conceit

It was the conceit of an old man, he knew.

And that has never been anything more than a conceit.

For all of his conceit the waiting was beginning to tell on him.

The director allows the conceit to do too much of the work.

I'll just show you one or two new things and see how your conceit stands up to them.

It must be a conceit then that I address myself to anyone.

In some ways the whole conceit was also a little comforting.

There was also the conceit of two men reading books on music stands.

The book was more than a conceit or a pet project.

But in many cases, being religious is merely a form of conceit.

But the conceit is a bit too metaphysical to make sense.

This one is not bound by the conceits of his own people.

This may be no more than a conceit of mine, but I am sure it has.

The conceit is dangerous, but it must have seemed necessary.

This conceit has been used since the beginning of narrative sound film.

The conceit that they would impose their will on the world.

It could be a conceit designed for a rock garden.

To me, it is the ultimate conceit to think you know someone better than he knows himself.

Without conceit, he told me: "I'm a ones and can go on playing the same music for ever."

Hard to say - even he doesn't know about the age conceit at first.

It's conceit for a writer, an editor, to think he knows what the public can understand.

At least his search for power had not been a strictly human conceit.

If this sounds more like a conceit than a novel, it is.

Not through vanity, conceit, to see whether damage had been done her looks.

Perhaps the conceit was closer to the truth than he imagined?