Word: conceitedness
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Wyler is neither cocky nor objectionably conceited, but he vigorously maintains that "the best picture or star in the world is not worth a tinker's damn without good direction." His pictures speak for him: These Three, Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel, Wuthering Heights, The Letter, The Little Foxes, etc...
Publisher Horace Liveright guided Ilka somewhat through England. She "never liked Horace much-he was rude to waiters"-but he took her to see George (Confessions of a Young Man) Moore, who unexpectedly pinched her behind. Somewhat encouraged, Ilka ventured to ask the fiercely conceited Master what he thought of...
He was a great man-for a day. But he was old from years in prison, sick with ulcers and jaundice. He had not worn his martyrdom well; he broke with modest Warren K. Billings, who was convicted with him and who somehow was never regarded as a martyr; he...
You certainly conceited are;
Periodically there erupts in the U. S. A. a campaign to smear John Edgar Hoover. Among his ill-wishers are some newspapermen who believe Hoover is conceited, arrogant, publicity-hungry. They do not like him any better because Columnist Walter Winchell is continually claiming the inside track on crime stories...