| Marcus assisted Vandal in putting on what he called the lorica segmentata, the main part of amour that protected the torso. |
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| But he was moved by his own amour propre and his monetary obligations to his men, not by any duty of obedience to the French king. |
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| That would violate their sense of amour propre and their self-image as the valiant victims. |
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| Our amour propre forces us to look more closely at ourselves than at others. |
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| But he had made the mistake of offending the punditocracy's amour propre, making them look like fools in the process. |
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| Despite her professed intent, Barbara is more successful in documenting her own growing obsession with Sheba than Sheba's ill-advised amour. |
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| Toussaint's most recent novel, Faire l' amour, is by a long chalk the darkest of his fictions to date. |
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| Fun-loving, spirited, humorous and attracted to outdoor amour, be warned that these high energy, exuberant wooers set a strapping pace. |
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| In the end, she reconciles her new amour with her personal philosophy of maintaining two lovers. |
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| You take a minute to catch your breath, exhausted but exhilarated because you kept up with your amour on the dancefloor. |
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| With a romantic flourish, he produces a presentation box, he gently eases it open and shows his amour some fantastically expensive ring. |
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| Thus, in economies of honour, pride is constituted as amour propre and can be put on the line. |
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| My heart rate increases as I tighten up the straps of my body amour and slip into my full face helmet. |
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| The more they are ignored, the greater their sense of outraged amour propre. |
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| But the Foreign Ministries of Europe were staffed by aristocrats motivated more by considerations of amour propre than common sense. |
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| For the happiness and the amour propre of the people living within it, in order to make them proud, the great city requires the elaborate display of otherwise useless emblems. |
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| Shot on location in Greece after amour, it opened in French theaters last week. |
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| In fact, the most difficult part of the wild success of amour lies elsewhere. |
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| 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. |
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| Moreover, in continuing to accord priority to the relationship with the former superpower, the United States offered a salve to damaged Russian amour propre. |
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| 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. |
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| The unique characteristic of these fascinating plants is their flowers, whose odour is not likely to cause amour unless the recipients of the odours are blowflies. |
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| Bridge tournaments are equally draining, with some being played uninterruptedly for 24 hours. But there is more at stake than amour propre. |
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| The duo started out crooning Je pense à toi mon amour a good ten years ago, recounting their extraordinary destiny somewhere between the lines. |
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| The love of ma vie, François Hollande, the Président de France, had another amour of his vie. |
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| They happen to be wrapped around his real amour, the tarty singer. |
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| The two sides of the old East-West ideological divide joined forces to lead the protest against Iraq's violation of diplomatic amour propre and regional security arrangements. |
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| Jones had mentioned the fact of his amour, and of his being the rival of Blifil, but had cautiously concealed the name of the young lady. |
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| Buying fighting moves, amour and hiring henchman to assis? |
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| Playing Lieutenant Stephen Wraysford, Eddie Redmayne must be a shoo-in for Best Male, while Clemence Poesy as Stephen's amour, Isabelle, must win La Mieux Saucepot Franaise. |
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| Known as the Temple de l' Amour, the folly is now the client's summer residence. |
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| Enigmatic and difficult on a first pass, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a film that rewards multiple viewings. |
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| He cast her in L' Amour Braque, a version of Dostoevsky's The Idiot, in which she played a teenage prostitute, and persuaded her to do her first nude scene. |
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| Saint Amour initiated, and managed the design, engineering, build and operation of nine ROV systems including Phoenix's Remora, Medusa and XBot ROV systems. |
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