Just one victory could help salvage what's left of the season and his team's collective ego.
Playing Mahler's huge symphony requires something more than musical expertise, namely a capacity to dream big dreams and a collective ego of excessive grandeur.
Such slights against the leader of the best friend Europe has ever had were intended to inflate the European Union's collective ego.
Of course Crow and co are not in fact unintelligent but they let their collective egos get in the way of communicating with the public.
Their collective ego soared.
Listening to this outpouring of the collective masculine ego, this litany of distortion, made Daniella ill.
That hurts our collective ego.
"No, it would be too lowering to their collective ego," Sergei agreed.
The Rangers wound up scrambling for a 3-3 tie that forced overtime and took a large chunk out of their collective ego.
Said the author: "The colossal blow this cold military fact delivered to the United States collective ego is inconceivable to us today.