Word: conceits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smaller the Mind the Greater the Conceit. an 1848 English version of Esop's Fables
...women may be flattering in the immediate sense, but ultimately it reveals an insensitivity which can move a discerning female to the point of exasperation or even rage. A modest individual may not perceive this shortcoming in himself, until perhaps he realizes that such presumptuousness springs not only from conceit, but from childishness as well: wanting something without pausing to consider that it may not want you back in the least...
...family's progress through the obstacle course of media celebration. Delilah is an overeager guest on The Dating Game, Bill poses in bed for Esquire, and Lance poses in the buff for Screw. It is like watching a Woody Allen parody of Andy Warhol's too familiar conceit that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes...
During his years of rising through the corporate ranks, Opel was often frustrated by IBM's centralized management. "No matter what I had in my jurisdiction, I typically felt I was more competent to deal with it than anyone else. And that wasn't conceit, it was just simple laws of nature," says Opel. That experience left him with a desire for decentralized decision making. He now tries to force corporate policymaking down and out, retaining at headquarters only what is necessary for overall planning and control. "You have to have people free to act, or they become...
Imagine that, buried in a forgotten carrel at the back of the British Museum, a hitherto unknown comedy by the 17th century playwright William Congreve had been discovered. Fancy further that his comedy was put not on the stage but on film, with every world-weary epigram and convoluted conceit intact. Such a notion must have occurred to the English experimental film maker Peter Greenaway. With The Draughtsman's Contract, which he wrote and directed two years ago, he has restored the Restoration sensibility. Here is a comedy-mystery laced with Triple Sec humor and stately, raunchy characters...