| But the Foreign Ministries of Europe were staffed by aristocrats motivated more by considerations of amour propre than common sense. |
| That would violate their sense of amour propre and their self-image as the valiant victims. |
| The more they are ignored, the greater their sense of outraged amour propre. |
| Our amour propre forces us to look more closely at ourselves than at others. |
| But he had made the mistake of offending the punditocracy's amour propre, making them look like fools in the process. |
| Thus, in economies of honour, pride is constituted as amour propre and can be put on the line. |
