Sentence examples for less pride from inspiring English sources

The Indochine of now has a looser etiquette and less pride.

Doctors who inflict dozens of unnecessary tests on patients to fend off lawsuits take less pride in their work.

The Prince of Wales regards his station in life with no less pride than Eke the Geek.

The mark of the patriotic citizen is less pride in his or her country than shame when it betrays itself: James Joyce's "centre of paralysis"; Hugh MacDiarmid's fear that to stay in Scotland meant, quoting Soren Kierkegaard, "being trampled to death by geese"; the perversion of the past in Orwell's 1984.

"I prefer the people with less pride, people who say, 'Gee, I had to do this, and I'm not comfortable with it, and I don't really want to talk about it.' " He blamed the Marius crisis on the promotion of scientists to zoo-leadership positions.

It doesn't have to mean less pride to be representing your country.

I am willing to tolerate the consequences of being myself, and I am willing to do this out loud or in quiet, so long as it is me, and despite whose reproach-less pride my opinions might offend.

For Broadway, nothing less than pride is on the line.

For Juan Nass, who is not Puerto Rican, it is less about pride and more about money.

None the less, human pride can be harped on too long.

— With something less than pride, Green Bay Packers punter Tim Masthay said he was 1 for 2 trying to tackle Devin Hester of the Chicago Bears.