We may have conceit, we may find ourselves important or we may be jealous. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Unless you call his conceit and bragging unpleasant. From Wordnik.com. [TOO MANY MURDERS] Reference
That conceit is almost a great joke in and of itself. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRACT Blu-ray Review – Collider.com] Reference
Bennett's conceit is that the classroom is a theatre. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Interview. Alan Bennett.] Reference
The conceit is pretending that you can extend this approach to determine GAT. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Example of Climate Work That Needs to be Checked and Replicated] Reference
The book's conceit is that secret DoSAC files have been found at Euston station. From Wordnik.com. [Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition'] Reference
A conceit is an idea with an inflated ego, whimsy masquerading as the grandiose. From Wordnik.com. [A Modernist Prometheus] Reference
Still, as Psych has run, it has become obvious its fake-psychic conceit is too limiting. From Wordnik.com. [Critic's Corner Weekend] Reference
Like many a sit-com, the play's giddy conceit is really about nothing substantial at all. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage] Reference
The offence of this conceit is that it rests on a devaluation of peers and their products. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
The modern conceit is that ‘myself’ can be used as subject, direct and indirect object. From Wordnik.com. [The Burlington Township S.D. response on the ObamaHymn (Copy-edited.) - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
The entire sovereignty conceit is one of our most baleful inheritances from the Roman Empire. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Justice for War Criminals?] Reference
The connecting conceit is that Guard Mice at a tavern are telling tales to outdo one another. From Wordnik.com. [Mouse Guard Spins off Legends of the Guard » Comics Worth Reading] Reference
How much you enjoy the book, therefore, really depends upon how fresh that narrative conceit is to you. From Wordnik.com. [Robot Reviews: The Eternal Smile | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
The conceit is this is a newly discovered collection of Watson's work that was supposedly destroyed decades ago. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Prose Fiction: Sherlock Holmes - The Secret Documents Of Sherlock Holmes] Reference
(The nobble's conceit is that it is an edited transcription of a photographic archive of letters from the Martian Colony.). From Wordnik.com. [SeeLight:] Reference
When fear, which rank ilUivature terms conceit, 765. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or, Beauties of British Poetry] Reference
The conceit is the same, and I willingly attribute it to. From Wordnik.com. [Poems, 1799] Reference
An improper and excessive self-esteem known as conceit and arrogance. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference
His conceit is the only thing against him, and she may not mind that. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
Self-conceit is unteachable; the humble grow wise (compare Pr 16: 18. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
In spite of his conceit, which is astounding, Davies does have a point. From Wordnik.com. [Leaked slides connected to Gray's defence procurement report are very damning] Reference
Chargeable against my conceit were the causeless, ineffectual deaths of Hesa. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
He had self-conceit, which is a talent when combined with some other qualities. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
Like Marble Madness and even Marble Blast's own Xbox Live counterparts, the conceit is a fun one. From Wordnik.com. [Macworld] Reference
I believe, "he said as Ransom bounded away," I believe conceit is the normal condition of boyhood. ". From Wordnik.com. [Melbourne House] Reference
The movie is uneven for sure and ludicrous in conceit, but that’s not to say that it isn’t entertaining at times. From Wordnik.com. [Your mind won’t be blown watching “The Men Who Stare at Goats” » Scene-Stealers] Reference
I'm not as jazzed by the central conceit, which is too "Peggy Sue Got Married" for me, but it's probably going to be a good comic. From Wordnik.com. [New Alex Robinson Comic? Awesome! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
Your conceit is astounding. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » But Isn’t It a Bit Hard to Predict With a 7-Year-Old?] Reference
"That's what I call conceit," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell at Yale] Reference
At least this conceit is simple. From Wordnik.com. [June « 2009 « Squares of Wheat] Reference
Alex had never found that kind of conceit commendable or appealing. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
It was a "conceit" that our financial system could absorb massive record inflow of money and not go haywire. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Quagmire For The U.S.] Reference
This accidental d'jinn of what writers call a "conceit" had completely relegated me to a role as supernumerary. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Sausage Pilau] Reference
The reduction of all facts to the ostensibly paradigmatic form of mathematical knowledge is a form of "conceit,". From Wordnik.com. [Giambattista Vico] Reference
Greville ultimately seems to relish letting his "conceit" go wild, then reining it in with terse moral formulas. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
So to try and pin down exactly what I mean here, let's grab the definitions of 'conceit' from an online dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [A Modernist Prometheus] Reference
They're a neat little conceit which is novel enough -- or at least not conventional enough -- to me to not feel like a trope. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
And each of these people actually plays a stroke, it's a kind of conceit in the spots, where they talk about their personalities. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2005] Reference
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