Sentence examples for your conceit from inspiring English sources

At the time, the judge admonished him and four co-defendants, "These were blatant and impertinent frauds, carried out in my opinion rather clumsily, but such was your conceit that you thought yourselves smart enough to get away with it".

"What Have You Got to Lose", a ballad, offers the plea: "Sin and shame, guilt and pain, pride and your conceit / Here and now lay them down at the Savior's feet".

To lose the plot around the hour-and-20-minute mark is a common failing – but to do so without abandoning your core conceit is, if not flying, then at least falling with style.

And ultimately, it was the get-your-hands-messy conceit of the whole shebang: Make the cut for this class and we are going to throw you headlong at some major real-world problems put forth by the U.S. State Department and see what products you can come up with to solve them.

The conceit of your columns and the root of your appeal is that you write and rant from the perspective of a regular — if obsessive — fan, but over the years you've moved out to Hollywood and become a prominent ESPN figure.

leans hard on this "not-your-standard-spinoff material" conceit.

"And there is, no question, something satisfying — as the pleasure of the story's pop conceit hits your deep historical outrage — about watching Lincoln decapitate a slave-trading ghoul, at least the first few dozen times.

Elsewhere, the minutiae of love are insightfully addressed in songs like the swampy Southern soul plaint "Stand Right By Each Other" and especially the country-rocker "Stowaway in Your Heart", a beautiful conceit sure to become a standard.

In him you are meant to see your own lovable lug, but the conceit is a total canard.

Relying on a panoply of torture tricks reminiscent of your basic dictatorship (notwithstanding the obscene American conceit that ours is a more elevated, controlled form of torture), we watch as U.S. agents extract information from a string of prisoners.

The central conceit is that it communicates with your phone, making all kinds of cool features possible.