I have met snuffy, stupid, undutiful, conceited, and snobbish priests, but for me one Fr. Francis outweighs them all. |
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It is quite breathtaking to realise quite how rapacious the industry is and how conceited and vapid are its practitioners. |
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At the centre of the story is the feisty Elizabeth and the conceited Darcy, who initially cannot stand each other but reluctantly fall in love. |
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Charles was arrogant, conceited and a strong believer in the divine rights of kings. |
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It's essential for you not to let yourself appear arrogant and conceited because of this. |
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Very conceited, the men were, with double-barrelled names and chins, new-style rather than old-style gentlemen. |
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I was naive and conceited enough to believe that posting entries into this page would actually achieve something. |
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What stinks worse is the concept that people don't suddenly turn into bad guys, or conceited double-dealers for just one case. |
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That said, it can be frustrating working with conceited, egotistical players. |
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Would it seem conceited to accept a compliment graciously, to acknowledge that there may actually be something praiseworthy about me? |
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A conceited thespian, he treats every introduction as a stage entrance and every conversation is a source of high drama and shameless posturing. |
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But the role of Sandeman brings out the self-important worst in Harris, who delivers an exasperatingly conceited, whispery performance. |
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Not to be vain or conceited, but it was the truth and anyone sensible would agree. |
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Do not be conceited, he who blows his own horn will find people are quick to get out of his way. |
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It is neither affected nor conceited to care about the impression you make. |
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I know that might sound pretty arrogant and conceited but it's true, it's really true. |
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For we now have a conceited Government which in its monumental arrogance can brook no opposition. |
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From the look on their faces, they were probably arrogant, conceited punks who thought they could get any girl they wanted. |
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The printer who sticks to a standard is usually supposed to be arbitrary, autocratic, wilful, conceited, and generally toplofty. |
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It was not that they were too conceited or unforthcoming to open themselves up to external aid. |
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Leith is languid, conceited, a natural leader of men despite his subordinate rank. |
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Still, it is clear she disapproves of his conceited manner and dictatorial inclinations. |
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You have a considerable amount of self-confidence, and you like yourself without being conceited or boastful. |
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There is one clarinet player who's a snot like her, and another whose a little conceited like her, but luckily no one is as mean as she is! |
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He is not alone in saying that some American lawyers and accountants are conceited and arrogant about what they think is a superior system. |
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People looked on that as being conceited or being big-headed. |
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But to be honest, they all look the same to me, conceited and morose. |
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We are supposed to think that they're adorably life-affirming, unreconstructed old scamps, but I have never seen a more charmless and conceited bunch. |
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She was quite certain that this Elizabeth was a conceited snot. |
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Susanoo, becoming conceited over his success, began to play the role of a trickster. |
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Then, typically, she worries that this sounds arrogant or conceited. |
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Roosevelt was deemed to have performed poorly on the campaign trail, appearing to be a lofty, conceited East Coast elitist. |
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He also was the most boring and most conceited of all boxing superstars. |
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Who has the right to be smug and conceited in his own powers or accomplishments or talents? |
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Nowadays, we have a logo, a presentation leaflet, visiting cards whose graphic realization was gracefully conceited by a graphic from Paris. |
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As a frequent visitor to London myself I'm always quite stunned by what I too see as a rather conceited and inward looking design community, talented as it may be. |
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The people's decisions are respected by all, I repeat by all, even by the most conceited minister or president. |
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I was pleasantly surprised: this Piemontese gentleman is no conceited fool, but truly passionate about his own art. |
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The genuine superstars, he says, tend to be the least conceited. |
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It has come to signify a group of intolerable, conceited, ruthless snobs. |
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It confuses conceited knowledge, the arrogant ambition of any science and human culture. |
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Maybe he's a conceited showoff and you'd rather not feel obligated to him after the dance. |
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There is no one as conceited, as lecturesome, as selfish, as mad about the theater as you. Nor is any man so talkative. |
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Neither Bevin nor the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry Sir Thomas Phillips liked working with Beveridge as both found him conceited. |
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Mr Logue emerges as a discontented, contradictory, fastidious character, a conceited pontificator on the one hand, but sensitive, self-aware and observant on the other. |
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It seems quite conceited for an organic milk producer to say that his milk is better than another's since there is still no distinctive test which can verify this. |
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This shows, once again, that the smaller countries generally accomplish a better presidency than the larger, more conceited countries, which, out of personal vanity, want to abolish rotating presidencies. |
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So, we are living in an aristocratic Europe, which does not want to concern itself with education, which has become somewhat conceited about being European. |
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Most humans are conceited and consider our race as superior to the others. |
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With the help of Kate de Vries, Hal Slater, the conceited pilot of Sagarmatha and the mysterious Nadira, Matt begins to search for Grunel's treasure. |
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He's conceited and opinionative and argues all the time, even when he knows perfectly well that he's talking through his hat. |
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Maybe it's his dazzlingly conceited grin, which is put to good use here in a screwball comedy that's put together like an action caper. |
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He thought that Bottom was conceited but good natured, and shows a considerable store of imagination in his interaction with the representatives of the fairy world. |
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