Cumming and the producers know they’re playing with people who love being the center of attention and love winning — and manipulate their pridefulness to reduce them to wrecks.

While there’s humor in Nick’s jealousy of his rich and handsome competitor, Sandler laces it with a feeling of threatened ego and husbandly pridefulness.

My pridefulness was a constant source of sorrow and agitation for Aunt Ivy.

Across the film's 94 minutes Boseman transforms Levee from a man hurtling into the midst contentious conversation into someone tangling in on himself until inevitably, his parched pridefulness consumes him.

Put aside pridefulness and say, “Let’s compromise on a less expensive bottle of wine. We don’t like to spend so much.”