Word: conceitedness
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Will you please congratulate Boris Chaliapin on his Hussein cover? The conceited, defiant "look what I've done" on Hussein's face is superb:
In Red China there was a belated and cautious reappraisal of Stalin. The former great leader, said the People's Dally, was "conceited and not circumspect," his thinking "subjective and one-sided." He carried the "extermination of counterrevolutionaries to excess" and showed "lack of necessary vigilance'' on...
Ickes saw himself as a modest man. He was genuinely hurt when he was portrayed, at a Gridiron Club dinner, as a strutting, vain Donald Duck. Said he: "Of course this was really offensive . . . No man is a judge of himself, but I have completely fooled myself if I give...
In Chicago, where many newspapermen still work in the Front Page tradition, Chicago Daily News Columnist Sydney J. (for Justin) Harris, 35, uses a more intellectual text as his guide. Says he: "I'm just a second-string Aristotle." By serving up his batch of high-and lowbrow opinions...
Cousteau describes one attack in detail: "My mind was jammed with conceited thoughts and antic joy. I struggled to fix my brain on reality, to attempt to name the color of the sea about me ... navy blue, aquamarine and Prussian blue. The debate would not resolve. The sole fact I...