The most serious damage was to the Bank of China's amour-propre.

In this way the appearance of complete equality could be preserved and the amour-propre of both satisfied.

The Speaker's visible role wounded the Reagan Administration's amour-propre.

The wonder is that a man so easily wounded in his amour-propre could soldier on through setbacks, contumely and disgrace.

Arousing his amour-propre, which in the case of public men should be avoided, it caused Lord Saxenden to look no further into the matter.

His command to the chorus, "Rejoice, old men, you are ruled by a king again," pretty much defines him and his suffocating amour-propre.

My disgruntlement was supreme, my amour-propre enraged, my bile overboiling.

The Case of Amour-Propre.

J'imagine que cela flatte ton amour-propre.

Rousseau contrasts it with amour-propre, which also means "self-love", but in which one's opinion of oneself is dependent on what other people think and which arises only with society.

Amour-propre (French, "self-love") is a concept in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that denotes a self-love that depends upon the opinion of others.

The term amour-propre predates Rousseau and is found in the writings of Blaise Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Pierre Nicole and many others.

In contrast, amour-propre is artificial and encourages man to compare himself to others, thus creating unwarranted fear and allowing men to take pleasure in the pain or weakness of others.

Of course you could: amour-propre is as much an entitlement of the literary class as log-rolling, which means you could also vote for a friend, a lover, a client or a colleague.

Besides, Chanel's and Dinesen's reputations remain intact whether or not their amour-propre does after Avedon fixes them in his gaze; Mr. and Mrs. Nobody have less to comfort them.

Thus wounded in his amour-propre, Victor now transferred his allegiance to the Bourbon dynasty, and in December 1814 received from Louis XVIII the command of the second military division.

If she was passed over in the celebrated memo, it was probably because she is a satisfactory interviewer by early-morning standards, yet not so compelling a personality as to threaten Mr. Gumbel's sense of amour-propre.

In most ways this book reflected great credit on both poets, and was affecting evidence of their mutual trust, of how their common dedication to the poetic calling had precluded any taint of rivalry or wounded amour-propre.

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.

David Christie Murray, one of the leaders of the pro-Dreyfus movement in England, mentioned O'Rell's letter and announced a withdrawal of an appeal to French journalists, because it might offend the French amour-propre.

Claude Terrail, 78, who inherited the restaurant from his father in 1947, said in a written statement, "When I heard that a star was going to be amputated from the Tour d'Argent, I was profoundly wounded in my amour-propre."

But their dates - at least 1,000 years before historians thought the Chinese first met Europeans - implied that the horses, chariots and bronze swords accompanying the mummies had been introduced into China by Europeans, thus upsetting the amour-propre of the Chinese.

As an actor, Gielgud was praised to the skies by such vastly different arbiters - from him and each other - as Bertolt Brecht and Lee Strasberg; as a man, he was, as Alan Bennett remarked, "entirely without malice or amour-propre."

How happy you are to have a son so distinguished by his talents, by the variety and solidity of his acquirements, and, withal, as modest as if he knew nothing,--in these days, too, when youth is generally characterized by a cold and scornful amour-propre.

This idea of art as inherently transgressive and artists as automatic free spirits has little to do with art and a great deal to do with the amour-propre of artists - particularly minor artists - who never relish having their sloppy thinking exposed and unexamined assumptions questioned.

The chief of Police suffers a great deal from amour propre.

"Yes, no matter at what cost to your amour propre.

The government, he added, with care for French's amour propre, "have all possible confidence in your troops and yourself."

But, all the same, it offends my amour propre.

"We Russians enjoy our winters," he pointed out, with a little amour propre.

A lot of the guys are big and strong and can be a bit sensitive about their amour propre.

He did so, the account continued, not out of'personal dignity or amour propre '.

His thigh muscles and his amour propre were severely bruised.

The corporate owner had the least to lose in terms of reputation, but amour propre would not allow him to assume responsibility without real cause.

In this most blessed form fame is indeed something more that the expensive piece of our amour propre, as Schopenhauer has called it.

'It is probably a misunderstanding - but then there is always the question of amour propre.

'Another time,' he observed, 'I must be more careful of his amour propre.

And so he went back quite eased in his mind, but considerably bruised in his amour propre.

They are soon disabused by their fellow students, and in ways which are not necessarily calculated to soothe the individual's amour propre.

'Never mind the amour propre,' I said.

But what was amour propre when weighed in the balance with the realization of Naniescu's wonderful daydreams?

And he thought of the amour propre Bosinney had stolen from him in those far-off days of trouble.

'You talk about betrayal of the country when all I see is an interdepartmental squabble in which your amour propre has been dented.

His current work is centered on Rousseau, especially on notions of recognition, self-love (amour propre) and rationality.

Amour propre ensured that France would emulate Britain (its first test in the Sahara came in 1960).

My amour propre is very low this afternoon and having a young woman coming in, radiant with efficiency and success, is more than I can bear."

Her extraordinarily acute and accurate intelligence is thus conveniently put upon the table, and the amour propre of man is kept inviolate.

In business they address themselves wholly to their own profit, and give no thought whatever to the hopes, aspirations and amour propre of their antagonists.

'It is far easier to satisfy the amour propre of the chief of police than to satisfy national pride.

Amour propre (Editions Veve 1984)