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Sentence Examples It sounds like a primarily comic conceit, and an undertone of drollery does indeed resonate delicately throughout. People have been duped for long enough by a pompous officialdom and an over reverent Press full of its own conceit and self-importance. Isis looked over at her brother, who was looking at her with a mixture of appraisement and childish conceit. You trust that your motivation was based with benignity and not coupled with conceit. I read it to children aged two, five and eight and it was only the eldest child who got the conceit. His brother raised his eyebrows, his unpractised conceit filtering into his expression. Western rationality and pride in democracy can seem an intolerable, parochial conceit to those whose lives have been so violently disturbed. The central conceit is that the actor playing Jesus in the local passion play starts finding his life paralleling that of his part. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The extent to which keeping silence could hit their vanity and conceit could not have been matched by answering their objection. Clark was a first-class planner and organizer of the forces under his command, but his defining characteristics were conceit and vanity. In what seemed to be Zachary Johnson's most vulnerable moment, he still had that aura of conceit or self confidence. The former attitude mollifies arrogance and conceit while the latter prevents excessive despondency, de-motivation and self-pity. He looked at the miracle of his creation of the Khalsa and attributed it to the Khalsa, without pride or conceit. When these feelings are free from national arrogance and conceit and imperial ambitions, there is nothing wrong or objectionable about them. This is a first feature from documentarist Tareque Masud, autobiographical, but refreshingly without egotism or conceit. 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. The work of David Freedberg and Cell suggests that the animation implied here is something more than a metaphoric conceit. His metaphor crosses sight and sound and locates an Australian event within the larger regional theatre, a remarkable conceit. In this metaphysical conceit Thoreau reads India as a timeless place, defined by its sacred books. Show More Sentences Until I met him, I assumed that this nautical way of walking was extinct, or a conceit of literature. It was also about a Hellenistic conceit revisited by artists, critics, theorists, and poets during the middle decades of the cinquecento. 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. This reinvent-the-wheel attitude is a conceit common to all great social and political movements. And yet, there is a suggestive promise that the conceit, if rightly understood, offers something more, perhaps something less bleak. The male lover's career is a conceit that according to the author often has to come first. His conceit and awful orange hair will carry on enthralling a worldwide audience. What should have been a risky theatrical conceit is turned into an effective device for commenting on or counter pointing the action. The planned cycle of seven books is underpinned by the conceit that there should be one book for each day of the week. To legislate for artistic imagination is an intellectual conceit that for sheer gall takes the breath away. This is the kind of clever conceit that makes my geeky heart leap with joy. He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. Pride is viewed as a negative characteristic, a feeling of conceit or being puffed up with an arrogant superiority. This issue owes less to public prejudice than to the conceit of the liberal elite. It is clear from his arrogance and boundless conceit that he has never faced serious opposition from the working class. And the diseases of conceit are a familiar notion from the biblical tradition that goes along with its partner diseases of hubris, idolatry and faithlessness. There's plenty of funny stuff there, and it's kind of a shame to see this particular conceit, which has a lot of humorous potential, discarded so quickly. This dazzling conceit betokens the director's fascination with surface, a fascination which, on closer examination, reveals infinite depths of feeling. It's a veritable Winnie museum, a treasury of one woman's conceit of herself as the peppery, tartan Boadicea of truth, justice and parliamentary sub-committees. Schuster segues into the novelist's conceit of placing herself into the subjective space of her biographees and this is both unconvincing and irritating. Show More Sentences By 1879, his arrogance and conceit having ruined a lucrative relationship with his wealthy patron, Frederick Leyland, Whistler's fortunes were at an all-time low. It's a brilliant conceit, and for the most part works wonderfully. All the neuroses and hang-ups, desperation and conceit I can do without. He refused to allow his actors to use makeup, an unheard-of conceit at that time but one made possible by the recent introduction of panchromatic film. 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. Not because they offer us a service that is otherwise unavailable, but because they cultivate a sense of familiar determinacy that reduces conceit to humility. The search for knowledge and in particular self-knowledge that started in my journey with Oedipus, is not only illusory, it is also a conceit, perhaps also a male conceit. Smith transforms Petrarch's conceit into an expansive metaphor for the Elegiac Sonnets and the way their poet mimics the nightingale's mournful song throughout. Like Pale Fire, Lolita begins with an immoderate conceit that allows its author and reader to explore the extravagant, pleasurable, and disturbing fringes of the language. The film was faithful to the series we grew up with but worked well with the playful conceit that the film was itself about a remake of the tv show. Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. 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. 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. The secret to marital bliss eludes the Western civilization, although arrogance and conceit keep it from admitting fundamental flaws and looking elsewhere for solutions. 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. If proposing a remake is generally an addlebrained conceit, how ridiculous is it to suggest reworking a movie by one of the greatest filmmakers of all time? This might seem like a conceit, but the end result is both troubling and overwhelmingly powerful. The style is stuffy, the syntax is antique, and the conceit is never really convincing. As a means of fixing the fundamental problem of adapting Gatsby, the conceit does a serviceable job of correcting a deficit. The importance of words is a conceit of wordsmiths, certainly. Show More Sentences The problem with this kind of dualistic conceit is that it paints a black-and-white world. Designing architecture with the conceit of engendering community as a predominant concern is refreshing in its conceptual distance from profit motive. She is being reproached for conceit and arrogance, promoting expensive goods and products, which people can't afford to buy, targeting a wealthy audience. So the heaviness was not so much a literary conceit but something I wanted to talk about. There is throughout more than a hint of the Joycean conceit that this process is giratory and sempiternal, even though its temporal vector may be historically irreversible. And how excessive is the conceit likely to be of the few inordinately flattered lucklings of an hour, on a single day in July last, in Saratoga! He also argued that Bottom's conceit was a quality inseparable from his secondary profession, that of an actor. Only in the theatre, that forcing house of Ego Monstratus, is such conceit welcomed. The revival of bardic names became something of a conceit following the reinvention of medieval tradition by Iolo Morganwg in the 18th century. Put these two together, and this conceit, of the natural pardonableness of sin, vanishes alone. All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit. Their faces changed, and all the meanness, conceit, cruelty, and sneakishness almost disappeared in one single expression of terror. The conceit behind Churchkey beer is the revival of the old-time flathead can, the kind you open with a churchkey. It was a strange conceit, with our owne affliction to goe about to please and appay divine goodnesse. How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them. On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit. Just like a bamboo is hollow-hearted, he ought to open his heart to accept whatsoever of help and not ever have conceit either bias. This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance. The first of these appeared in 1874 and Hardy himself considered it the origin of the conceit of a contemporary Wessex. Hamlet also contains a recurrent Shakespearean device, a play within the play, a literary device or conceit in which one story is told during the action of another story. Show More Sentences Hearing of the death of an indigent in a back room he was depressed for days, entertaining for a time the conceit that he had failed in his duty and was a murderer. Among the topics are his empyreal conceit, private piety in the brief epic Paradise Regained, his genii loci and the medieval saints, and the fate of place in Paradise Lost. Donne is considered a master of the metaphysical conceit, an extended metaphor that combines two vastly different ideas into a single idea, often using imagery. Here the distrust of a spatial conceit of depth gets at the perspicaciously blunt intelligence of the book as a whole, but also gives a taste of its frustrating doubletalk. Much of the central conceit of Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials is rooted in the world of Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. And how will your conscience answer one day for carrying so many bonny lasses to barter modesty for conceit and levity at the metropolitan Vanity Fair? It dealt a severe blow to my conceit, which was a good thing. This argument about cheapness was the one with which she most successfully met Theobald, who grumbled more suo that he had no sympathy with his son's extravagance and conceit. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Lewis the eleventh had a conceit everything did stinke about him, all the odoriferous perfumes they could get, would not ease him, but still hee smelled a filthy stinke. A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit. I loathe it, for it is made up of mediocrity, hate, and dull conceit. Examples from Classical Literature No, nor for you either, although I suppose you have conceit enough to think so. There was no assumption of godliness nor conceit, no holier-than-thou smirk about the child. For many things there be, which we must conceit and apprehend, as though we had had to do with an antagonist at the palestra. And if you only knew how ignorant and frivolous these women are, despite all their conceit! The conceit deceitful in the painting, is the imagination that means more than its says. Aha, ye have not lost the Highland conceit, in drawing water from the wells of whiggery! And this was not only a popular conceit, but consentaneous unto their Physical principles, as Heurnius hath accounted it. There need be no conceit and no hypocrisy all this time in the mind of the deaf-mute. The effect of that would be to desiccate the human species in human conceit. As for the Texts of Scripture, which seem to confirm the conceit, duly perpended, they add not thereunto. I shall be that poet, Madame, if I can despoil myself of reason and of conceit. The 'losel,' the moral outcast, keeps his own conceit of truth though through a maze of lies. But the conceit tastes mellow and naf and bromidic and appetizing to me, like cream and raspberries in July. His occasional smile ran through all the gamut of grins, from the smirk of conceit to the simper of toadyism. The notion that this is a 'baby food' to be scorned by real woodsmen is nothing but a foolish conceit. What ambition, what self-deception, what pride and conceit filled the world! To make use of feminine conceit in the court-room is not an art but an unpermissible trick which might lead too far. The piece is vigorous, if not quite Clevelandish in the presence of some enjambment, and the absence of extravagant conceit. For this skillful and ingenious conceit, which is unclassical in spirit, we are indebted to Scamozzi. Each Montagnard is a Jupiter in his own conceit, and hurls his thunderbolt with what force he may. Show More Sentences The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. This conviction was strengthened by his vanity and conceit, a conceit to the point of fatuity. And he was exalted, and made the cap of Shiraz nod in his conceit, crying, 'Am I not leader in this complot? It is not vanity or conceit, which consists in pluming oneself exactly on the qualities one does not possess. Like most Reds, I am desperate for him to succeed but just hope that, like Houllier, his obstinacy doesn't lead to insularity and conceit. His lip curled once at the conceit that he was one of the Alps himself. A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne. Beltrami, while clever, seems to have been a man of insufferable conceit. With many a fanciful conceit, Fair Lady, winsome Poesy Her soul, an offering at thy feet, Presents in sonnets unto thee. She smiled at the conceit, busying herself with the tea things. The man's conceit irritated Henry and he longed to disconcert him. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit. The writer is very selfinvolved which can border on conceit, an individual who is self-centred and makes great issues out of trivial things. Lydgate's conceit was of the arrogant sort, never simpering, never impertinent, but massive in its claims and benevolently contemptuous. Yet this conceit in its incipiency, he knew not how to account for. That's the way to inculcate a filthy pharisaic conceit into a child. Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon. I was glad to see how free the answer was from all tartness or conceit. You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. Brougham's loquacity was intolerable, and his conceit immense. Show More Sentences It is a German conceit, that the vertebrae are absolutely undeveloped skulls. Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted. He went back to his first conceit and his voice rasped with malignity. Drayton and Daniel developed the conceit with unblushing iteration. Everything he might have waived but that, a clean blow at his own conceit. Their thoughts were all pent within the circle of this national conceit. Tis but conceit, and nothing more, to prate of satisfaction! Very often, too, the conceit embodied is preposterously poor. I've a very good mind to shake you severely, for your contemptible treachery, and your imbecile conceit. I do not, of course, speak of the conceit that displays itself in an elevated nose and a falsetto voice. Fortunately you don't know all that, or your conceit would increase insufferably. This the Quaker had observed, and this, added to the rest of his behaviour, inspired honest Broadbrim with a conceit, that his companion was in reality out of his senses. I think him a very handsome young man, and his manners are precisely what I like and approveso truly the gentleman, without the least conceit or puppyism. D'Artagnan walked slowly but nobly, as D'Artagnan, doubled by the third of a million, ought to walk, that is to say, without conceit or swagger, but without timidity. It is, in nine cases out of ten, the more or less contemptible outpouring of vanity and conceit which the writer dare not exhibit to any mortal but himself. Yet, for all his air of peacock-like conceit, his clothes sagged a little, and his face wore a sheepish air which might have passed for profundity. Harriet certainly was not clever, but she had a sweet, docile, grateful disposition, was totally free from conceit, and only desiring to be guided by any one she looked up to. He laughed sonorously at his own conceit, for, though he had little sense of humor, the crudest pleasantry from his own lips moved him always to roars of appreciation. We cannot be dogmatic about it, but at least without what you have ventured to call monstrous conceit we can surely say that we are the highest thing in nature. And as to conceit, he is the farthest from it of any man I know. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of conceit? Words that rhyme with conceit What is the past tense of conceit? What is the plural of conceit? What is the adverb for conceit? What is the adjective for conceit? What is the noun for conceit? Translations for conceit Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words conceding concedes concededly conceded Concede concede conceited conceitedly conceitedness conceits conceivability conceivable 7-letter Words Starting With c co con conc conce concei