Sentence examples similar to wound your pride from inspiring English sources

"Slumdog" may wound national pride, but the answer is more openness not less.

And if you're thinking of giving money to friends, would you wound their pride by even suggesting it?

One Wednesday evening I was tiptoeing my way toward asking Charles how he felt about his wife's achievements — nervous that I might wound his pride — when he said: "I know what you're asking.

We might feel uneasy, but we've internalised the need for the "joke-teller" not to feel uncomfortable, not to hurt his ego or wound his pride by not laughing at his joke.

The other generals hoped that would reject Đính and wound his pride.

As he instructed his secretary of state to inform London, the U.S. would be forced "to act in a way which will necessarily wound British pride" should the decision not be favorable to the Americans.

Tozzoli's demands would ultimately wound Yamasaki's pride so deeply that it affected the architect's already fragile health.

Duke is so cool that he has an ego meter rather than a health meter; bullets wound only his pride, although the embarrassment will eventually kill him.

Jonathan Beale, the BBC's defence correspondent said the American's latest intervention would be unlikely to reverse the cuts but would wound Britain's pride.

We go on pretending that Russia is still a major player on the world stage; that we must never say or do anything to wound Russia's pride; that we must appease its demands, even when Western security is at stake; and that we must include Russia — just as if it were still a great power — in all of our foreign policy activities.

When you end up at a lap-dancing club with one (don't try to fight it, it's gonna happen), always allow him to put his head between those puppies and go blubble-blubble-blubble before you do, or else you will fatally wound his sexual pride.