Maybe I could appeal to his national pride.

Publicly, Handley is trying to appeal to his players' pride.

He tried to buck me up by appealing to my pride.

Also, I suspect, he has the knack of appealing to people's pride.

"We appealed to their pride and their dignity," he said of his players.

He decided that the best way to protect the local wildlife from this cold little man was to appeal to his pride and his conscience.

So you've got to appeal to their pride.

"I appeal to their pride, to dig down and find something in themselves," he said.

Appealing to his parishioners' national pride, he urged the construction of a larger church.

Appealing to the astronomers' pride, he urged them to be ambitious.