Sentences with phrase «of boastfulness»

Look for signs of boastfulness or bitterness.

For Lane Fox, however, self - deprecation outweighs any semblance of boastfulness, as she recoils at «grandiose» terms such as «pioneer» or «philanthropist».

«I should break the record this year,» says Johnson with no trace of boastfulness.

Not exact matches

This very statement is the epitome of pride, arrogance, boastfulness and unthankfulness.

The rampant evil we see in the world today: ~ the corruption of human character so prevalent even in the young, ~ the disregard of everything that is pure, virtuous and godly, being replaced with apathy and indifference toward anything that stands for righteousness, ~ the boastfulness and pride in man's own achievements... ~ the inability to recognize the beauty and virtue in things that generations of the past naturally understood.

For when anyone is about to take his daily meal he puts in a few drops of oil» not so that he may enjoy some kind of pleasant flavor from the taste of it (indeed, the amount is so small that it is hardly enough to smear the passages of his throat, never mind to pass through it), but so that by doing this he may weaken the boastfulness of heart that usually creeps in flatteringly and surreptitiously with a stricter abstinence....

Sportsmanship The term «sportsmanship» might be strictly defined as the art of playing fair; accepting defeat without complaint and victory without boastfulness.