amour propre

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

For him they meant unremitting labour for his daily bread--a struggle for existence full of hardships, which, however, could be engaged in without shame, or any wounding of his amour propre.

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Hermann Sudermann

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

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

"But you see she does not sigh!" he murmurs, with a sense that the admission is not flattering to his own amour-propre.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida