Sentence examples for for conceit from inspiring English sources

Even then he might underestimate it, but it would bear him no resentment, for conceit was not a vice from which robots often suffered".

The scene, as I have curated it, concludes with the Queen rebuffing Bushy's assertion that her grief is "nothing but conceit". It is, she says, "nothing less," for "conceit is still derived from some forefather grief" (ll. 34-35).

If the firm's reputation for conceit outlives Mr Raymond, it will hurt efforts to court countries with energy resources.Green with envyIt will also prove a handicap in dealing with environmentalism, another emerging threat to the business.

To top it all off, Mr. Krugman compares Mr. Obama's ability to inspire and organize to George W. Bush's demonstrated penchant for conceit and self-indulgence in Operation Flight Suit.

"My Favorite Martian," "Mister Ed" and "My Mother the Car" were all founded on the same careful-what-you-wish-for conceit: the hero finds himself saddled with a soul mate whom nobody else could believe in, let alone understand: an extraterrestrial, a talking horse or even a talking car.

Another recent movie dealing with mental illness, Creation, is notable not so much for its acting as for its conceit that Charles Darwin, the embodiment or avatar, if I may use the term, of the man of science, experienced hallucinations.

What gave you the idea for this conceit?

Humbleness is in order; there is no excuse for scientific conceit here".

As a critic, he was known in particular for "Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory," published in 1959.

It is well acted but, like "Myrtle Beach," a play by the publicist-turned-filmmaker Dan Klores, it is notable largely for its conceit.

Taking the anguish out of that story does less to redeem it than to deflate it, and we wonder at the need for this conceit of termination in the first place.