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
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
Friends could now get together, conversation could range over personalities, egotisms have their day, and bygones be disinterred without need of an explanation.
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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
