Public apathy combined with the conceit of the new ruling class, to deliver a particularly brutal humiliation to Rafsanjani, barred apparently not for his political views, but for the rather less dignified reason that the members of the Guardian Council thought Rafsanjani too old to be able to bear the burden of office.
With Apple, the conceit of perfection has market value.
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For a time, we all ignored the way 100 years of history told us it was supposed to happen, and bought the conceit that with hard work and modern training players could, and should, experience exponential gains as they hit 33, 36, even 39.
To the outsider's eye these complaints tend to display a high degree of pettiness and conceit, as with the applicant for a medical job with the commission who argued that his non-hiring was explicable only by a prejudice on the commission's part against Swedish medical qualifications.
And we must do nothing that provides our foes with ammunition with which they can accuse us of conceit, immaturity or impetuousness.
While Britain demonstrates that it prefers international legal conceit to both justice and its bilateral relations with Israel, senior Israeli jurists are making clear that they prefer to maintain their good reputations in places like London over defending the actual legal rights of their country.
Abe Sapien, who is played by Doug Jones with a delicate whiff of C-3PO whimsy, is a bright conceit that turns ever so slightly dull.
This conceit lead Desmond through a variety of eras in previous games, ending with the American Revolution in Assassin's Creed 3.
In particular, the conceit of linking his research to the ups and downs of his relationship with a tiresomely pro-communist (and humourless) girlfriend from East Germany is jarringly intrusive and self-referential.
By the time of the epilogue, when the 19th-century Alice has become a 21st-century young woman with an iPhone, the ballet's length has begun to weigh it down, but this dramatic conceit lifts the narrative.
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