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 Edna soon became a case study in exorbitant amour propre, lampooning suburban pretensions, political correctness and the cult of celebrity, and acquiring a damehood along the way.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
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
It is no pleasing prospect for a man, in whose character there is a large element of amour propre, to be treated as the setting sun, while all are speculating on his speedy death.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von
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
Like the California task force, Rousseau thought that amour-propre was a necessary ingredient of amity and a fulfilled life, though he was also keenly aware of the destructive vanity to which it could give rise.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2018
It was a matter of amour-propre, but—again—also of tactics.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2016
This wound to his amour-propre was compensated by the success of the last election.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
