self-regard

Example Sentences

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Knowing him as they did, the Chinese played to his sense of self regard during his visit in July.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023

This is about developing a new relationship with energy, a new embracing of the need for inquiry, and some self regard.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011

Karen Altuzarra, the designer’s mother, a former investment banker and the chief executive of his fledgling brand, credits much of its success to her son’s unwavering confidence and healthy self regard.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2011

I propose this word as shorthand for a rigorous and dispassionate kind of self regard, even self appreciation, to be employed when individuals or communities face consequential decisions attended by substantial uncertainty and polarizing disagreement.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2011

As people become inured to machine standards, they lose their sense of art values along with their joy in creative effort, their self regard as working men and their personal equation in industrial life.

From Creative Impulse in Industry A Proposition for Educators by Marot, Helen