Sentence examples for inordinate pride from inspiring English sources

Perhaps nowhere outside of the Vatican was it bigger news than Germany, where even non-Catholics took inordinate pride in their countryman's leading the Roman Catholic Church.

This arrangement enables Milton to highlight how and why Satan, who inhabits a serpent to seduce Eve in Book 9, induces in her the inordinate pride that brought about his own downfall.

I began reading the magazine as a fearful, ungainly cook several years ago, and I remember the inordinate pride I took in putting on the table, for the first time, a basic but creditable Thanksgiving dinner, made entirely with C.I. recipes.

MANY neighborhoods have a landmark that stirs up an inordinate amount of pride and affection.

The first time I went, I was there for three hours, ruined a good shirt, fixed my brakes and, afterwards, felt an inordinate amount of pride to be riding around on a vehicle that I made with my own bare hands (kind of).

In another sense, pride is inordinate self-esteem or vanity, an excessively high opinion of one's qualities, accomplishments, or status that can make one arrogant and contemptuous of others.

He acknowledges that pride in his inordinate strength was a major factor in his downfall and that his previous sense of invincibility rendered him unwary of temptation, even to the extent that he became vulnerable to a woman whose guile charmed him.

Her pride in us was inordinate, nonetheless.

"AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles".

It's an inordinate form".

The inordinate delays impose heavy tolls.