self-respect

How To Use self-respect In A Sentence

• If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
• From the past sorrows, we derive our self-respect to love our compatriots.
• A successful fighting man must have a strong sense of pride and self-respect.
• While the Dvorksy essay on "curing" fundamentalism that Stephen links to is well-intentioned George says of the fundamentalists that he wants to "return to them free will, rationality and self-respect" in order to help give their lives "meaning and purpose", I tend to share Stephen's concerns about this kind of memetic engineering. The Speculist: The Danger of "Memetic Engineering"
• They care so much about what others think and then rave about national pride and self-respect in the same breath.
• It was the only way he could show that he was determined to regain his self-respect by scoring goals. Kevin Keegan - Black and White
• No self-respecting shopkeeper would touch the defeated currency, instead rattling off a long list of what was acceptable, everything from Dutch guilders and Indian rupees to francs, pounds, and the rare American dollars. A Covert Affair
• With voluntaryism and self-improvement went self-respect, a code of honesty and a sense of respectability.
• All this went a long way to restore my self-respect, badly jolted by the morning incident. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
• So far as any self-respecting mechanic was concerned, he knew nothing.