One thing is clear: that pride, superbia, means an inordinate love of one's own excellence.
The king's inordinate love for him made him rapacious and arrogant and led to his murder by jealous barons.
This is exactly the point of the canto because pride means an inordinate love and belief in our own excellence.
CONVERSATIONS about movie director Sam Peckinpah... Today, I feel the same, almost inordinate love of his films that I felt fifteen years ago, but the….
Vigny grew up in Paris and took preparatory studies for the École Polytechnique at the Lycée Bonaparte, where he conceived an "inordinate love for the glory of bearing arms," a passion common to the young men of his generation.
CONVERSATIONS about movie director Sam Peckinpah... Today, I feel the same, almost inordinate love of his films that I felt fifteen years ago, but the turmoil has gone out of the atmosphere surrounding them.
Frank, now a successful writer and critic, begins his story as a somewhat precocious schoolboy growing up in 1970s Los Angeles, with an inordinate love of art and eavesdropping.
By Pauline Kael The New Yorker, November 8, 1999 P. 98 CONVERSATIONS about movie director Sam Peckinpah... Today, I feel the same, almost inordinate love of his films that I felt fifteen years ago, but the turmoil has gone out of the atmosphere surrounding them.
Sure, other nations keep pets especially dogs but the inordinate love of animals displayed by the English is still one of the characteristics for which we are renowned, and one that many foreigners find baffling.
Sure, other nations keep pets – especially dogs – but the inordinate love of animals displayed by the English is still one of the characteristics for which we are renowned, and one that many foreigners find baffling. .
Sure, other nations keep pets especially dogs but the inordinate love of animals displayed by the English is still one of the characteristics for which we are renowned, and one that many foreigners find baffling. .
