Sentences with phrase «on conceit»

Nabokov's writing shows a man wildly in love with the English language, and this book creates a literary world so elaborate that it holds up even after you're in on the conceit that powers the whole book.

She first came to attention with her debut exhibition Frank from Observation (2002) based on the conceit of Schutz as the last painter, representing the last subject «Frank».

To say much more would be venturing deep into spoiler territory, especially because Ghost Stories pivots on a conceit that's always more effective onstage than onscreen.

The Fleischers played on that conceit in their silent - era, pre-Boop cartoons, collectively titled «Out of the Inkwell,» through an innovative blend of live action and animation that made it appear that a flesh - and - blood cartoonist (usually played by Max) brought the characters to life by dipping his pen and sketching them on a drawing pad, at which point they would take on wills and identities of their own.

While some will focus on the conceit of Michael Fassbender wearing a papier - mâché head for much of the film, and some of the odder elements of the movie, you'll likely be too caught up in the deeply inventive, playful and idiosyncratic film to give it much thought.

For it to work, the movie relies on the conceit of blind acceptance to something that, beyond appearing ridiculous at face value, seems to have little to no effect to actually helping Walter's condition.

you feed and live on conceit and ignorance by refusing a moral authority.

Not exact matches

It's a charming conceit, and it fits well with the heroic image of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and so on.

And — as a side note — I suspect there can be a hint of professional conceit when it comes to touting the power of personas: too much can be built on «imaginary» prospects or customers that are simply words on paper.

What conceit and self righteousness to think for a moment that any of you are someone who is being looked after or has the ability to move on to an after life with this conjoured up image of some humanoid that will ascene you to some kind of «Happy Land» when you are more likely dead forever and dried up turning into bug invested happy meals or just plan old dust if your sealed or cremated..

If you are conceited enough to think that God shares your opinion on a verdict, you are very stupid.

His book, God's Politics, was on the bestseller list for weeks, successfully pandering to the conceit of many that their politics are «beyond left and right.»

The conceit hinges on the fact that one can not listen clearly to anyone else's view.

The film challenges the conceit of Wakanda as an affluent city on a hill, and when you see it surrounded by a world in preventable peril, it feels uncomfortable.

They may be inclined toward moral conceit in which they «rate themselves above others on whom they bestow earthly goods.

I happen to have met Bill Nye, in person, and in my opinion he's a conceited stuck up arrogant jacka $ $ who's managed to convince himself that because he had a «science» fair gig on a local comedy tv show in Seattle (Almost Live) that then got picked up by the Disney corporation that he now has qualifications that greatly exceed his actual faculties.

Everyone got groovin» in the streets, the parks, and the love - ins, and yet this late 60s crescendo of dance somehow nearly... killed it, with an ugly aftermath of «Iron Man» on one hand, «You've Got A Friend» on the other, and way too many people either too conceited or wasted to cha cha cha.

Turning the tables on the time - honored conceit that Americans are God's chosen people, Phelps and his followers insist that «God is America's enemy» because the United States has abandoned biblical principles for the evils of homosexual lust.

they also murder, hate, own slaves, fly planes into buildings, pressure cookers into backpacks, cheat, steal, commit adultery all the time, fornicate, drink and drug excessively, are narcissists, ego - driven show offs, selfish, conceited, jealous and disgusting - on a good day

Filmed last year on location in Eastern Europe, the show is purportedly «a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show» popular in Romania in the 1980s — a conceit the producers maintain by dubbing English dialogue over lines delivered by Romanian actors.

The thing that most college graduates pick up on is conceit and ego..

And where will one find a better stock villain than Haman, whose enormous conceit, malice, and cruelty are appropriately recompensed with death on the very gallows which he had especially constructed for the noble Mordecai.

Typical conceited Christian arrogance on the part of the news staff.

It is a metaphysical conceit, mirrored on every dying - resurecting god - man savior of every other religion that came before.

But this double «betrayal» stemmed from a single motivation: Weil objected so adamantly to the national idolatry endemic in European (and particularly French) Christianity» the conceit that «holy France» was God's chosen people» that she blamed Israel and its God for inflicting the idea of election on the world in the first place.

«33 Bushman also pointed out that Samuel Johnson, the great Episcopalian leader in Connecticut, lumped together Revivalism and democracy in their disrespect for proper authority: «The prevalency of rigid enthusiastical conceited notions and practices in religion and republican mobbish principles and practices and policy, being most on a level and each thinking himself an able divine and statesman: hence perpetual feuds and factions in both.34

Oswald Chambers wrote something that I always keep before me: â $ œBeware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to Godâ $ ¦ There was never a more inconsistent being on this earth than our Lord, but he was never inconsistent with his Fatherâ $ ¦ It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to him.â $

Jan 04,2016... It is man's conceit, no matter what dot he occupies on thecosmological time line, that his particula...

They carry their muscled torsos proudly — self - conceited, self - important, looking like roosters on a promenade.»

We don't want to get off on an overwrought parody of a witty comedian's trademark conceit, but during his debut as a sideline reporter, Dickerson self - immolated faster than a Buddhist monk on a Saigon street.

Maybe, the Ashanti regional minister needs to be reminded that Ghana is a nation governed by laws and not on whims of self conceited government appointees who take instructions from political simpletons; may he be reminded once again that, through this act of indiscretion, he is effectively opening the government up for huge legal liabilities that may culminate in the payment of huge government debt.

No tears for Holy Shehu, Glorious and Conceited, who immaculately talks down on everyone!

When Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers his national «progressive agenda to combat income inequality» on Tuesday in Washington, the conceit that he and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo are partners in an era of unprecedented city - state collaboration can officially be declared over.

The stakes are considerable — even a few fossil microbes on Mars would shatter our lingering conceit that Earth might be unique in the universe as a haven for life.

The whole paleo conceit is founded on the notion that we evolved to eat one way, but we now eat another way, and that is making us sick.

Stating it in the first sentence appeared conceited to most men who viewed her photo and most of them moved on.

in my own words i would describe myself as easy on the eyes... i would much rather hear wht up u think thn start sounding conceited!

The central conceit of the project, which gives it some intellectual heft and occasionally also makes it very funny, is the apparent dissonance between the characters and their worlds on the one hand and the extracts about art either voiced as dialogue or heard in voiceover, also by Blanchett (about five sources are used per school or type of art).

Treating cinema as a giant toy box, Korda resembles a child with an overactive imagination, giddily piling on every exotic and magical conceit the story can handle.

Even then, the fly - on - the - wall conceit adds up to little more than a guilty - pleasure for in - the - know filmgoers to have some subtext, however minimal, to hang their viewing experience on.

This conceit is the furious subtext for all the metal - on - metal action.

Nobody could do anything with this ridiculous conceit, but asking Mr. Keaton, one of our most volatile actors, to play Bruce Wayne / Batman is like asking him to put on an ape suit and play the title role in «King Kong.»

But that would get in the way of the story's conceit and antediluvian take on gender roles.

Needless to say that's a mouthful, and that's not including a number of other conceits, such as the existence of mild telekinesis, a practice of self - scarring, as well as a brutal form of retribution that's visited upon the loopers should they welch on the final clause of their contract.

A limp and nearly invisble female flip on the «Police Academy» conceit.

The central conceit (which is revealed early on)-- that Jacob Tremblay's Cody has dreams which become real while he sleeps — is one that isn't necessarily horror - centric.

It's rare that we get to see this most seemingly patrician of actresses delving into Britain's aspirational classes, and Scott Thomas's reading of Mimi's social airs is exquisitely poised between conceit and vulnerability, while still exercising her impeccable hauteur: «Your little friend is here,» she announces splendidly, when Paul McCartney shows up on her doorstep.

A slippery stylist, Soderbergh's films hop from genre to genre with creative restlessness appearing to be his defining characteristic whether filming glossy, expensive star laden confections such as the Oceans series or experimenting with digital video and unknown actors on low budget conceits such as Bubble or The Girlfriend Experience.

But it's the only real misstep, things picking up immediately as the bunker's third inhabitant, Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), is introduced and the central conceit is presented — is Howard telling the truth (as the evidence initially suggests), or is something more sinister going on?

However the conceited mastermind, more intent on making jokes than concessions, quickly dismisses these requests and fears.