Looking for sentences and phrases with the word amour-propre? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
You'd imagine a 26-year sentence for a brutal murder would be enough to assuage the amour-propre of any police force.
Examples from Classical Literature
The wounds inflicted to his amour-propre by the Virginia Assembly were healing.
This wound to his amour-propre was compensated by the success of the last election.
This wilfulness was attributed to his youth, and the impatience of his amour-propre.
The infidelity of Clementine Pichon touched his amour-propre a little, but he soon consoled himself for it.
I take very little account of quarrels where amour-propre alone is concerned, but I never forget real offenses.
We could not escape from it, lest we hurt the amour-propre of the cook, and it was late when we were ready for our last sortie.
They are less concerned about their president's slamming-door farcical adventures in amour than they are about the blow to their amour-propre.
Then, Rawls comes to Rousseau and discusses the issues of general will and amour-propre.
Now, bashfulness is almost always a sure sign of amour-propre.
The amour-propre that sustains them in their delusions of omnipotence is punctured by the raucous irreverence of those who guffaw at their unsmiling menace.
