Sentence examples for proud to avoid from inspiring English sources

One of his flaws was his defective education; he was too proud to avoid exhibiting his ignorance.

They champion Hurston because she was black and proud, but they ignore the part where she said, "Proud enough to avoid self-pity".

Before we started today, I had a chat with the delightful assistant director of the shows, Donnacadh O'Briain, who said that the Histories team were happy with the way everything was going, but not proud: he was trying to avoid "the sin of pride".

Some women, like Denise and Amelia, seemed proud of their ability to avoid detection.

I'm as proud as a Jesuit who is supposed to avoid pride can be.

And while they're open about the fact that they relocated from Los Angeles to Austin last year in order to avoid taxes, they're proud that most of their 50 employees were willing follow them.

To avoid this, you should be proud of the hard work you do and should also be excited to pursue your interests.

"We do not seek to avoid paying our share and are proud of the contribution we make," Barclays added.

Farage said he was proud his party had given "frustrated" people a choice to avoid the group's racist agenda.

The Proud Boys are a right-wing organization that has until recently managed to avoid being labeled a hate group.

Deutsche was proud of the fact that it was one of the few major Western banks to avoid a big capital call during the financial crisis.