Sentence examples for too prideful from inspiring English sources

Eschew is still current, but it isn't used much – perhaps it's too disdainful, too prideful.

I sat apart from my wife at dinner, too prideful to even attempt to show off our intimacy to Gottman and his wife, who seemed to look on us as star-crossed.

I cannot be too hard on Alexis Madrigal, as he was kind enough to read my email, kind enough to apologize, and had the strength of character and journalistic integrity to post my email publicly along with a sort of retraction, something most reporters would be too prideful to do.

Too prideful for pity, and too prideful to sound like "one of those kids from the ghetto".

He shook his head, too prideful to admit that his English wasn't good enough to translate it.

His anxiety is mostly fueled by the fact that he is either too afraid or too prideful to make a move on her in fear of rejection.

Having noble ancestors who were all too human — hypocritical, prideful, lustful, greedy, preening — is heartening, not discouraging, for the fact that such men could master their failings to build, not to destroy, should give us hope that we might be able to do the same.

I could have realized that the difference between us is that you are too afraid or prideful to admit your heart is in pieces.

He, too, was once a prideful coach with a very good, young team.

These are, by most accounts, people in the margins, with no friends or relatives, little or no money and few personal resources, people too wedded, perhaps, to gaman, the prideful Japanese trait of uncomplaining endurance, of bearing up, of soldiering through.

I'm a prideful person, but pride can get you in trouble sometimes.