Sentence examples for exaggerated pride from inspiring English sources

America's sense of "exaggerated pride in its strength" was promoting military adventurism.

AN EXAGGERATED pride in ethnic and religious identity is a familiar curse in the Balkans, and at first glance the Serbian elections that took place on January 21st confirm that the curse continues: the greatest share of the vote was won by the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party, whose leader, Vojislav Seselj, is on trial before the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

However the Minister for Air, Peter Howson, felt that this made Scherger and the Army guilty of "exaggerated national pride".

The feeling was well mixed with pride, and often exaggerated.

Bond between school and community Mr. Milton's pride is not exaggerated, for his school serves more than his students.

Pride is not an exaggerated opinion of oneself arising from self-love, which Marcel insists is really only vanity; rather, pride consists in believing that one is self-sufficient (Marcel 1995, p. 32).

Tara Chand Sharma, a village elder, says with an exaggerated gesture of his hands: "My chest swells with pride that my grandson will be the chief minister of Delhi".

Lochte appeared as an exaggerated version of himself in the 30 Rock episode "Stride of Pride," which aired October 18 , 2012

The comedian Aasif Mandvi calls the exaggerated accent part of his "heritage"—maybe not the part of heritage that's chosen out of pride but the part you fashion to protect yourself.

But these are exaggerated.

He exaggerated only slightly.