the faithless indeed dwell in conceit and defiance .

the faithless indeed dwell in conceit and defiance .

Then did he stalk to his family in full conceit !

Then did he stalk to his family in full conceit !

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

This monstrous conceit of contemporary economics has brought the world to the edge of disaster.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

The rich man is wise in his own conceit but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

This is the recompense of your being happy upon falsehood in the earth , and the recompense of your conceit .

This is the recompense of your being happy upon falsehood in the earth , and the recompense of your conceit .

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem.

So, the nature of the building is that it looks at looking I mean that's its primary objective, both its program and its architectural conceit.

And when he is told , Be wary of Allah , conceit seizes him sinfully so let hell suffice him , and it is surely an evil resting place !

And when he is told , Be wary of Allah , conceit seizes him sinfully so let hell suffice him , and it is surely an evil resting place !

More immediately, we in the West should avoid the conceit that we were somehow the heroic behind the scenes progenitors of fundamental change in Tunisia and Egypt.

As for the infidels , ( it will be said ) Were not My messages read out to you ? But you behaved with self conceit , and became a sinful people .

As for the infidels , ( it will be said ) Were not My messages read out to you ? But you behaved with self conceit , and became a sinful people .

And walk not on the earth with conceit and arrogance . Verily , you can neither rend nor penetrate the earth , nor can you attain a stature like the mountains in height .

And walk not on the earth with conceit and arrogance . Verily , you can neither rend nor penetrate the earth , nor can you attain a stature like the mountains in height .

According to that story, early humans developed the conceit that, by using their language to work together, they could build a tower that would take them all the way to heaven.

The plan s central conceit is that government ingenuity can disentangle the trillion dollar sub prime mortgage loan market, even though Wall Street s own rocket scientists have utterly failed to do so.

Do not be like those who left their homes full of conceit and showing off to others . They debar others from the path of God but God has knowledge of all their actions .

Do not be like those who left their homes full of conceit and showing off to others . They debar others from the path of God but God has knowledge of all their actions .

Those who do not hope to meet Us say Why are no angels sent down to us , or why do we not see our Lord ? They are full of self conceit and behave with intense arrogance .

Such as fear not the meeting with Us ( for Judgment ) say Why are not the angels sent down to us , or ( why ) do we not see our Lord ? Indeed they have an arrogant conceit of themselves , and mighty is the insolence of their impiety !

As soon as you start seeing things from the plant's point of view or the animal's point of view, you realize that the real literary conceit is that is the idea that nature is opposed to culture, the idea that consciousness is everything and that's another very important thing it does.