How To Use Conceit In A Sentence
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his vocabulary alone is worth the cover price - gantries, quinquireme, discalced, carrack, loxodrome, godown, scutch, so shrewd in his deployment of detail, so blessed with good luck and goodwill that we forget the conceit and just enjoy the ride.
The Seattle Times
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They go in sheep's russet, many great men that might maintain themselves in cloth of gold, and seem to be dejected, humble by their outward carriage, when as inwardly they are swollen full of pride, arrogancy, and self-conceit.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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In turn, the gallery's window is fitted with giant windscreen wipers to sweep away a continuous downpour of "rain" inverted commas seem necessary to any description of Weber's wonderfully artificial sculptural conceits.
This week's new exhibitions
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I entertained a small conceit that in some way a part of me belonged in Hong Kong, but I was beginning to feel like a gate-crasher.
One From The Hart
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But suppose, Maggie, suppose it was a man who was not conceited, who felt he had nothing to be conceited about; who had been marked from childhood for a peculiar kind of suffering, and to whom you were the day-star of his life; who loved you, worshipped you, so entirely that he felt it happiness enough for him if you would let him see you at rare moments15
IV. Another Love-Scene. Book V—Wheat and Tares
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The effect of the self-conceit can only be to unite the society in hostility against us.
David Bromwich: The Afghanistan Parenthesis [UPDATED]
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This issue owes less to public prejudice than to the conceit of the liberal elite.
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His conceit and awful orange hair will carry on enthralling a worldwide audience.
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At work, you can talk confidently without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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My faith, the very name begets a towering conceit wherever it goes," he answered, and he brought his stick down on the floor with such vehemence that the emerald and ruby rings rattled on his shrunken fingers.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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They hated that conceited, self-satisfied creature.
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It is a conceit altogether void of reason, but it is so wilful and pertinacious, that it is almost utterly inconvincible, and so it puts souls in the most desperate forlorn estate that can be imagined.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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The planned cycle of seven books is underpinned by the conceit that there should be one book for each day of the week.
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The worst culprits are the big name stars demonstrating their actorly conceits.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are certainly grounds to wonder about this conceit.
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I am not what you call conceited enough for that, but I would like to believe that I might have a kind word or two on my own account.
Jeanne of the Marshes
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The word "conceited" has been used to describe him.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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He was too conceited to realize the great fortune that had befallen him, but smart enough to cherish Kitty.
IN A STRANGE CITY
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A little time to carry on this intrigue with the Frank, when possibly, by the assistance of this gallant, Alexius shall exchange the crown for a cloister, or a still narrower abode; and then, Agelastes, thou deservest to be blotted from the roll of philosophers, if thou canst not push out of the throne the conceited and luxurious Caesar, and reign in his stead, a second Marcus
Count Robert of Paris
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Reflexive and overdetermined, it is a conceit that fully reveals its rather heavy hand towards the end.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your willpower is strong, you have a deeper belief in your abilities and can talk confidently without seeming at all conceited.
The Sun
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In all you do, you are confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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I then had a low opinion of myself yet I was too proud and conceited to accept any criticism.
AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
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The interactions between the characters in Springtime obviously form a political allegory, but rarely have I seen allegorical conceits that were as likeable as these characters are.
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'She'd have been just the thing for me!' cried Lynmere, haughtily rising, and conceitedly parading his fine form up and down the room; his eyes catching it from looking-glass to looking glass, by every possible contrivance; 'just the thing! matched to perfection!'
Camilla
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They are generally so refractory, self-conceited, obstinate, so firmly addicted to that religion in which they have been bred and brought up, that no persuasion, no terror, no persecution, can divert them.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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She is being reproached for conceit and arrogance, promoting expensive goods and products, which people can't afford to buy, targeting a wealthy audience.
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Each one was a girl of fair common-sense, and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or dress herself up, or give herself airs, in the idea of outshining the others.
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But as you're a fan of this blog, I'm perhaps conceitedly sure that you're a great judge of character and have equally impressive taste in writing!
Botton's Up
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It's not just about telling me not to become conceited, but keeping things normal and not treating me any differently.
The Sun
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Não é possível que num País pobre como o Brasil, não exista entre os membros da Câmara, um consenso e uma visão de valor que esbarre num conceito de ética e, até porque não dizer, de culpabilidade social, em saber que tal atitude com o dinheiro público - mesmo que não haja irregularidade legal - fere os princípios básicos que balizam a moralidade exigida nos homens públicos.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fly me to the moon with public money
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To do so, she explores the idea of metaphoricity, transforming conceits into self-reflexive, self-questioning, and ultimately self-effacing representation.
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The genuine superstars, he says, tend to be the least conceited.
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It's a conceit that would ring false with David Threlfall's wild, bacchanalian Chatsworth patriarch but William H Macy's Frank is a more sensitive, caring soul, who uses his extended period of sobriety to connect with the kids.
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an attitude of self-conceited arrogance
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The greatest conceit - that pregnancy is not a health issue and women's lives are expendable - underlies the dual standards of Republican Party pronatalist policy demanding female submission to males who assume the right to hold women hostage to biology.
Michele Swenson: "Non-Personhood" for Women: Defining Women Down
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The director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale in black and white.
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Unfortunately, the kids 'space could have been much improved if the building design hadn't been negatively impacted by foolish conceits about historic design which determined the fenestration of the basement wall on the south side.
Georgetown Library to reopen
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At work you are confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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The information on 'poetry' I have to advertize, is a bardic prose-poem attributed to Amergin and translated into English first, 1300 years after its composition by an anonymous bard, without title: 'the cauldron of poetry', so called because of the metaphorical conceit in the piece, of poetry being created in a person's three internal cauldrons: Warming, Motion & Wisdom.
Poetry: a beautiful renaissance
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I then had a low opinion of myself yet I was too proud and conceited to accept any criticism.
AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
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After scoring the winning goal he almost danced along the road in his satisfaction and conceit.
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Another fact that could almost be a conceit in his own fiction is that Self's name is ‘semantically camouflaged’ as far as the internet is concerned.
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The glossy packaging of Mexico City's Vanidosas -- or "conceited" -- cookies doesn't give the slightest hint that they were created by youth living on the city's streets.
OneWorld.net (U.S.) - beyond your own borders
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Vividly described are some pictures centrally important for Renaissance conceits such as the proximity of pleasure and the pox.
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As a result, artists are constructing elaborate conceits to make what they produce fit into the category of a print.
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Your coverage has kept the Western Mail ahead of all other papers. I quote the letter not from any feelings of conceit.
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More literary games, but here intellectual conceits are mixed with bawdy farce.
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_Henry_ Earle of Surrey and Sir _Thomas Wyat_, betweene whom I finde very litle difference, I repute them (as before) for the two chief lanternes of light to all others that haue since employed their pennes vpon English Poesie, their conceits were loftie, their stiles stately, their conueyance cleanely, their termes proper, their meetre sweete and well proportioned, in all imitating very naturally and studiously their
The Arte of English Poesie
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Though opposite in rhythmic conceits, both seem to warp one's sense of movement through space.
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a conceited fool
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Not to be vain or conceited, but it was the truth and anyone sensible would agree.
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If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed. C.S. Lewis
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In the context of raucous comedy, the insanity conceit works well.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The conceit could sound clichéd.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was much to the conceit but it never gained widespread acceptance and the events leading to 1947 and independence always took precedence over what had happened 90 years earlier.
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The Rorschach inkblot conceit used for the catalogue was, like the ‘Lost Formats’ issue of Emigre, so overstated and dominant that it crushed the content.
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You come across as confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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We don't get conceited enough to say ‘we don't need to follow our policies today’.
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The old king was now left with no other companion than the poor fool, who still abided with him, with his merry conceits striving to outjest misfortune, saying it was but a naughty night to swim in, and truly the king had better go in and ask his daughter's blessing: --
Tales from Shakespeare
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He also was the most boring and most conceited of all boxing superstars.
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But against this untimely weakness Lady Penelope was guarded, by the strong shield of self-conceit.
Saint Ronan's Well
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She wasn't a conceited girl; she was used to admiring glances and had fended off the tentative advances of several of the young housemen, but the professor's glances were strictly impersonal and he had shown no wish to add warmth to their relationship.
A Kiss For Julie
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Hutchinson, with a vast conceit of her superior holiness and with the ugly censoriousness which is a usual accompaniment of that grace, demonstrated her genius for mixing a theological controversy with personal jealousies and public anxieties, and involved the whole colony of the Bay in an acrimonious quarrel, such as to give an unpleasant tone of partisanship and ill temper to the proceedings in her case, whether ecclesiastical or civil.
A History of American Christianity
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At right, on a crumpled white cloth, a collection of kitchen implements is painstakingly composed—a tilted ladle, a gleaming jug, shiny copper cooking vessels and a favorite trompe l'oeil conceit of a knife on a diagonal that edges precariously into our space.
A Monumental Moment
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Neither let this be jestingly conceived, bicause the works of the one be essenciall, the other in imitation or fiction: for everie understanding, knoweth the skill of ech Artificer standeth in that Idea, or fore conceit of the worke, and not in the worke it selfe.
Defence of Poesie
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These sonnets are as "conceitful" as the others, but the collection illustrates an early effort to turn the poetic energy into a new field, to broaden the scope of subject-matter possible in sonnet-form.
Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana
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His brother raised his eyebrows, his unpractised conceit filtering into his expression.
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The logical conclusion of this conceited but surprisingly widely held stance should be to declare all such people as legal minors.
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Em época de crise, onde as oportunidades de trabalho e negócios minguam, a mesquinhez humana aguça preconceitos numa “ética de bote salva-vidas”, onde a regra é: eu me salvo, você, não!
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In addition to its scholarly role, translation acted as a method of training for hopeful poets, and as a mine of conceits for the more experienced writer.
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Only Shakspeare and Scott could have given us medicines to make us like this cowardly, conceited “jimp honest” fellow, Andrew
Rob Roy
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It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through.
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Those that had been old in adulteries, and long fixed in a proud opinion of themselves, were here, even the oldest of them, startled by the word of Christ; even scribes and Pharisees, who were most conceited of themselves, are by the power of Christ's word made to retire with shame.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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By accident, though, Clancy came close to the ideal because he suppressed personal conceits and put his body on the line for the benefit of others.
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Look at how the pleating in the Virgin's headdress and halo is matched by the pattern of the rocks behind her head: brilliant artificiality or naive conceit?
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Bacchiacca in Baltimore
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At work you are confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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It's Kelman's least successful conceit, although it might give readers a richer understanding of the term "bird-brained.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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The series may not solve the problems raised by the buzzy documentary "Waiting for 'Superman,'" but its reality-show conceit is kinder and gentler than most.
A Guide to This Week
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You can talk confidently without sounding conceited and make it clear that you can handle a work task or personal project.
The Sun
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Dutch tiling and angularities and conceits of all kinds abound.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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He was extremely arrogant and conceited.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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It had been Captain Vestrit's conceit to keep a marlinespike on the corner of his desk.
The Mad Ship
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You talk with confidence without sounding conceited and can handle officials well.
The Sun
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‘His conceitedness actually does have some foundation,’ Vasquez noted.
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He is not alone in saying that some American lawyers and accountants are conceited and arrogant about what they think is a superior system.
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And you can talk up your skills without sounding conceited.
The Sun
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Its starting - point is self - dispraise, and its great enemy is conceit.
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He is as adept in the conceits of metaphysical poetry as he is in the tones and tunes of seventeenth-century verse; the strings upon which he strums are held taut by centuries.
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This would be true by definition; just as the investigation and explication of the conceit is what defines the process as fabulation, the source and nature of the main conceit (s) is what defines the process as scientific.
Archive 2005-12-01
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All the memories of those six months of deceit, of broken pledges, of unnecessary humiliations, of petty unpoliteness from a half-educated, half-bred, conceited, and arrogant people fell from us like a heavy knapsack.
Notes of a War Correspondent
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Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense.
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No writer could pen a single word but for the rich humus of public domain effort with which we garden our notions and conceits.
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And therefore, such peace-makers as these before-mentioned do seldom do much greater good than to quiet their own consciences in the discharge of so great a duty, and to moderate some few, and save them from further guilt, and to leave behind them, when they are dead, a witness against a wilful, self-conceited, unpeaceable world.
The Reformed Pastor
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She was fond o 'caa'in' the crack, an 'I was wullin' that she should miscaa 'me as muckle as she likit -- for I'm no' yin o 'your crouse, conceity young chaps to be fleyed awa' wi 'a gibe frae a lassie.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit. Aesop
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You value your skills and can be confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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He is languid, conceited, a natural leader of men despite his subordinate rank.
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There's a liberal sprinkling of referentiality, Easter eggs of nods to other writers, and to particular pulp stylings, and a lot of that intertextuality is going to be lost on those who haven't read the type of thing I'm riffing off, but the key conceits are maybe not so hard to grasp without a grounding -- the book itself, the Cant, gravings, angels.
What is Literary Fiction?
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I must now agree that neither I nor the Bank require the services of an insubordinate, conceited egoist.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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I nodded my head slowly… suddenly realizing that I was dealing with an arrogant conceited jerk!
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There is one clarinet player who's a snot like her, and another whose a little conceited like her, but luckily no one is as mean as she is!
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But others don't care if it's scientific nonsense because, hey, it's just a conceit, and there's a lot of thematic intricacy to be wrought in mirroring the protagonist through a non-supernatural analogue of the fantasy/horror doppelganger: switch critical faculties to "metaphor", roll up the sleeves, and get stuck into interpreting the text.
Narrative Grammars
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Smugness, conceit, an arrogance which has the appearance of humility… here I can no longer reserve my hatred for these impotent writers.
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This is a first feature from documentarist Tareque Masud, autobiographical, but refreshingly without egotism or conceit.
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You value your skills and can be confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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'Have the goodness to tell that conceited girl there, that her headgear is the most miserable that ever was seen.'
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
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The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or "coy
Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed
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Indeed, the boy known for ‘always thinking ahead’ could never utter the final sentence in the passage-unless he willfully yielded to the seductions of his father's self-indulgent conceits.
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His personal defects are a somewhat hostile reserve, conceit, and a narrow outlook....
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But this and his conceitedness were two of the things that had made him seem cute when I was a sophomore.
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The central metaphor, or conceit, or daring insight of Nicholas Ostler's study is that languages deserve to be treated as subjects, agents, in their own right.
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That's the conceit of filmmaker Jeffrey Blitz, who set out with digital video camera in hand to document the 1999 U.S. National Spelling Bee championship.
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The show's central conceit is delightful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone who has lived for long in the centre of our crowded cities will recognise the central conceit of Interiors.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's essential for you not to let yourself appear arrogant and conceited because of this.
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Too little humility - what we'd call arrogance or conceit - is easily seen as a spiritual impediment, but the opposite is also true.
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She knew nothing about him… yet she had the guts to even describe him as an arrogant conceited brat.
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I tell you, Aunt 'Becca, he's a Whig, and no mistake; nobody but a Whig could make such a conceity dunce of himself.
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843
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Half dead upon the spot where he was phlebotomized, the wretched animal was left to reflect under the shade of a tulip-tree on the cruelty of man, on their barbarous appetites; cursing with all his heart the poverty of Morvinian curates, their conceited hospitality, of which he was the victim, and their brutal affection for pig's blood.
Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches
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Sep did not, however, enact as noticeable a development as Donne, whose early ‘Songs and Sonnets’ are amorous works heavily using metaphysical conceit.
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Li Hongzhi's leaders and fellow servicemen at the stud farm and the forest police troop said he was a common solider and was introverted and conceited.
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Mars gives you confidence and the moon supplies charm, so you can talk about your skills and ideas at work without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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Shadow of the Vampire is a fictionalization of a true event, taking off from a brilliant conceit, that the director of a vampire film would hire a real vampire to play the leading role.
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While such definitions are generally vague enough to allow for fiction founded on most any conceit of technical possibility (i.e. “speculative elements” in general rather than specific conceits like the robot or the rocketship), incoherent attempts to disallow conceits of metaphysical impossibility have led to an artificial distinction between futurological Sci-Fi and works of a more conceptual nature.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy?
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a conceited fool
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Or is Dennett, full of hubris and conceit, the new god?
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He distinguishes three phases, designating them after the programmatic conceit which serves in each case to emblematize the unity of purpose conjoining the individuals depicted.
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So I won't dismiss Palahniuk's new book -- a "novel" consisting of 23 "short stories" linked by "poems," a thin "narrative," and the conceit that this whole shebang is the work of the flesh - and fame-starved prisoners at a ghoulish writers 'colony -- as mere crap.
May 2005
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Very conceited, the men were, with double-barrelled names and chins, new-style rather than old-style gentlemen.
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Would it seem conceited to accept a compliment graciously, to acknowledge that there may actually be something praiseworthy about me?
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The sense that the models are crushed or dehumanized by their work and the photographer's art is the conceit of some of the best photographs.
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Their comments sound conceited and cliquish and elitist.
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Yet the cast manages to coexist capably with the conceit, confidently propelling us through the drama of lords, priests and queens, in ascendance and decline, in Henry's intrigue-ridden court.
Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII'
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What if IBM hadn't grown so damn big and hadn't developed such a massively complacent conceit of itself and its achievements?
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It's a brilliant conceit, and for the most part works wonderfully.
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At work you are confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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One should also learn to avoid non-divine traits as ostentation, arrogance, self-conceit, anger, pride and excessive attachment to worldly possessions.
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When she first meets people Penny is conceited and haughty.
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Jupiter adds a vital touch of luck to work plans and you can talk with confidence without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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It's only ever the men, my age, mostly, with no luggage and unendurably conceited expressions on their faces.
Times, Sunday Times
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First Impression: Julius is described as an individualistic, jovial, conceited rich boy who loves a glass of wine—or three.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor
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You can talk confidently about your abilities without sounding conceited.
The Sun
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At work you are confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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Typically they become conceited and end up thinking they have all the answers - when of course no one does.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was about to lecture him about the evil of self-conceit and the importance of modesty, when a servant ran into the library crying nervously.
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She was quite conceity, and carried a heap o 'style;
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"
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Conceit and complacency are the archenemy of unity.
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“Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil — why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated — they are all of the tribe of Macfungus — mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie.”
The Antiquary
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It was her conceit to infuse the Way of Ringess with the ancient secrets of the Tantra that she knew so well.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Bleeding-heart liberals, hypocritical millennials, conceited high-rollers - no one escapes with their dignity intact.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neither will national conceit remain only _national_ conceit, or _vanity_ be confined to admiration of a form of government; in the present mode of educating the youth of America, all sight is lost of humility, good-will, and the other Christian virtues, which are necessary to constitute a good man, whether he be an American, or of any other country.
Diary in America, Series One
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Those are very difficult paths to walk, to be up front about taking that stuff seriously, and not just using it as a trope or a conceit.
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I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit. Christopher Hitchens
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He was the tangible symbol of the Baby Boom, its conceits, its self-absorption, its lack of discipline and failures of responsibility.
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He was too conceited to realize the great fortune that had befallen him, but smart enough to cherish Kitty.
IN A STRANGE CITY
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In all you do, you are confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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The logical conclusion of this conceited but surprisingly widely held stance should be to declare all such people as legal minors.
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Wagner's ingeniousness with plot is matched by his cleverness with the recherché literary conceits - little touches that you can't help admiring, like statues in a boxwood maze, even as you hurry past.
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Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil -- why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated -- they are all of the tribe of Macfungus -- mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie.
The Antiquary — Volume 01
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When she first meets people Penny is conceited and haughty.
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People tell you about your child and conceitedly think they are saying something that you have never heard before.
Beard
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People have been duped for long enough by a pompous officialdom and an over reverent Press full of its own conceit and self-importance.
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It's not just about telling me not to become conceited, but keeping things normal and not treating me any differently.
The Sun
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He doesn't create elaborate conceits or mini - playlets, either.
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I then went to bed, resolving my first business in the morning should be to discharge this troublesome, pedantic, self-conceited coxcomb, who seemed so much disposed to constitute himself rather a preceptor than a domestic.
Rob Roy
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The treasures of this noble empire, so far as they affected their wishes, would merely inspire them with the desire to go to war with a nation possessed of so much wealth, and who, in their self-conceited estimation, were less able to defend, than they themselves are powerful to assail.
Count Robert of Paris
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The work of David Freedberg and Cell suggests that the animation implied here is something more than a metaphoric conceit.
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I read it to children aged two, five and eight and it was only the eldest child who got the conceit.
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It was also about a Hellenistic conceit revisited by artists, critics, theorists, and poets during the middle decades of the cinquecento.
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But this all has to happen in a climate where Scottish education has had its guid conceit of itself shredded by such things as last year's SQA fiasco.
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You have revealed yourself to the world as a conceited little poetaster.
Times, Sunday Times
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As conceit makes one lag behind, so modesty helps one make progress.
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Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
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At work you are confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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You can take credit for ideas without sounding conceited.
The Sun
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And yet, there is a suggestive promise that the conceit, if rightly understood, offers something more, perhaps something less bleak.
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At work, you come across as confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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She ridicules his pretensions and by extension the literary territory of the primitive exotic, pronouncing it all ‘pure artistic bosh and conceit’.
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This poem takes the conceit of a shared video library membership card as emblematic of relationship cohesion and breakdown in a gesture that is almost joking.
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Tunbridge, and praising the German Spa, in cant words, emphatically and conceitedly pronounced, and brought round upon every occasion, and in every speech, with so precise an exclusion of all other terms, that their vocabulary scarce consisted of forty words in totality.
Camilla
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Pride is viewed as a negative characteristic, a feeling of conceit or being puffed up with an arrogant superiority.
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The peculiarity is also called water and grain, which gives rise to a host of double-entendres, puns, paronomasias and conceits more or less frigid.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Modesty helps one advance, whereas conceit makes one fall behind.
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There is no trace of conceit, arrogance or class consciousness about her.
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She was witty and great fun, encouraging to her nephews and nieces, kind but capable of putting a brash or conceited person in his place.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leith is languid, conceited, a natural leader of men despite his subordinate rank.
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The stripping away of history is informed, above all else, by a conceited impression of philosophy which is incapable of readapting itself to a context which resists certainty.
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Confusing economics and civitas is the cenral ignorant conceit of the new conservatism.
The Rise Of Feminism And The Fall Of The Family: Part 2 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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It's an intriguing conceit, but, lawks, it's painful to sit through.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is foolish of them," said Johannes, "unless it is when a boy is what you call conceited and self-satisfied, and thinks that he is a man too soon.
Steve Young
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You never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place ever since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.
Mark Twain
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The ill-advised conceit of the guardian angel dooms the film from the start.
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It seems to me that what you term your manhood was composed largely of pride, conceit, ignorance of yourself, and inexperience of the world.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
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You come across as confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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He looked at the miracle of his creation of the Khalsa and attributed it to the Khalsa, without pride or conceit.
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The government that repeatedly declares that an educated society is its goal has to avoid the self-conceit and arrogance coming from holding power.
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You value your skills and can be confident without seeming conceited.
The Sun
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Of the female architects I've known, none in my experience exhibit the same conceits as the male architects.
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Western rationality and pride in democracy can seem an intolerable, parochial conceit to those whose lives have been so violently disturbed.
