Word: conceitedness
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There were the perennial complaints about Cliffies being "conceited" and "affected" and "too agressively intellectual." One boy asked, "Is it really true that a girl has to be ugly to get into Radcliffe?" And another insisted, "I've seen better-looking North Dakota Indian squaws."
As she was completing her autobiography last April, Dame Edith Sitwell was asked how she felt. "Dying, but apart from that I'm all right," she replied. A little later, she remarked that as a Roman Catholic (she became a convert in 1955), "I know I ought not to...
He consistently turned aside, however, requests for him to evaluate his own or someone else's work. "This is not the place for it," he said. "Besides, you would think I was conceited." For Charlie Chaplin, however, he made an exception, terming him "one of the greatest artist who has...
Arrogant & Conceited. Harry apparently didn't give a damn either when, halfway through taping the two-part MacArthur series last March, he heard that MacArthur was gravely ill. "I'm going to die soon too," he snapped as he ordered the show to go on. "We're...
"A lottery," wrote Political Economist Sir William Petty in the 17th century, "is properly a tax upon unfortunate, self-conceited fools. The Sovereign should have guard of these fools, even as in the case of lunatics and idiots." Sir William's prim strictures have been echoed through the centuries...