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Sheehy's faith in change and redemption reflects an Oprah-esque optimism about human malleability, whereas F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of an egotist whose selfishness wrecks her life and the lives of everyone around her reeks of dourness.
In his announcement address, as in previous speeches, he framed domestic issues in terms of "honor," "courage," "strength," "faith," "selfishness," "honesty," and "respect."
You may doubt that natural selection, a process that supposedly maximizes genetic selfishness, could fail so abjectly to do so.
How uninspired is the surgical selfishness of leaner noses and plumper bosoms.
Schmidt's selfishness is the most convincing element of this portrait.