Перевод: prideful

And the sons throw all away in prideful stupidity!"
It will be argued in this chapter that their prideful belief in the capacity to influence, so vividly expressed and so evidently vindicated in Indirect Rule, led the British on to fatal experiment in more and more attenuated forms of imperial control.
And at the same time the racing of her blood was only partly fear, and she could see that he knew it, that he had discovered this power and tuned it to performance pitch, that the insults were a kind of invitation, the display of force a plea turned upside down, and she also wanted, because she longed to please, to take off her clothes then and there and let him down from his prideful pose, and soothe him with her obedience to his rage.

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