Exempel på conceit

• One could luxuriate for long hours in similar acousmatic conceits and their morbid implications, all those sinister telephone voices.

• In his opening pages he almost falls over his own metatextual conceits.

• Such literary conceits demanded hard labours for composers who took inspiration from them.

• One poem impresses through its pathos, the other through its rhetorical subtlety and bold conceits.

• He faults them, to be sure, for their 'want of variety' and extravagant conceits.

• The conceits point to a monstrous self-perversion, the forfeiting of integrity and the living out of a lie at which, moreover, his mind or heart knowingly connives.

• The former produces a feverish versatility of perception, a fantasia of epistemological pluralism, whose mercurial conceits are no more 'uncertain and adulterate' than their mutating physical objects.

• The two had much in common: conceit, fame, unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress.

• Yannis is correct to point out the problem of this academic conceit which effectively masks the political and emotional biases of the archaeologists themselves.

• Their opposition to the radical nationalists sprang from a profound social conceit.

• Nevertheless, there was a plebeian drift to his posture of political admiralship, even if it was most frequently articulated as a loyalist conceit.

• His conceit, in this essay, is that of convergent evolution, whereby different species develop in similar ways in response to similar environmental pressures.

• What a high price we expect from our people in order to humour the conceits of their elites!

• We are all big men in our own conceits but, after all, we are only employés of the men.

• I had better not admit how many because that might be rather conceited of me.