Sentence examples for a conceited character from inspiring English sources

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He plays a conceited character who is victimised by a sexually aggressive woman – a trope he would reprise twice more (in Basic Instinct and Disclosure) to complete a steamy trifecta of erotic thrillers.

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He stood out, in the words of Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Sandherr, head of intelligence, as reported to a young diplomat, for "his indiscreet curiosity, his constant snooping, his air of mystery, and finally his false and conceited character, in which one recognises all the pride and all the ignominy of his race".

Mr Logue emerges as a discontented, contradictory, fastidious character, a conceited pontificator on the one hand, but sensitive, self-aware and observant on the other.

Before AIDS, he said: "I must have been a conceited ass, full of knowledge.

Far from a conceited gesture, he showed himself as one of the damned.

(Lizzy calls him, in a letter to her sister, a "conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man").

Miller went on to describe Higgins as "a conceited, arrogant fop" and "a shallow idiot".

Is a conceited fellow by his own admission, and likes to eat.

One, Tom Musgrave, is a conceited flirt; another, Lord Osborne, is a diffident aristo; a third, Mr Howard, is a sententious clergyman.

It's a conceited semi-stoner adventure set on Christmas Eve, with mawkish top notes of male self-pity.

When I spoke with LIN Es John Park and San Beak, I asked them what they thought of critics who say taking a selfie is a conceited or vain act.

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