9 sentences with 'pride'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pride and other words derived from it.
• « Disgusted by so much pride, God imposed on them as a punishment the confusion of tongues so that they could not understand each other, and then scattered them to the four corners of the world. »
• « Although the pride of the Brazilians remains intact because the Coliseum did not hold the 200,000 people that can be accommodated in the Maracana, it is estimated that more than 45,000 people were able to watch the fights in the Roman stadium. An impressive Maracana for its time. »
• « Athenian citizens continued to pride themselves on their rhetorical skill, since everything depended on the ability of public speakers to convince their fellow citizens through the force of argumentative skill. »
• « Among the most powerful were the tragedies: stories in which the frailty of humanity, especially the problem of pride, served to undermine the happiness of otherwise powerful individuals. »
• « The Stoics accepted the need to be part of a society and to fulfil social obligations, but warned against the excesses of pride and greed. »
• « Despite their tremendous pride in Roman culture, the Romans still found much to admire in Greek intellectual achievements. »
• « The Romans came to pride themselves on a more direct and less subtle form of oratory than was (supposedly) practised in Greece. »
• « Roman citizens were, by law, supposed to have a stake in the Republic. They took pride in who they were, and it was the common patriotic desire to fight and expand the Republic among the citizen-soldiers that created, at least in part, such an effective army. »
• « A themata (themata) was a territory, originally one-quarter of the empire, organised around military conscription. A single general appointed directly by the emperor controlled each thémas. In turn, only soldiers from that thémas served in it; this provoked local pride in the military prowess of the subject, which helped morale. »