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

They fill their minds with human conceits, and their houses with toys.

Still, he clearly subscribes to that essential human conceit that God is on the pew beside us, a member of our own sect.

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit.

The discovery finally demolished the human conceit that Earth is the center of the solar system, even the universe.

Proximity to the river made sense, but he had no doubt that proximity to the mountains was a human aesthetic conceit.

Perhaps cancer was the Almighty's punishment for human conceit.

Names are a human conceit, I think.

I waited restlessly in a place where fragile human conceits like time had no meaning.