Sentence examples for Empty pride from inspiring English sources

Learn to live with the insult, swallow the empty pride, stop feeding the fire of our pitiful arrogance still left in us with more and more of our young soldiers dying.

Pride in African-American heritage, by this measure, is empty pride: it is as though Mr. Steele were saying that as long as most blacks in this country are poor, then the content of "black identity" is mere victimhood, at best a mildly sadistic delight in terrorizing whites with the blunt instrument of their own guilt.

In French, surviving evokes mainly a feeling of loss and trauma due to a catastrophic event, and the word "survivant" in French is rather empty of pride or honor.

I left that kitchen with my tummy still empty, but my pride (and self-righteousness) in tact.

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — With the announcement that Cory A. Booker would speak in five minutes, a crowd flooded the largely empty lawn at the gay pride celebration here over the weekend.

While expressing regret at Christianity's demise, they nonetheless insist they would leap at any opportunity to leave.At Mar Mitta, Father Adda, staring out over the empty monastery courtyard, speaks with pride of the burgeoning Syrian Orthodox dioceses in America, Europe and Australia.

For Horse Capture, the explosion of Native American pride at the empty prison island in San Francisco Bay changed everything — including his name.

This year, Sister Ana aims to turn the center into a cooperative, controlled by a board of canners empowered by pride and castoff empties that don't belong in the garbage.

If the popular judgment can be assumed to be that of a knowledgeable concert audience, we are much better off than with composers who pride themselves on emptying the hall before the intermission.

I submitted my paper without any pride that day, feeling empty, exploited, and robbed of my work".

There is also the pang of the empty nest, that mixture of grief and pride that is the special anguish of modern parents.