(1) No, that's an art-historical conceit - a narrative device.

(2) This is a first feature from documentarist Tareque Masud, autobiographical, but refreshingly without egotism or conceit .

(3) He looked at the miracle of his creation of the Khalsa and attributed it to the Khalsa, without pride or conceit .

(4) That's the conceit of filmmaker Jeffrey Blitz, who set out with digital video camera in hand to document the 1999 U.S. National Spelling Bee championship.

(5) ALTHOUGH IT IS an old idea, the conceit that faith can maintain its hold on the imagination only as long as there are blinkers on human vision still has considerable appeal.

(6) Sep did not, however, enact as noticeable a development as Donne, whose early u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Songs and Sonnetsu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb are amorous works heavily using metaphysical conceit .

(7) Indeed, conceit , arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

(8) He was puffed up with conceit

(9) It's a brilliant conceit , and for the most part works wonderfully.

(10) Now it is as though the erosion of place has gone so far that exile is a hopeless conceit ; if all places are interchangeable, with a McDonald's on every corner, there is no margin left to haunt.

(11) Shadow of the Vampire is a fictionalization of a true event, taking off from a brilliant conceit , that the director of a vampire film would hire a real vampire to play the leading role.

(12) Those are very difficult paths to walk, to be up front about taking that stuff seriously, and not just using it as a trope or a conceit .

(13) Such successes sometimes induce a spirit of conceit and vanityu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u252cu00ac people not infrequently become intoxicated by this kind of successu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u252cu00ac

(14) Like Pale Fire, Lolita begins with an immoderate conceit that allows its author and reader to explore the extravagant, pleasurable, and disturbing fringes of the language.

(15) Or is Dennett, full of hubris and conceit , the new god?

(16) U251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510You are an unlovely mixture of conceit and arrogance,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb one South African MP told another in 1969.

(17) Designing architecture with the conceit of engendering community as a predominant concern is refreshing in its conceptual distance from profit motive.

(18) Western rationality and pride in democracy can seem an intolerable, parochial conceit to those whose lives have been so violently disturbed.

(19) The director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale in black and white

(20) This poem takes the conceit of a shared video library membership card as emblematic of relationship cohesion and breakdown in a gesture that is almost joking.