Word: conceited
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Although it calls for a woman of charm and wit, Miss Lawrence's role at the same time portrays selfishness, conceit, superficiality, self-consciousness and scarcely an ounce of sincerity. That she can play such a part and still hold her audience entranced is a tribute to the debonair Lawrence of England. Her precise timing, her walk, her little habit of patting her bosom and her clothes (by Hattic Carnegie) all contribute to the ensemble, but Miss Lawrence achieves most of her effect with her voice. Like none which she has used in the past, it ranges from the affected...
...propagandist is aware of the fact that most people pride themselves on being reasonable individuals willing to be convinced by argument but impervious to a campaign based on emotional irritants and falsehoods, and takes advantage of it. President Conant warns against this conceit, stating that "Vanity badly armed with partial knowledge is sure to be overthrown...
...Vice Premier also declared and the People's Commissars affirmed that "self-satisfaction and conceit" are prevalent vices among the Soviet Arctic scientists; moreover, that under Hero Schmidt there have been employed "methods of selecting personnel which provided an excellent base for the criminal anti-Soviet activities of wreckers...
...Forget everything the Party taught you and remember you are a dog of a swine like the rest of these raw recruits!" If the Nazi has been an officer in the political Storm Troops, the Army sergeants up to now have been even harsher in knocking the conceit out of him. This attitude, raised from the brutality of a sergeant to the suavity of a general, was what Dictator Hitler encountered last week from General von Fritsch. and in Berlin it was believed that the generals urged...
...influence of the later Yeats--in particular, I think, of "The Second Coming"--Mr. Brown has tried for the compression and suggestiveness of symbolist poetry. The difficulties of such a technique are great. In stanza 4 the strained Apollo-Daphne pattern of symbols sticks out like a bad metaphysical conceit; while in stanza 5, the symbols are blurred, which in turn gives the lines an affected air of forced subtlety. But at once Mr. Brown returns to the simpler strain in which he is at his best...