Still, the Amflora is something of the pride of Sweden.
Long, long ago Preston North End were English football's Invincibles and clearly something of the old pride has been reawakened under the astute management of David Moyes.
Culture, on the other hand… this is something we can pass on, something precious, something of us, our pride and our prejudice, the fallible and the hopelessly romantic, the irrational and occasionally hysterical, the real – if only a glimpse.
And yet something lingers: a sense of pride, even of nationhood.
(And those two towers rising, however plainly, have become a source of pride: something's rising).
In this group, though, having the yips, usually cause for humiliation, became something of a point of pride.
By then white supremacy was so firmly entrenched it had become a point of pride, something to celebrate in stone.
But on top of all that, perhaps Britain needed a source of pride, something to celebrate, an excuse to have a party.
In the same way, some young people convicted of serious crimes wear their notoriety as a badge of pride, something that gives them street cred among their peers.
Within MSNBC, this focus on ideas, rather than on entertainment, is a point of pride, something that sets it apart from its lower-brow competition.
