Sentence examples for own exceptionalism from inspiring English sources

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

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.

I feel a deep gratitude for Sandberg's courage in sticking her neck out to talk about these issues when she could quietly bask in her own exceptionalism, out of controversy's way.

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.

If things continue in the same manner – and I think they will, whoever becomes the 44th president of the United States, we the allies must invoke our own exceptionalism to America's loonier foreign adventures and military demands.

Music is music, he repeats; he doesn't seem to believe in (or, at least, wish to dwell on) his own striking exceptionalism.

Fortunately, in Gerwig's collaboration, he has found another source; he puts aside his own dialectical exceptionalism — alternately that of the insider fighting to get out and the outsider struggling to get in — for her secular state of grace.

Weaving their own narrative of exceptionalism based on stunning social achievements at home, Brazilians relate to the American Dream in ways both profound and inspiring.

He had called himself unready, but promised this week to reconsider and gave a suspiciously presidential speech at the Ronald Reagan library in California, lamenting the failure of Americans to "live up to our own tradition of exceptionalism".

He has now become a man so self-centered in his own sense of exceptionalism that he cannot understand why everyone in the first group doesn't rush to join him.