(idiom.) believe oneself infallible, be opinionated, consider oneself always right, think too much of oneself
(char./m.) ancestor; clan; (academic) sect, school; model, great master; measure word for matter, loan, etc. |...
(v.) take a panoramic view of the situation in context, to get full appreciation of, survey comprehensively
(phr.) (of an actor in opera performance) to go from one end of the stage to the other without stopping; (fig.) to do...