His disciplines seemed empty now, denials mere conceits.

Since 1987, Stephen Rogers Radcliffe and his New York Chamber Ensemble have been presenting some of New York's friskiest programming - and performances, one hastens to add, since intention without follow-through equals mere conceit.

O sir, I shall be hated to report it: The Prince your son, with mere conceit and fear Of the Queen's speed, is gone.

Desire and thought without intensity, mere conceits, a plan before it is set in motion.

The whimsicalities to be found in all the books are, in fact, not random, not mere conceits, but make internal references.

Jones disagreed with the Darwinian theory of evolution, regarding it as a "mere conceit unsanctioned by science," and published a book in 1876 propounding this view.

The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear Of the queen's speed, is gone.

In each myth, water works as a natural habitat, not a mere conceit.

Indeed, it is no mere conceit to say that M.M.O.'s are just as much economies as games.

"America in the King Years," Branch's running title for the trilogy, is not a mere conceit, a fancy way of describing a biography.