conceit 的 2 个定义
- an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc.
- something that is conceived in the mind; a thought; idea: He jotted down the conceits of his idle hours.
- imagination; fancy.
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- to flatter.
- British Dialect. to take a fancy to; have a good opinion of.
- Obsolete. to imagine.to conceive; apprehend.
conceit 近义词
egotism
更多conceit例句
- By the time she reaches her desperate endgame, however, he has taken us beyond the tropes of his faux-horror conceit and brought us squarely into the climax of a caper film.
- While this conceit might feel forced in the hands of a lesser writer, Mendelsohn pulls it off surprisingly well.
- Even if you believe that to be so, Cassie’s doggedness is an exhausting and not particularly deep conceit for a film.
- If we accept the conceit of Gray’s book and just look at how cats live, then maybe we can learn a thing or two.
- All of that could have been alleviated, perhaps, by a cast capable of finding truth within the conceits and translating them to the screen in a form that at least resonates with real human emotion.
- Wolf concurs that the conceit of the show seems to have everyone but the sex worker in mind.
- So the heaviness was not so much a literary conceit but something I wanted to talk about.
- Because that conceit was straight/gay vs straight/straight, I could do a lot of overtly straight humor and it would be acceptable.
- But Sex Box, with its ridiculous guinea pigs screwing conceit, will only augment our cultural hang-ups about sex.
- And this is how we arrive at the lovely conceit of Scarlett Johansson as an alien seductress.
- Having seen no service, he owed his appointment largely to his conceit and good looks.
- I am out of conceit with England just now; and would far rather have gone to the Antipodes.
- It would argue too much literary conceit on my part were I anxious to restore it to the light of day.
- It came to Lowell in a flash that Bill's arrogance sprang from something deeper than mere conceit or drunkenness.
- He is made to talk like a man of the greatest vanity and conceit, and to throw contempt and scorn on everybody else.