prideful
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The movie is therefore a muddle, by turns prideful and despondent, agonized and rousing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Here, a filmmaker who managed to reach the peak of Olympus makes the prideful, ill-fated decision to hoist a ladder toward the stars, trying to get even higher, past where even the Gods can see.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
This is not the time to be prideful about how much stress and responsibility you can take on.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
And the idea that what we think is right trumps everything and that our children are just extensions of ourselves, accessories, things to be judged in relation to us, as either prideful or shameful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
Tonsures, pigtails, head completely shaved but for a single forelock, long sides drawn into a queue with a raffish short-cut roach in the middle—all of it was prideful and abhorrent to the Pilgrims.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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