conceit

What to know: The repetitive title of this thriller starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan speaks to the show’s conceit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Garry explains the evening’s conceit shortly after waddling from his chair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

That conceit ended up an unsubtle but no less effective metaphor for our new Gilded Age.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

The conceit of the movie, that you took 12 years to make it, became largely what the movie was about: time and growth and what happens to people as they get older.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Alice gestured with her tiny hands, and what Olanna had once thought to be an elegant fragility suddenly became a self-absorbed conceit, a luxurious selfishness; Alice spoke as if she alone suffered from the war.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It’s one of the oldest conceits ever, thinking that vulgarity makes you look tough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

“Gladiator II” and “Alien: Romulus” are Ridley Scott properties that heavily retread ground covered in the original conceits that inspired them.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024

Awarding the show three stars, the Telegraph's Claire Allfree said the "unstable, performative nature of identity, and its analogous resonance for theatre - the ultimate con trick - are familiar conceits".

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024

But some of the conceits behind that were very interesting, like the British aristocracy being criminal in the essence of controlling land and being able to pass that down for generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald