Sentence examples for reflected pride from inspiring English sources

Past the complaints about the boss and the customers, you can hear a glimmer of reflected pride.

Some newly prosperous El Alto residents built multistory "minimansions," whose distinctive architecture incorporated bright shades of green and yellow as well as symbolic serpents and condors, which reflected pride in their Aymara heritage.

For British fans, there is sure to be a quiet feeling of reflected pride at Sharon Horgan's slow, steady rise to become one of the most in-demand scriptwriters in the world.

The curve is best explained as reflecting pride in "Romanness"—in possessing not only Latin but full citizenship as well and, thereby, admission to a group for whom commemoration of the deceased was a legal as well as a moral duty.

As they made love, Guy reflected with pride, I am fifty-six years old, the great lover, and smiled in the darkness.

But as a memorial to Sergeant Tejeda, a 26-year-old native of the Dominican Republic, it reflected the pride and grief felt across the nation for fallen soldiers, and the anguish of immigrants fighting for their adopted home.

Steven Pienaar described South Africa's 2-1 victoverover France as "probably the biggest in the country's history" as he reflected with pride at how his team had galvanised the Rainbow Nation.

Angel Ivel, 51, an air-conditioner repairman from East Harlem, reflected both pride in his native Puerto Rico and the reality of life here as he hoisted a Puerto Rican flag in a community garden in solitary acknowledgment of the day.

Cook conceded losing Stokes would represent a blow for England, with the player having just returned after surgery to his left knee at the end of May, but reflected with pride on the lessons his side learned from their 75-run defeat in the first Test at Lord's – including an improved showing against the leg-spin of Yasir Shah.

Much of the increase undoubtedly reflects patriotic pride.

And that hint of physical vanity reflects the pride that lines his self-deprecating stage performance.