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  • n  the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect

  • The officer, Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), is a nastily smooth operator: oozing charm like pus, with a courtly tone and a preening self-regard.
  • Iran has been ruled by kings for most of its 3,000 years of recorded historya long succession of autocrats prone to exaggerated self-regard.
  • Ulysses may have resisted the sirens, but Beowulf's self-regard leads him to think he can bed Grendma and then best her.
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  • Alan Johnson in guardian.co.uk
    But the education secretary, Alan Johnson, said that the public would be looking for the "substance and experience" that the chancellor provided against the "personal attacks and the shallow self-regard" of Mr Osborne.
  • Lee Kuan Yew in International Herald Tribune
    People are saying: 'Well, this is an Indonesia with some self-respect and self-regard and a sense of responsibility to the world around it, its neighbors and everybody else,Lee said in remarks carried on the Web site of Singapore's 938Live...
  • Joan Burton in Irish Times
    Ms Burton added: "Anglo [Irish Bank] supplied the developers and the developers were the funders to Fianna Fáil and in that circle of self-regard, in that toxic triangle, in that golden triangle, there's where the ruin of our system lay".

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