Sentence examples for ego from inspiring English sources
The word "ego" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance. For example, "John's huge ego was obvious the moment he entered the room".
noun
The self, especially with a sense of self-importance
When Faint talks to me about his clowning, he occasionally adopts the pantomime squeak of his painted alter ego.
"I do have an ego, to do with the success of the films or theatre, like anybody, but this one wasn't like that," he says.
As a young actor, I'd please like to know if you find that 'surrendering' your ego helps or takes away from your acting?
The deputy prime minister said he believed Shapps's denials but then suggested the contested account going by the name of "Contribsx" could have been run by Michael Green – the alter ego used by Shapps to write a series of get-rich-quick guides.
I'm sure there are great founders out there, keeping their ego on a short lease and using their vision, social capital, deep expertise and institutional memory to take things forward, rather than hold them back.
It also recalls Chic's lack of ego.
Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker frequently wore his dresses on the red carpet, while her fictional alter-ego Carrie Bradshaw spoke the designer's name in hushed tones.
Chris Evans earned a crust as his driver, while Caroline Aherne road-tested her Mrs Merton alter-ego on the entertainer's Radio Timperley show.
The current iteration of the character has the alter-ego Carol Danvers, a sometime US Air Force pilot who develops cosmic superpowers including flight, super-strength and "energy projection" after gaining extraterrestrial DNA during an accident on a restricted military base.
Not the ego-driven visionaries, necessarily, who are willing to take millions in losses – but a generation of (hopefully capable) managers whose job will be to read the room.
Indie aficionados of a certain vintage will recognise the head as a homage to Frank Sidebottom, alter-ego of Mancunian musician Chris Sievey, who died in 2010.
