate instrumentalization of it toward cheap and self-interested ends."

  • But you went way beyond that--counterposing your traditional/cultural hypothesis to my alleged view that "every institutional memory of the Holocaust is a deliberate instrumentalization of it toward cheap and self-interested ends."

  • Let's turn to "cheap and self-interested."

  • But you didn't say that: You said that I believe that "every institutional memory of the Holocaust is a deliberate instrumentalization of it toward cheap and self-interested ends."

  • To be sure, there is disinterested conservative money, and self-interested liberal money, such as the union funds that go to the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that opposes free-trade agreements.


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