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
Instinctively the saint in him knew from the mere look of her that she had been feeding herself on egotisms and falsehoods, and his heart hardened.
From Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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
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
