Thesaurus / self-respect

self-respect

How to use self-respect in a sentence

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?

It is, however, true, that in this respect the German hexametrist has a considerable advantage over the English.

Very charmingly is this respect for rule exhibited in all dealings with animals, also dolls and other pets.

Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.

These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.

As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.

I must aspire to the agitating transports of self-devotion, in scenes of sacrifice and peril!

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985