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

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

Vanity gives “value to that which is valueless,” whereas pride, a good form of amour-propre, “consists in deriving self-esteem from truly estimable goods.”

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

It is by no means severe, but perfectly just and true as regards the conduct of Russia and France, and on that very account it might wound the amour-propre of the Emperor.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Arthur Christopher Benson