Sentence examples for reasonable pride from inspiring English sources

It's fine and healthy to take a reasonable pride in something you have implemented or created, but believing that a thing is so perfect that nothing could possibly go wrong is arrogant and foolish.

The British writer Freya Stark came away from a visit to unexcavated Aphrodisias in the 1950's with the impression that its people had lived "in undistinguished mediocrity and wealth, enjoying their world and untroubled by its opinions, except for a reasonable municipal pride in their city and its credit abroad".

The notion that it might now be reasonable to take pride in being German has become a theme of insistent debate.

In this case, different definitions of social justice and the reasonable claims of national pride are at stake.

The girl spent most of the day looking like she was on the verge of tears, and occasionally would move over to one side and have reasonable, quiet conversations with the pride marchers. .

The results demonstrated that the UNDA system, after appropriate corrections, could be used in PRIDE NMA applications with reasonable uncertainty.

Canadians pride themselves in being reasonable, open to discussion, tolerant, process-oriented-a bastion of democracy.

The President has always prided himself as the ultimate "reasonable man" in difficult policy discussions, railing against false choices and outdated paradigms, so it has to sting to get lumped in with Good Space Guy Steve and Jim Inhofe.

But Democrats pride and market themselves as the reasonable adults in the equation, and that's part of their currency with many voters.

In a reasonable country and certainly in any country that prides itself on justice, liberty and generosity as ours does, these efforts would be lauded.

But he concludes that one interesting aspect of the Tennessee flag is plausible deniability: "it is reasonable to say a logo is only expressing Tennessee pride, even if deeper symbolic recognition does link it to Confederate imagery".