amour propre
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Stripping away the amour propre of a nuclear-armed potentate is a dangerous business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
But Britain, its amour propre stung at losing such a treasure, halted its export and raised money to keep it in the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
Fiennes brings a wonderful maturity and complexity to the role: a jaggedness, a simmering amour propre, a neurotic obsessiveness, an importunate yearning.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2021
On the contrary, their amour propre requires them not to be.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2021
Someone suggested the introduction of the Eastern Question, which at the moment, under the sedulous treatment of Disraeli, was stirring British amour propre.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
The younger man emerges from this labyrinth of court proceedings and outraged amour-propre in the worst possible light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It’s hard to see how, other than in their amour-propre, since Chief Justice Hughes ruled nearly nine decades ago that Congress had no right to disregard the fiscal obligations it enacted.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023
As much as the Beatles, it was Connery’s charismatic Bond who kept alive Britain’s postwar amour-propre.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2020
Vanity gives “value to that which is valueless,” whereas pride, a good form of amour-propre, “consists in deriving self-esteem from truly estimable goods.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2018
The moralist saw amour-propre as an Apollyon straddling right across the pathway of mankind; he saw lies flourish everywhere, and proclaim themselves to be the truth.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse
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