It made me smile — partly because of
a misplaced sense of pride, partly because it was ridiculous that my thinner appearance was regarded as so important.
At the end of his statement, the challenger claps with hands and stamps his left foot on the ground, in a synchronized way, a friendly gesture to stamp out
any misplaced sense of pride.
Determined to not go to the police out of
a misplaced sense of pride, Mitch is drawn into the personal lives of his students, which involves almost amateur - level gun running and / or drug dealing.
Not exact matches
And though Christian's
pride and apparently
misplaced sense of power are the cause
of all
of Fifty Shades Freed's goofy narrative curlicues, the film ends with a few earnest appeals to his character.
But it's become the stuff
of legend, so I feel a certain
sense of misplaced pride.