Word: conceitedness
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"Though I am not conceited," writes [James Montgomery] Flagg [TIME, Sept. 30], "I am a vain creature." What does he mean by the distinction?
"Though I am not conceited," writes Flagg, "I am a vain creature." Whatever he means by the distinction, he has some excuse for vanity. He sold his first drawing (to St. Nicholas magazine) when he was twelve, went on to earn as much as $75,000 a year from his...
The grey old man was surely "the sounding bell of this world," wrote Russian Novelist Maxim Gorky. "Surely he is great and holy, [although] sometimes he seems to be conceited and intolerant, like a Volga preacher." Sometimes it was "painfully unpleasant" to hear his comments on women: "a string of...
... I saw [Warlord of Mazelaine-champion boxer-TIME, Feb. 25] in a show last year, and I found that he was very conceited in his own doggish manner. Could it be that he realizes his importance in the dog world? I don't think it is like a boxer...
For nearly a month, Moscow's censors had hardly touched blue pencil to any correspondent's copy (TIME, Nov. 19). But Randolph Churchill, the conceited son of a great man, was still being censored.