Word: conceitedly
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...which distinguish French acting, are in delightful abundance. Jeanne Cheirel, a French Alison Skipworth, is gruffly ingratiating as the Duchesse de Treville; Vanda Greville, without being obvious, is uproariously graceless as the English girl, and Jeanne Tissier, playing the lionized love-lecturer, creates a subtle balance between timidity and conceit. All the players live their parts, and are doubly humorous in being unconscious of their humor...
...Credo. Santayana has expressed that philosophy most frankly in an essay. On My Friendly Critics, written soon after the War: "I do not mind being occasionally denounced for atheism, conceit, or detachment. One has to be oneself; and so long as the facts are not misrepresented . . . any judgment based upon them is a two-edged sword: people simply condemn what condemns them. . . . My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image. . . . My detachment from things and persons is also affectionate, and simply what the ancients called...
...Broad reform of children's programs. Typical new policy: "conceit, smugness, or an unwarranted sense of superiority over others less fortunate may not be presented as laudable." Banned are "programs that arouse harmful nervous reactions in the child...
...will probably receive letters claiming the Dizzy one for Arkansas, although why we should want to be attached to that buffoon is more than I can understand. Man's conceit takes strange forms...
...Vernon Rickenbacker. Since his early days as an automobile racer, sports editors have been his friends and drinking companions. Home from the War, ace of U. S. aces, wearer of the Distinguished Service Cross, Congressional Medal of Honor, Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honor, he never affected the slightest conceit. As a high-powered executive first in the automobile business, later in commercial aviation, he continued his easygoing camaraderie with managing editors and callow cubs alike...