Sentence examples for such conceit from inspiring English sources

Mr Sarkozy (l'Américain, as his detractors term him), has no such conceit.

The EU, with its grand currency project and regulations for everything, exemplifies such conceit.

Moreover, such conceit is becoming more prevalent thanks to the postmodern culture of self-obsession and morbid introspection.

Never in the history of the nation has any great party been led by a man who praises his own wealth with such conceit and claims this as his qualification for the presidency.

Such conceits are worked into the text with obsessive care.

Such conceits can only have come from puffed-up Murdoch sources which have always overplayed their (admittedly) considerable importance.

Some of these far-fetched conceits showed themselves in The Boke of Saint Albans (1486) by Juliana Berners, and yet, by comparison with the vast mass of nonsense contained in the folios of the 16th century, such conceits were not entirely unreasonable.

Allegorical groups by Antonio Corradini and Francesco Queirolo vie with each other in virtuosity and include such conceits as fishnets cut from solid marble and the all-revealing shrouds developed by Giuseppe Sammartino.

Too often — and this may be a problem with such conceits — Jaffe, a former editor of Smithsonian magazine's Web site, strains to make his case for the road's place in history, telling us about curious happenings and personalities that came in contact with the road but left little significant impact.

The novel's near-fatal flaw is that Rose's bizarre moral choices and his situation as a victim of torture appear to be taken for granted, so eager is Duncan to use such conceits to examine Rose's nature as your everyday Western man.

There doesn't seem to be such a conceit, but I enjoyed the solve anyway.