Sentence examples for with conceit from inspiring English sources

Think of some evanescent emotion — apprehension mixed with conceit, say.

Peter lives almost exclusively in the present: he is "tingling with life and also top-heavy with conceit".

It redresses some of the forces of deference which bolster the conceit of the second-rate; it also prevents the first-rate from going mad with conceit".

He makes her his new star and when he does, there is a brilliant moment when Jesse smiles for the first time like all the others: smiles with conceit, vanity and cruelty, relishing the other models' defeated envy.

A decade and a half ago, the distinguished critic William Gass fulminated against the whole genre in a scathing Harper's essay, in which he asked, rhetorically, whether there were "any motives for the enterprise that aren't tainted with conceit or a desire for revenge or a wish for justification?

Seem humble to fill them with conceit.

Just as Jackson has his beefs with jug wine, which has failed to give American wine a good name, so does he quarrel with conceits of the "name" boutique vintners who shrink from scale.

His last band, also with Mr. Lage and three other prodigies, was called Generations, formed with the conceit of giving the whole ensemble a push.

The book arrives with a conceit.

But let's go with his conceit.

Some intellectuals are reluctant to go along with the conceit.