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
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
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
Between officers, and, above all, between officers of different arms of the service, politeness is a little excessive, etiquette rather severe, amour-propre somewhat susceptible.
From The Man With The Broken Ear by Henry Holt
