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

Feel everything, tant que vous voudrez—but then soar superior and don't leave tatters of your precious person on every bush that happens to bristle with all the avidities and egotisms.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry

Destitute of egotism herself, she showed an invariable tolerance for the egotisms of others, and her management of them was a marvel of magnanimous considerateness and soothing skill.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville

Woodward, the comedian, in his lively attack on Hill, has given “a mock Inspector,” an exquisite piece of literary ridicule, in which he has hit off the egotisms and slovenly ease of the real ones.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac