Word: conceited
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...dancer goes; skillful hands and manners sleek--broken hearts and droll bezique." So twitters and is twitted, and Hollywood dissembles another vapidity as young as the world, trotting out the freshly dusted effigies of Eros as it cheers the hero on to freedom from the thralldom of his conceit...
...have found its proper level. A "classic," he is no longer widely read, except in abridgments, but his reputation as a No. 1 English writer is not therefore less secure. Dickens "did for the whole English-speaking race what Burns had done for Scotland-he gave it a new conceit of itself." An unliterary author, he wrote for his immediate audience, and much of what he wrote died with his readers. Says Oxford's late Thomas Seccombe: "Dickens had no artistic ideals worth speaking about. The sympathy of his readers was the one thing he cared about...
...hoped, that the axiom in this instance may justly apply. These references have to do with your editorial of February thirteenth, in which, under the nom de plume Nemo, and with freedom of expression that is startlingly unique, you crack open the nut of smug, self-conceit, and expose the "Kernel" (Charles A. Lindbergh) in most commendable fashion...
Sitting Pretty (Paramount) concerns two songwriters, one serious (Jack Haley) and one deluded by conceit (Jack Oakie), who hitchhike from Manhattan to Hollywood, there indulge in romance, alcohol and creative work. Haley becomes attached to a blonde waif (Ginger Rogers) who meets the pair on their way West, follows them to Hollywood. Oakie grows fond of an erratic actress (Thelma Todd), who abandons him when he loses...
...family was connected with the Dutch branch of Goupil et Cie., famous Paris art dealers, and both Vincent and Theo got jobs in the business. Theo did well from the start, but Vincent took it, like everything else, too hard. Fired from his job, he plucked up enough conceit to enter the Church as a lay-reader, got himself sent to a squalid hole in Belgium as a missionary. There too he went too far, scandalized the churchly authorities by giving away his money, his clothes, his bed. Fired again, he stayed on with his poor people, began to draw...