Sentence examples for rare pride from inspiring English sources

Whatever the flaws of the Aaron Sorkin dramatic series about a fictional liberal president and his White House staff, the audience was saying, in effect, that a grown-up and unpatronizing show was a source of rare pride to them.

And Terry Eagleton's ironical and trenchant take on America, Across the Pond (WW Norton & Co), made me laugh with glee and feel a rare pride in our native culture.

The Cultural Revolution's opening act was to close it in 1966 for being ruled by the bourgeois; the otherwise pathetically timid history museum on campus takes rare pride in having "resisted ultraleftist practice" to reopen in 1970.

Leo the African is that rare novel (Pride and Prejudice, Don Quixote, Candide) from which the reader must travel back.

He belongs to that generation of men, now increasingly rare, who pride themselves on telling it like it is; as the journalist Christopher Hitchens once put it, he is 'a good and consistent hater'.

Rare's environmental Pride Campaigns often operate in areas of the world where LGBTQ pride is not yet publicly discussed, recognised or even legal.

I was out in the air, above the clouds and swelling with a rare sense of pride and power.

(On the side, Ricciotti also runs the small, eclectic publishing company Al Dante, which features photography, essays on architecture, and poetry, including a French translation of John Ashbery. He also collects rare books; his pride and joy is a volume by John Giorno).

But a parliamentarian in Brussels said it created a rare moment of "pride in being Belgian" by "smashing the lock that has left quite a lot of women in slavery".

As much as black people have always been country music fans and have always made music that sounds country, with rare exceptions (Charley Pride being the most notable), they have not been welcome into the country music fold.

Looking back on those days, Mr. Seeger allowed himself a rare expression of pride, saying he opened up the college-concert field to informal singing for a generation of like-minded folkies, including Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Joan Baez.