Example sentences for: self-regard

How can you use “self-regard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A Charge to Keep is banal, disorganized, and packed with platitudes, revealing Bush as both boring and filled with "overweening Baby Boomer self-regard."

  • So instead of uplifting stories we get studiously downbeat ones; instead of good vs. evil we get calculated ambiguity; instead of violence as plot device we get violence as happenstance; and instead of a corporate worldview we get self-expression and self-regard.

  • The "inescapable conclusion of Note ," he continues, "is that Cheever is a horrible person, engorged with self-regard, who has been masticating the corpse of her dead, successful father for fun and profit."

  • Old San Francisco, long gaseous with self-regard (self-esteem is for Oakland), suffered a grievous deflating April 13 when Bank of America--banker to entrepreneurs and immigrants; builder of new industries; capitalizer of the California Dream; financier, indeed, gallant financier of the Golden Gate Bridge--announced its merger with NationsBank to form BankAmerica and its plans to move bank headquarters from San Francisco to Charlotte, N.C.

  • Many Germans, presumably, had a similarly high opinion of themselves in the early 1930s, and no doubt such blithe self-regard lubricates descent.


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