There was the matter of her professional pride, after all.
I may be short on that, but you'll allow me my share of professional pride.
It would have been poor strategy, she said, with professional pride.
"Well then," I said with a certain amount of professional pride.
But it seemed more like purely a matter of professional pride.
He took a certain professional pride in his work, but there were some things that no amount of money could accomplish.
He found no professional pride in lying to her successfully.
"That's what libraries are all about," she said with professional pride.
I felt a rush of professional pride at the compliment.
I had touched his professional pride and he said it angrily.