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
The distinction between South America and the Southern States is not easy to the non-analytic mind under any circumstances, but when amour propre is involved it becomes impossible.
From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
