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Перевод: conceit

[существительное]
тщеславие; самомнение; самонадеянность ; чванство; причудливый образ;
[глагол]
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Тезаурус:

1. Regressive rock's sin is its lack of conceit, its cultivation of EMPTYHEADEDNESS and navet, its refusal to stretch beyond a shallow delving into the slight pangs of mundane love and small sadness.
2. The two had much in common: conceit, fame, unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress.
3. The idea of the traffic as waves is a traditional romantic conceit, uniting elemental nature and man-made metropolis.
4. Almost any of these writers might have supplied, for instance, details of the importance of the wind in primitive supernatural beliefs, but the idea of "the wind's singing" is also a prime romantic conceit, as seen in the "gentle breeze" which wafts through The Prelude , or in the notion of the Aeolian harp.
5. There is nothing exactly comparable in the poem by Hardy which Paulin brings into comparison, "The Souls of the Slain" (1899, about the dead of the Boer War), but whether or not Dryden was the intermediary, the conceit and fable of the poem undoubtedly derive from this moment in Virgil:
6. "He wanted to talk to me anyway, the French gentleman", said Thomas, oozing conceit.
7. Thank God my self-consciousness is something nobler than vulgar conceit in having done something.
8. Eliot's linking of noises from the Steppes with those of the London Underground is an extreme version of this conceit.
9. The more inglorious aspects of Morrison's life and behaviour, and the undignified myth-making indulged in by his "followers" aren't concealed, but then Jones doesn't exactly run the hoary old rock conceit of romantic self-destruction out of town either: "Humility was a trait which didn't sit well with Morrison" is about as heavy as the criticism gets.
10. A certain schoolmasterly tone enters the prose: "there is an undeniable talent here, I grant you but it's frittered away in self indulgence and conceit.
11. But the distinguishing feature of those films (even if they cannot quite be credited with inventing the conceit) was what might be called their sense of the inverted anachronism.
12. This ill-advised conceit casts a pall on the piece from the outset, and it doesn't help that the skits (rewritten and reconstructed) are crushingly unfunny.
13. Opposite the tomb, at the other side of the transept, is a statue of St Bartholomew, remarkable for its subject and for its conceit.