Word: conceitedly
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...Provincial Conceit." But Japan's Socialists, along with many others who genuinely fear a revival of Shinto, were flatly opposed to the government's bill. "Foundation Day," snapped one young business executive, "should be the day Japan surrendered." The government, modifying its bill, dropped the controversial word kigensetsu, added rather apologetically that Japan has been admitted to the U.N., and that it was "appropriate" for the country to have a holiday celebrating national foundation. Japanese politicians for the most part were doubtful that they could push the bill through-or at least the Feb. 11 date. "We cannot...
...robust one. Mao, he said, is a "distinguished Marxist-Leninist" who has made a "major contribution to Marxist-Leninist theory." Mao appeared content. In the congress' opening speech, he told the 1,122 party stalwarts: "We must never become arrogant and complacent . . . Humility helps one make progress, whereas conceit makes one blind...
While Schlesinger's reputation as a political writer and a scholar has increased, the myth about his arrogance has also grown. This myth originates not so much from any personal conceit, but from his intense identification with liberalism. In informal discussions of current issues like segregation, he becomes caustic and impatient in defense of militant liberalism. "Why should the under-dog be patient while he gets kicked in the teeth?" he demands. "We don't need caution so much as sound reasoning and the courage to apply it." This impatience with conservatism appears brash to critics who hear him debate...
...crude and contrived gag, but Johnston insists that he is serious. His moral is that he has crossed the nine rivers of experience and reached his long-sought goal: an understanding of war, which is too terrible for a man to live with. Such fatalism-and conceit-seems out of character with the life-lusty Irishman revealed in the book's earlier pages...
Ghost on My Shoulder. Pilot Bridgeman tells his story with pride but not conceit. He tells of the things he had to learn till they became second nature, e.g., reverse breathing at high altitude, when a tank forces oxygen into his lungs and he has to breathe it out. He explains how many hours he spends studying and how many sweating. Every two weeks for three months he climbed down from the B-29 into his rocket ship. Each time the flight was called off. Finally he began to toss a utilitarian Dixie container, betraying his nervousness, over the side...