例句與造句

1. Parisians have an overweening pride in their city.
2. Their speeches express their mutual resentment over the ruthless power and overweening pride of Cardinal Wolsey.
3. His overweening pride in ostensibly disdaining the title of emperor prepares the way for his final downfall.
4. Although the message was a day late-- the Saints hired Mike Ditka Saturday-- it was part of the Packers'overweening pride.
5. They possessed overweening pride and ambition, so Zeus split them in two and twisted their heads around to face their wounds.
6. It's difficult to find overweening pride in a sentence. 用overweening pride造句挺難的
7. Kenneth Turan, film critic for The Los Angeles Times, recently had this to say : " Cameron's overweening pride has come unnecessarily close to capsizing this project ."
8. Ironically, Lucius'second son was named after his murdered brother; but it was the overweening pride and arrogance of Lucius'sons that brought about the downfall of the Roman monarchy.
9. He became disobedient, refusing to heed scoldings or warnings; Walter Map said that he " strayed from the paths of conduct travelled by his father and, by his overweening pride and tyrannical arrogance, made himself a burden to all ."
10. The Kafka tale could be construed as a story about the man who, with overweening pride in his skill, fasts for 40-day stretches before crowds of onlookers, but it is really about the onlookers themselves, who feast on his self-starvation and then spit him out with boredom.
11. When he returned with wheat, declaring wheat to be " the most precious thing in the world, " as it can feed the hungry, the widow, in her overweening pride and anger at his ( as she perceived it ) foolishness, let the wheat be thrown overboard into the harbour of Stavoren.
12. DVD contains video of the cast's appearance at The Museum of Television and Radio; during this appearance Colbert imitates Blackman, describing his " hubris and overweening pride . " ( A line that's actually a Blackman quote about Jerri Blank . ) Hollimon objected to the imitation, insisting that he didn't sound like that, but Colbert assured him that he did.
13. The sources attribute this to Ibn al-Ash'ath's overweening pride as one of the foremost of the " ashr
    
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    n " ( " Helper of the Faithful " ), an implicit challenge to the Umayyads, who were implied to be false believers.
14. To be sure, " Boogie Nights, " which will have its American premiere at the New York Film Festival on Oct . 8 and opens four days later, is hardly " The English Patient "; the clothes are tackier, the sex is raunchier and the themes of overweening pride and unexpected punishment are right there on the surface, plain as the cocaine that's snorted throughout the movie.
15. Moreau was featured in Chapter 13 of Dr . Edward O . Wilson s 2013 book  Letters to a Young Scientist .  Wilson writes  There was no bravado in Corrie, no trace of overweening pride, no pretension .  Wilson goes on to state  The story of Corrie Saux Moreau s ambitious undertaking is one I feel especially important to bring to you.