At the center of La Rochefoucauld's masterpiece is the notion of amour-propre , best translated as self-regard. ❋ Joseph Epstein (2011)
Henry Farrell on Crooked Timber defends the European Parliament: ... complaints about the self-importance and amour-propre of MEPs seem to me to really miss the point. ❋ Nwhyte (2009)
"I had to become rapidly self-supporting as I had no trust fund, no alimony, no amour-propre." ❋ Jay McInerney (2011)
Any exhibition on the wealth of a nation's royal class is an exhibition of the inflated amour-propre of men with money and armies at their beck. ❋ Larissa Archer (2011)
Whatever the justice of the situation-and I had to admit that at least some of it lay on his side-my sense of amour-propre was deeply offended at the thought of being beaten, by whomever and for whatever reason. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Well, I could take the jolt to my amour-propre the more easily because while she'd been a prime ride and good company, she'd never had the magic that gets beneath your hide, like Yehonala or Lakshmi or Sonsee-array ... or Elspeth. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What we got was a president who suffers from amour-propre. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Whether she believed me, God knows, but she demanded particulars of a most intimate nature, inviting comparison between the Silk One and herself, and that inevitably led to another glorious thrashing-match which restored her amour-propre and left me in what I once heard a French naval officer describe as a condition of swoon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It might be that Mr. Obama doesn't suffer from amour-propre on a personal level; after all, he is an accomplished man with a close family, and maybe even a sense of proportion. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Rousseau contrasted the disease of amour-propre with the healthy amour-de-soi, a love of self which motivates a man to protect himself and his life without really caring how others see him (but still acting with pity and compassion, which Rousseau considered innate). ❋ Unknown (2010)
But Clinton (and his best adviser on the Irish question, Nancy Soderberg) made a critical wager that Gerry Adams was serious about abandoning "armed struggle," and they were prepared to risk the outraged amour-propre of a historic British ally. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The best art for them would be mirrors to serve their amour-propre. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Today they have nothing after what, as you suggest, was little more than wounded amour-propre - and personal pique is not the stuff of serious politics. hadrian ❋ Unknown (2009)
These exertions suggest a large investment of his own amour-propre. ❋ Unknown (2009)
His parliamentary colleagues recognised his genius but he offended their amour-propre. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And so he went back, quite eased in his mind but considerably bruised in his amour-propre. ❋ Patricia O'Toole (2008)
I suspect his amour-propre would have caused him to feel nausea, not amusement. ❋ William Harryman (2007)
The bicentennial of the Battle of Trafalgar falls on October 21 of this year, but was commemorated early by the British in such a way as to minimize the effect on Gallic amour-propre. ❋ Unknown (2005)