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
Don't look so sadly at the lost youth--as I probably seem to you; or at least smile ironically, so as to rouse my anger and wound my amour propre a little!
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Paul Heyse
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
Perhaps this is what, among other things, gives rise to what is often derided as virtue-signalling, not to mention the ferocious rows, overreactions, wounded amour-propre and grandstanding that often characterise social media communities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2019
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
"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
