There was no conceit on the part of the winner and the loser was never in low spirits.
By chance I once saw his coquettish look almost sparking a line of self-conceit in you. Then I thought, perhaps you really had made your choice.
He was such a fierce negotiator that Woody Allen based a film, "Sleeper", on the conceit that civilisation had been destroyed when "a man by the name of got hold of a nuclear warhead".
This conceit has been used by other authors.
For four decades the basic conceit has remained unchanged: to get visitors to experience science hands-on.
Discard all conceit, and always be prepared to learn humbly from the people around you - you will be the one to benefit!
He likes to play the ukulele and he plays bridge (with Bill Gates, among others) in his modest home in Omaha. His one conceit is a corporate jet, but that is second-hand and named “The Indefensible”
His one conceit is a corporate jet, but that is second-hand and named “The Indefensible”.
The walk is really little more than a cultural touchstone and a literary conceit, the event around which McCann has assembled his cast.
Her conceit deluded her into believing she was important.
She did not find that the emptiness and conceit of the one put her at all out of charity with the modesty and worth of the other.
The conceit of the man -- comparing his own work with Picasso's!
He was a man full of vanity and self-conceit; a man who, instead of sober despatches to his superiors in England, wrote flowery accounts of himself and his wonderful doings;
I did it in my way, but he thought a different explanation would fit better. My overweening conceit made me stick to my guns and argue the point with him at length.
What do I mean by conceit?
The conceit and the language skew a little older, so this is a nifty book to read with your kids.
"The Castle in the Forest" is a gleeful hodgepodge of ideas, held together by this Satanic conceit.
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