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
Exalting us above our private piques, prejudices, egotisms, into the commonwealth of charities, good company makes us catholic, courteous, sane; we retire from it with a new estimate of ourselves and of mankind.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
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
Her little restless egotisms of mind and manner had chilled him unawares.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume I by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
