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lack of pride



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Unseld described what Caldwell-Pope called a lack of pride as lapses in focus, getting bored with doing the right things over and over again.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

Rocky Bleier, the Vietnam veteran turned running back who won four Super Bowl rings as part of the Super Steelers dynasty of the 1970s, chastised the current group for a "lack of pride and self-esteem."

From Fox News • Dec. 1, 2021

Our citizens did not win freedom together, did not survive horrors together, did not face down evil together only to lose our freedom to a lack of pride and confidence in our values.

From Time • Jul. 6, 2017

I don't believe in artists replying to criticism," he wrote to the Observer, "and I have never done so myself, for I think it shows lack of pride and really serves small purpose.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tendai was disgusted by his lack of pride.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer