Sentence examples for form of pride from inspiring English sources

In one amusing scene, they appeared to be competing to out-pray one another, thereby suggesting that piety can sometimes be a form of pride.

"The Last Castle" is certainly about patriotism, a form of pride that is one of the few things that cannot be taken away from a man.

Some outside observers picked up on this peculiar form of pride – a kind of anti-nationalist nationalism – and gently mocked it: Timothy Garton Ash, for instance, spoke of Deutsche Industrie-Normen – a German industrial standard – in "coming to terms with the past"; others crowned the Germans "world champions in remembrance".

In his final years, he became a lumbering patriarch with an illuminated face and dark twinkling eyes, who was very aware of his greatness but chose his words with care in a nation where humility is the only permissible form of pride.

In line with the introductory quote, research generally confirms the beneficial consequences of employees' pride in their organization (Tyler and Blader 2001), which is defined as a collective form of pride resulting from one's membership in a group (Helm 2013).

How a man carries and delivers his masculinity is a form of pride.

Courage and military heroism are also forms of pride.

It proves that a brash, rebellious attitude can be a legitimate form of civic pride.

The cult of expertise is a form of elite pride, and the populace have sniffed it out in the president.

And in "Southern Voice," which also went to No. 1 this year, Tim McGraw expounded a multiracial form of Southern pride, placing himself in a lineage that stretched from Hank Williams to Hank Aaron.

To me, it appears as another example of Anglo-American puritan guilt-grabbing, a perverted form of spiritual pride illustrated by our tendency to beat our breasts louder than anyone else.