egotisms
Example Sentences
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He warned against "egotisms" from prominent bench-warmers like Arjen Robben and Mario Gómez.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2013
Before such a spectacle we are listless, as if history would wait, as if we had time�decades and decades�to transform our mentality, to suppress our customs barriers, to abandon our national egotisms ...
From Time Magazine Archive
But it is so in England, and the fact illustrates the strong hold these absurd and uncomfortable egotisms have upon the British mind.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various
She always acted on her own aphorism, "To bear faults, to manage egotisms, is an aim perhaps best accomplished by a skilful dissimulation; but the true ideal is to correct faults and to cure self-love."
From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville
They stood on the edge of the courtyard with all its indifferent pigeons struggling for a living, oblivious to the intricacies, secrecies and colossal egotisms of the men who passed into the House.
From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo
