True interest in yourself is comparatively rare, sharply to be differentiated from mere egotism and selfishness; characteristics often immoderately developed in persons not in the least interested in themselves intellectually or objectively.
22.
He also began to drink immoderately; he spent progressively more time away from his family, sometimes in the company of a prostitute; and his wife noticed changes in his sexual behavior.
23.
Because Capri seemed so immoderately well-known, I had wondered whether my husband, James, and I would find its glamour tinselly and its scenery interrupted by elbow-to-elbow sightseers.
24.
It would have been easy for Sitush, given the prolonged harassment he has been subjected to, to have read the second meaning into the comment and respond, somewhat immoderately but very understandably as he did.
25.
Human beings, at least some of them, cannot bear too much unreality either, and so while my young companions alternately gasped and laughed immoderately, I found myself wondering gloomily about the probability of the dinosaur as a cultural icon.
26.
From 1781 to 1787, Prince Frederick lived in Hanover, where he drank and fornicated immoderately yet still found time to earnestly attend the manoeuvres of the Austrian and Prussian armies and studied ( along with his younger brothers ) at the University of G�ttingen.
27.
Weems's explanation of the ( fictional ) behavior : " [ Washington ] was made the wealthy master of a hatchet ! of which, like most little boys, he was immoderately fond, and was constantly going about chopping everything that came in his way ".
28.
Not surprisingly, the King's Bench judges were " immoderately over burdened ", the Common Pleas judges were " fully occupied in term, and much engaged in vacation also " and the Barons of the Exchequer were " comparatively little occupied either in term or vacation ".
29.
Even if the Ecole des Beaux-Arts collection is more impressive for its chronological breadth than for individual masterpieces, the level of virtuosity is immoderately high . ( The Met has installed the work with its customary flair and the catalogue by Emmanuelle Brugerolles and David Guillet could hardly be bettered .)
30.
Irenaeus reports of the Valentinians, whom he characterizes as eventual inheritors of Simon, that they eat food " offered to idols " ( idol-worship ), are sexually promiscuous ( " immoderately given over to the desires of the flesh " ) and are guilty of taking wives under the pretence of living with them as adopted " sisters ".
