I'm sorry that sounds hard and selfish and cruel, but it's my job and I have to go.

What he was about to say would sound callous and selfish and might well anger the patient into total noncooperation, but he said it anyway.

They are big shoes to fill," acknowledged Hart before adding: "It sounds really selfish and rude but I'm not interested in how anyone else does things.

After the way she'd put it, anything he said would sound hollow and selfish.

"But that sounds a little selfish," he continued, "to say you did it to benefit yourself."

And though this will sound selfish or chilly or less than magnanimous, I resent having no purchase on sympathy.

Maybe that sounds horrifyingly selfish or self-serving, but it's really not the case.

It sounds too selfish to be tolerated when I write the words themselves.

It sounds selfish, right?

I know it probably sounds pretty stupid and totally selfish.