pridefulness

But not glowing and handsome, packed with energy, and this kind of easy pridefulness.

Some of my pridefulness drained out.

Solo, both sisters sang with a tough veneer over a vulnerable, post-adolescent pridefulness.

Only at the end of the book can the reader empathize fully with the author and see how important her self-righteousness and pridefulness were.

These were all older than the new arrivals, and, over and above the basic pridefulness of their breed, bore an air of distinction.

He becomes a mere totem of Victorian-Edwardian manhood, complete with all the usual pridefulness and prejudice.

His nobility is shown in stark contrast to the deceit and pridefulness of the Greeks, especially Achilles.

But the similarity is superficial because, unlike graffiti art, Mr. Romero's discoveries reveal nothing of the intent, ego or pridefulness of their creators.

Calvinist Influences His writings resemble a Calvinist preacher's insistence on the depravity and pridefulness of modern civilization, to which only God can be a sufficient answer.

Along the chronological route of his exegesis, Mr. Billacois presents an absorbing history of a custom full of emotive power, one that concentrated inside itself all of the pridefulness, the vanity, the blood lust, the narcissistic assertiveness, the Freudian death wishes, of individual men.