Sentence examples similar to sheer conceit from inspiring English sources
The difficulty with (6*)–(8*), I think, is that (8*) does not stipulate what it is about yourself that you are required to value, so that this could be my sheer particularity (self-conceit), or if I am not in fact human, my non-human nature (Satan).
The Musical" rests a little too smugly on the sheer absurdity of its conceit, which is itself a little shopworn at this point.
Nor does it come close to elating through the sheer imagination of its conceits and storytelling".
Despite the literal confines of its subject, the play — directed with authority by Ari Edelson and energetically acted — is excessively stocked with characters, conceits, dark jokes, and sheer oddities.
But even these relatively simple moments are transformed and complicated by the sheer audacity of Larraín's stylistic conceits.
While she'd have been reluctant to form the vain conceit outright, it was perhaps tempting to regard the sheer insertion of her physical presence as a gift, one akin to showing up at the door with roses.
They write fluid, fast prose and strive to capture the sheer absurdity of ordinary American life in Technicolor plots and high- concept conceits.
Sheer fear, sheer terror.
