Sentence examples for excessive pride from inspiring English sources

The year after her arrival, she involved herself personally in the redesign of the firm's iconic logo, unveiling the underwhelming result with excessive pride.

"Excessive pride or self-confidence".

4) They express excessive pride over being on the board.

Excessive pride, I believe, is the fundamental problem.

Wiertz, who compared himself to Rubens, admitted that some accused him of excessive pride.

Well, the ancient Greeks had a word for it: hubris, excessive pride.

With neither undue pride nor excessive remorse, Mr. Moreh's interlocutors talk about the "targeted assassination" of Hamas militants, about "moderate physical pressure" applied (sometimes fatally) to Palestinian prisoners and about the other tactics that are part of the arsenal of occupation.

Maybe it was that excessive local pride that nurtured my teenage scorn -- overexposure bred the proverbial contempt.

Where once shame would come shuddering up through the shoes of club head-honchos who had seen a player go elsewhere and develop into a fearsome star, now it appears there is only excessive self pride and self congratulatory back-slapping at the idea of being able to spend so much cash to ward off rivals and secure a player once deemed surplus to requirements.

His excessive sensibility, his pride, the high standards of his demands on people, made him solitary.

Vieira de Mello's pride was perhaps excessive.