Sentence examples for mere conceit from inspiring English sources

In each myth, water works as a natural habitat, not a mere conceit.

Indeed, it is no mere conceit to say that M.M.O.'s are just as much economies as games.

"America in the King Years," Branch's running title for the trilogy, is not a mere conceit, a fancy way of describing a biography.

The thesis that we are in a simulation is, as people who track such things know my own college-age son has explained it to me far from a joke, or a mere conceit.

These tacos, a mere conceit for delivering high-caliber food in a kicked-back style at modest prices, are as Californian as the Beach Boys, and every item on the menu is just what the restaurant owners love to eat.

And while some of the numbers, like a treacly bit in which a woman lures a proud white brute to drink from her palm, are mere conceits, the obvious care and pleasure with which the trainers treat their glorious charges (and vice versa) is lovely to see.

But he cannot help admitting that what may have seemed like a mere casting conceit may turn into a more meaningful concept.

"Indeed, we feel that if the idea of aristocracy is more than mere class conceit, then these surely are our natural queens".

The princess's ruminations on the cruelty of hunting the deer she will shoot so expertly are delivered with a sobriety that reminds us that death is, after all, no mere metaphysical conceit.

May 4 Time, and many others, offer obligatory, semi-mea culpas ("The idea that a President can be assessed in a mere 100 days is a journalistic conceit," writes Joe Klein in a solid analysis for an issue whose cover heralds, ah, "100 Days").

The conceit, too, is simple.