Word: conceitedly
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...Then one becomes aware that the whole form of the tree has been patiently excavated, by carving, from the sawed block. Working backward into the wood from knots, Penone has raised the buried ghost of the tree as it looked when it was younger. This may sound a simple conceit, but it is not: the finished sculpture, almost "nature" but not quite, also relates in a subtle way to the organic spiral form of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim ramp...
...rather minor, his tyrannical presence guides all the actions to their tragic conclusion. Gerrit Nicolas captures Henry's physical presence with his rotundity and temperamental facial expressions. But Nicolas doesn't stupefy or terrify the audience as his character does in the play because he's missing the regal conceit that makes a man a true king. And Henry's actions make friends turn into enemies and enemies turn into power-crazed villians...
...main problem is that LeBaron is more than an observer. He is the star--in fact, he is the only intelligent being in his book. Sometimes he's open with his conceit: "But I had guts, all right. Better to act modest though." More often he simply takes to demeaning all those around him. His professors are generally insulting, harsh, sexist, and self-satisfied. His fellow students are completely absorbed in their books, frustrated, awed, and for the most part heartless cowards. According to LeBaron, they aren't even interested in what they study...
...title formula is for a synthetic fuel invented by Nazi scientists. The conceit is that it has been kept off the market since World War II by the oil interests in order to keep up the price of crude. A sometime Los Angeles cop and his wife are killed when it looks as if they are about to go public with the secret. The search for their killers-and the precious equations they were killed for-leads Detective George C. Scott to Germany and Switzerland and to involvement not only with remnants of the Third Reich but with modern terrorists...
...YEARS AGO Enrique Lopez gathered together the most galling anecdotes about Harvard students and their legendary conceit he could find. He saran-wrapped the stories in discussions about the privilege of the exceptional, and arranged the packages in neat rows labelled with the names of the famous. He offered the formless, appalling concoction as The Harvard Mystique, more like a warmed-over TV dinner than a book, and called it an investigation of the conditions of acceptance into, attendance, and graduation from the oldest of Ivy League institutions...