Sentence examples for conceited performance from inspiring English sources
Ben (a blandly conceited performance by Viggo Mortensen) has taken his six children away from America's soul-rotting consumerist nonsense to live a tough, pure survivalist lifestyle in the forests of the Pacific Northwest – drilling them to athletic perfection and teaching them about Chomsky and Dostoyevsky.
This preface is indeed a very conceited performance and the poem though in some passages of first-rate excellence is on the whole of very inferior execution".
Welles's performance as Lime is superb: blustering, conceited, charming.
His performance is entirely indulgent, without ordinary human nuance: it is frankly just conceited and dull.
Feel free to borrow Thaxter's comment, for instance, on "the ever watchable [Hattie] Morahan in a beautifully detailed performance" or Mountford's about how "Francesca Annis pitches it perfectly as the conceited, slightly foolish matriarch".
But the wise counsel of an aged, nostalgic tragedian, invoking and imparting the great tradition of Shakespearean performance, stands the young ham in good stead, and he returns to New York triumphant, contemptuous, and conceited, only to receive his comeuppance.
He also seemed rather conceited.
