egotisms
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He warned against "egotisms" from prominent bench-warmers like Arjen Robben and Mario Gómez.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2013
She refused to understand Berlioz, flouted Wagner, and mocked Rodin's marble egotisms, the ferocious, white stillness of his Balzac!
From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James
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
The small egotisms of the writer do not alienate other readers as they did John Wilson Croker.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
There are many things that take its likeness: fierce unstable passions and poor egotisms of all sorts, vanities too, and many other follies—Apatê and Philotês in a thousand masquerading characters that gain great Love discredit.
From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida
