However, even this gloom can be turned into a positive for those making money from seductionology - you should embrace the self-pity, for having been through a phase as a predatory would-be Lothario leaves you ready for real commitment.

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But there is still something unsettling about Mr Adams's unusual hints of resignation, his references to physical and emotional exhaustion, and the self-pity that for a while at least appears to have displaced the old self-confidence.

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Argentines, who have a tendency to self-pity, duly blamed it both for doing this and for not doing it earlier.

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His self-pity is not deep enough to wipe out his inspiration for writing and singing, though.

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How, for example, did a diminutive ex-dentist, so replete with self-pity and delusions of grandeur, manage to attract and retain the devotion of an excellent wife whom he so frequently abandoned in favour of adventures into the unknown?

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It raises the probability that Russia will get its economy moving this year or next--and with that, cast off some of the confusion and self-pity that have lately made it so difficult a partner for both America and Europe.

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