amour propre
Example Sentences
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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
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 Sudermann, Hermann
