Sentence examples for tender ego from inspiring English sources

Trump has a tender ego, of course.

Trump's tender ego and impulsiveness aren't his only vulnerabilities.

Eugenia Sheppard of The New York Herald Tribune was known to tomahawk many a tender ego, and Kennedy Fraser, following the acerbic Lois Long at The New Yorker, coolly addressed a general suspicion about fashion journalists when she wrote, "Haute couture is a degenerate institution propped up by a sycophantic press".

To further bruise his tender ego, his wife kicks him out of the room so he won't hijack her pet project, and thereby the cold charade of their marriage begins to unravel.

Sure, they might have been just saying that to avoid bruising our tender egos.

Hard-pressed urban schools are abandoning baseball programmes in favour of soccer, which is cheaper (and easier on tender egos).

To many of us, rejection is a foreign concept, and colleges seem to think that our tender egos prefer a maybe to a flat-out no.

It is too late for protecting tender egos: a grown-up inquest into the Afghan and Iraq campaigns may avert even worse disasters ahead.

ANYONE who heads into the wilds of New York night life is bound to stumble across Clifford Streit, a Zelig-like character who has forged a career out of nurturing the tender egos of some of Manhattan's beautiful people.

The Heathman, which had just undergone a major renovation, was particularly hospitable to authors on book-promotion tours — to the point of massaging their tender egos by having them sign their books for inclusion in the hotel library.

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