They were fundamentalisms built on the very weak intellectual conceits of a master race and a Communist revolution.

Those who have found limited reward in the intellectual conceits that underlie the composer's music might argue that he has been overly stimulated by this maxim.

And then it's just an intellectual conceit.

He has little use for such intellectual conceits as trickery and delicate subterfuge, but instead has built his reputation on bold, head-on attacks.

"Fighting deflation" has, for the most part, been an intellectual conceit - a deception now made more difficult by the latest inflation numbers.

It isn't an intellectual conceit.

It's an intellectual conceit to think that nature is simple.

Strauss wanted flesh-and-blood characters, while Hofmannsthal leaned toward effete intellectual conceits.

Of course, many of the songs' intellectual conceits were trivial, weighing in at about one feather on the profundity scale.

They spend most of their time eating, drinking, and holding forth on their personal intellectual conceits.