Sentence examples for its own exceptionalism from inspiring English sources

If the Tunisian revolution ultimately succeeds, even partially, it may be because of the country's sense of its own exceptionalism.

But we should also not forget the inherent value in America's fascination with its own exceptionalism – both to itself and to others.

Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps' uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power.

Next we had Putin lecturing Americans about values in The New York Times and how American belief in its own exceptionalism was elitist and dangerous.

The boastful rhetoric that fueled the most implausible of presidential campaigns this year ("Make America Great Again") reeks of the most unbearable of America's traits: its unwavering belief in its own exceptionalism.

There's little reason to expect that a country that is several millennia old and convinced of its own exceptionalism will feel obliged to adopt a radically different system of governance.

Yet in many of my conversations with him, he seemed to cling to the idea of his own exceptionalism.

That sense of his own exceptionalism is at the heart of the act of violence that is at the center of the book, Tom's murder of another man in front of his daughters, as well as the man's own children.

Many environmentalists are imbued with a sense of their own exceptionalism and original virtue.

Skepticism gave way to conviction as the IPs overcame their own exceptionalism.

Both books feature the same clock on a classroom wall, its frozen hands and melted face right out of a Dalí painting — as if time in Detroit had ticked to a halt, distorted, when in fact, with our gridlocked government and blind faith in our own exceptionalism, time is passing us by.