| Moreover, in continuing to accord priority to the relationship with the former superpower, the United States offered a salve to damaged Russian amour propre. |
| They will not change because it would be damaging to their amour propre and hazardous to their positions to admit they have been doing it all wrong. |
| Bridge tournaments are equally draining, with some being played uninterruptedly for 24 hours. But there is more at stake than amour propre. |
| But the Foreign Ministries of Europe were staffed by aristocrats motivated more by considerations of amour propre than common sense. |
| Our amour propre forces us to look more closely at ourselves than at others. |
| Still less is it a conclusion to which they can properly come out of a desire to obstruct a challenge to their decision or out of misplaced amour propre. |
