Sentence examples similar to a degree of conceit from inspiring English sources
To the outsider's eye these complaints tend to display a high degree of pettiness and conceit, as with the applicant for a medical job with the commission who argued that his non-hiring was explicable only by a prejudice on the commission's part against Swedish medical qualifications.
At the time of reunification, Beijing pledged to endow Hong Kong with a "high degree of autonomy" under a deal called "one country, two systems". But it was a fragile conceit, and, this summer, it failed.
"George Dantzig had a kindly personality, free of conceit or condescension," said Richard W. Cottle, professor emeritus of management science and engineering.
Song: Disease of Conceit.
There are elements of conceit and haughtiness.
He is a man of unblemished conceit, immaculate selfishness.
He called the statements a show of "incredible conceit" and disrespect for voters.
Unison is less of a choreographic conceit than a way to show how a tribe moves with one pulse.
Some songs feature a lyrical conceit of an emotionally elusive lover as an apparition or an illusion.
