Word: conceitedness
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George Barker's novel is the story of a sick young dog who would rather sniff in his misery than get well. As such, it is a reekingly unpleasant book; when the author waxes lyrical and theological about his nasty little mess, it becomes a conceited one. Nevertheless, The...
With television and radio commitments Russell's income is already well up in five figures, and there is a three-month picture-making stint in Hollywood coming up "I'll never be conceited," he says. "I've just got something to sell and my job is to...
Colored by years and events, the editors who worked with him today remember FDR variously as "a cocky, conceited chap with a great name but nothing much else," the best "mixer of claret punch for the semi-annual initiations of new editors," an "energetic, resourceful, and independent" person, and a...
"I didn't realize Harvard had such as inferiority complex," said a freshman, opposed by a sophomore from the same hall, whose experience had found Crimson men to be "conceited--on masse."
"An angakok doesn't consider sinful what a white preacher considers sinful, but knows only one kind of sin - that which harms the community . . . An angakok . . . believes in every spirit [but] the white men are exceedingly narrow-minded and conceited people, and that's the reason why they...