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(book review), Brooks's creative and well-executed conceit will have readers searching Wikipedia to look up names and events, even the parts they know are...

conflicting desires, unsteady behaviors and self-conceit. Man, because of this confusion, binds himself with suffering, just like a bird binds itself inside...

and movements of trivial humans, as if he's reading their minds. And his conceit, it's impossible for normal people to tell what he's thinking. His overbearing...

positive karma that giving provides. Moreover, it would create a certain conceit in the monks who would now pick and choose what food to eat. The Buddha...

board ship bound for Tol Eressëa across the sea. In Tolkien's narrative conceit, in which all the writings of Middle-earth are translations from the fictitious...

Bingley and Jane's budding relationship, along with Elizabeth's previous observations of Darcy's arrogance, conceit, and selfish disdain of the feelings of others...

associated with adultery, possibly inspired by their courtship rituals. Their preening and posture saw them linked with the attribute of self-conceit. Children...

any of the foreigners whom I have come into contact with, and does not show outwardly that conceit which makes most of them repugnant in my sight...What...

opening crawl falsely suggests that the film is based on true events, a conceit that contributed to its success. Hooper reportedly hoped that the Motion...

and take his spot for a few minutes while he recovers. In this conceit, Fallon sets up the premise that he had found an angry man ranting on the street...

74:15); violent in his pursuit of wealth (Q.100:8); Full of pride and self-conceit, he forgets that his position and all things afforded to him are by the...

detested Ribbentrop and wrote to King George VI that Ribbentrop was "eaten up with conceit". Henderson argued that the Nazi regime was divided into factions...

Gifford "stands over a contemporary [literary] performance with all the self-conceit and self-importance of a country schoolmaster, tries it by technical...

governing conceit is that Lancaster's sins and the senses through which they enter are wounds which can only be healed once they have been bathed with the milk...

cell phone and checks into the Motel Styx. And the conceit that canonical myths are shaped by Zeus' self-promoting agenda conveys a sophisticated sense of...

factors of the greed-group (lobha): Greed (lobha) Wrong view (diṭṭhi) Conceit (māna) Four mental factors of the hatred-group (dosa) Hatred (dosa) Envy...

mother—and the son—were party to a terror plot. It was sort of a purple conceit in a way. But it was maybe a year and a half after 9/11, and on the 405...

the benefits that they have received, (2) those who from an excessive conceit look upon themselves and not God as the authors of what they receive, and...

the benefits that they have received, (2) those who from an excessive conceit look upon themselves and not God as the authors of what they receive, and...