self-regard

How To Use self-regard In A Sentence

• And in this self-regarding, claustrophobic atmosphere, he became disillusioned.
• Learning how to simultaneously walk and chew gum will soon be added to the menu of anile crap that our self-regarding progressive school system 'facilitates'. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
• The greatest obstacle to our progress in love is our own self-love, our own ego and our self-regard.
• Most likely he would have adopted this course in the end, had his will and his self-regard been stronger; but neither, it seems, was proof against the blandishments of the match-making perruquier. Story-Lives of Great Musicians
• Artist-film-maker Miranda July's wide-eyed kooky persona has never been more painfully self-regarding than it is in her drivelsome relationship break-up fantasy The Future. Berlin film festival – review
• At the center of La Rochefoucauld's masterpiece is the notion of amour-propre , best translated as self-regard. Puncturing Our Pretensions
• Keillor’s jeremiad is wrong on so many levels, and proceeds from a place of such monumental self-regard and fundamental misinformation, that a proper rebuttal would require an entire afternoon and a minimum of ten double-spaced pages. Publishing vs. that guy with the voice I can’t stand
• And on it goes, each lame joke greeted with feeble, self-regarding applause and laughter that comes like a slow belch.
• The heart-warming (for which read emetic) message of this self-regarding tosh is that everyone should follow their dreams.
• All that's left is a pained lyricism, which is sometimes brilliant, but can also feel so self-regarding and wet. New Statesman