amour-propre

At the center of La Rochefoucauld's masterpiece is the notion of amour-propre , best translated as self-regard.

Puncturing Our Pretensions Joseph Epstein 2011

"I had to become rapidly self-supporting as I had no trust fund, no alimony, no amour-propre."

In the Domain of the Earth Mother of Burgundy Jay McInerney 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.

Things that caught my eye nwhyte 2009

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: Asian Art Museum's "Maharaja" Overlooks Crucial Cultural Questions in India 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.

Sick Cycle Carousel 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.

Watershed 2010

What we got was a president who suffers from amour-propre.

Ashley Rindsberg: Mr. President, You Are Sick With Self Love 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.

Watershed 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.

Ashley Rindsberg: Mr. President, You Are Sick With Self Love 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).

Ashley Rindsberg: Mr. President, You Are Sick With Self Love 2010