We may have conceit, we may find ourselves important or we may be jealous.    From LearnThat.org.  [www.yourdictionary.com]

He could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree.    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 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

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

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