Word: conceitedness
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Even though Saud had refrained from any political statements until last week, Feisal cut off Saud's princely pension as soon as he arrived in Egypt and embraced Nasser. His three-day triumphal "state visit" to Yemen was all the more ironical because it was Saud who in 1962...
The tale tells of the "conceited, but nice" Mr. Toad whose penchant for motorcars and accidents lands him in jail for twenty years. However, thank God, he escapes and with the solicitous aid of his friends Badger, Waterrat and Mole is resorted to the lordship of his ancestral Toad Hall...
Poking the Foibles. One of his most satiric series was his dozen oils of Hu-dibras, the central figure in Samuel Butler's scathing poem on puritanical hypocrisy. Hudibras was ignorant, conceited, preachy, distempered, vain-a cocksure jackass. Butler used him to poke fun at reformers, and so did...
Sir: It is a sad commentary on the times we live in that those who try to achieve some measure of privacy are usually looked upon as strange, conceited or even antisocial. But this is a small price to pay for something one cannot live without.
Previn won purity when he was invited to conduct the Houston Symphony four years ago. The city, with plenty of fierce pride in its fine orchestra and practically no prejudice against Hollywood, gave him high critical acclaim, has invited him back to conduct every year since then. Now he is...