amour propre in a sentence

Examples

1. Rousseau's critique of civil society is primarily based on psychological features of civil man, with amour propre pushing individuals to compare themselves with others, to gain a sense of self corresponding to this, and to dissolve natural man's natural pity.
2. The Europeans, especially Britain and France, shrink from seeming impotent in the regulation of affairs in their own backyard but shrink as well from making the sort of commitment they made in the Persian Gulf, when their oil supplies as well as their amour propre were at stake.
3. It was rather a blow to my " amour propre " . . . You will, I hope, reap a rich harvest of shekels from the transaction, and the world will forget " The Sentimentalists " when it stands wondering before " The Lord of the World " ."
4. He was the 9 / 1 fourth choice in the betting behind Kingsgate Native, Radiohead ( Norfolk Stakes ) and Amour Propre, whilst the other runners included Tax Free ( Prix du Gros Chene, Prix du Petit Couvert ), Dandy Man, Ialysos ( Coral Charge ), Equiano, Art Connoisseur ( Golden Jubilee Stakes ), Look Busy, Moorhouse Lad, Benbaun, Captain Gerrard and the South African challenger Mythical Flight.
5. It seems entirely appropriate in the case of an editor who, although comparatively new to WP and understandably ignorant of many of the protocols, sometimes still disdains to follow them when he receives reasonable requests and helpful guidance-the way Vegavairbob has continued to cause problems by editing this talk page when asked not to is just one example-and whose " amour propre " apparently overrides any will to collaborate more properly with his fellow-editors.
6. Mr Wh-' s comments are wholly correct ( I confirm that we are connected only by goodwill in the fellowship of bona fide contributors on a topic of mutual interest ); and can it be reasonable to persons of Common Law countries to leave it to some remote person purporting to have some kind of official status to presume to be in a position to judge otherwise, in order to protect persons styling themselves as editors or as of some other status ( whose reaction gives every sign that they are simply piqued by an imagined slight to amour propre ) when an entirely reasonable and reasoned objection has been made, which they have not yet taken the trouble to justify to the satisfaction of a manifestly better informed party?
7. Yet at this stage, men also began to compare himself to others : " It is easy to see . . . that all our labors are directed upon two objects only, namely, for oneself, the commodities of life, and consideration on the part of others . " " Amour propre "  the desire for consideration ( self regard ), Rousseau calls a " factitious feeling arising, only in society, which leads a man to think more highly of himself than of any other . " This passion began to show itself with the first moment of human self-consciousness, which was also that of the first step of human progress : " It is this desire for reputation, honors, and preferment which devours us all . . . this rage to be distinguished, that we own what is best and worst in men  our virtues and our vices, our sciences and our errors, our conquerors and our philosophers  in short, a vast number of evil things and a small number of good . " It is this " which inspires men to all the evils which they inflict upon one another . ".