Sentence examples for form of conceit from inspiring English sources
(Toward the end of "The Dalkey Archive," a character delivers what feels like the author's own credo of authorship: "One must write outside oneself. I'm fed up with writers who put a fictional gloss over their own squabbles and troubles. It's a form of conceit, and usually it's very tedious").
To recognize your self-worth — not in the form of vanity nor of conceit that is spoken of — but of loving yourself and finding your self-worth.
When Beatty and Hoffman play small-timers, it's a reverse conceit, a form of affectation.
Ancient myths are utilized also in the form of passing allusions or poetic "conceits," much as modern Westerners may speak of Cupid or the Muses.
"It's not out of conceit," he said.
Accordingly, they set to work to eradicate the spirit of conceit in another way.
"Today I respect structure, the antithesis of conceit," he announces in "Midsummer".
For all its visual power, Aqua is mostly free of conceit.
Song: Disease of Conceit.
There are elements of conceit and haughtiness.
