Sentence examples for pridefulness from inspiring English sources

This way of expressing myself may seem over-blown to you, but one thing I have learned to give up is intellectual pridefulness — " "He's on drugs," Alex said.

I have read the books on pridefulness: the bounty of game park and sideboard             and loom, the ships             that brought the lemon trees, the leisure that masters the view.

But even this heavy-handed metaphor is given short shrift by a script (by Antoine O'Flatharta, adapting Michael Doorley's novel) that skirts caricature but also avoids getting its feet wet in the swamp of Father Barry's pridefulness.

Party politics have never much agreed with her, she said, and she is known within the political establishment as having streaks of authoritarianism and pridefulness.