Thesaurus / conceit
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By the time she reaches her desperate endgame, however, he has taken us beyond the tropes of his faux-horror conceit and brought us squarely into the climax of a caper film.
LESBIAN LOVE STORY BECOMES THRILLER IN ‘TWO OF US’JOHN PAUL KINGFEBRUARY 4, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEWhile this conceit might feel forced in the hands of a lesser writer, Mendelsohn pulls it off surprisingly well.
EVERYTHING OUR EDITORS LOVED IN JANUARYTHE EDITORSFEBRUARY 4, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEEven if you believe that to be so, Cassie’s doggedness is an exhausting and not particularly deep conceit for a film.
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN STARTS WITH A CATHARTIC BLAST. THEN IT GETS BOGGED DOWN WITH CYNICISMSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKJANUARY 15, 2021TIMEIf we accept the conceit of Gray’s book and just look at how cats live, then maybe we can learn a thing or two.
EVERYTHING IS AWFUL. HERE’S A Q&A WITH A PHILOSOPHER ABOUT WHY CATS RULE.SEAN ILLINGJANUARY 15, 2021VOXAll of that could have been alleviated, perhaps, by a cast capable of finding truth within the conceits and translating them to the screen in a form that at least resonates with real human emotion.
QUEER HORROR FILM CHOKES ON SURREALIST PRETENSIONS IN ‘THE ONE YOU FEED’JOHN PAUL KINGJANUARY 15, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEThe fund will face pressure as investors will be watching closely to see if its core conceit — targeting diverse Midwest-based founders — will lead to outsize gains.
A POWER COUPLE WITH A $50M VENTURE FUND FOR THE OVERLOOKEDNICK FOURIEZOSAUGUST 14, 2020OZYHaving seen no service, he owed his appointment largely to his conceit and good looks.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONI am out of conceit with England just now; and would far rather have gone to the Antipodes.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODIt would argue too much literary conceit on my part were I anxious to restore it to the light of day.
MARGUERITEANATOLE FRANCEIt came to Lowell in a flash that Bill's arrogance sprang from something deeper than mere conceit or drunkenness.
MYSTERY RANCHARTHUR CHAPMANWORDS RELATED TO CONCEIT
- affectation
- amusement
- caprice
- chic
- conceit
- cry
- custom
- dernier cri
- eccentricity
- fancy
- fantasy
- fashion
- fool notion
- frivolity
- furor
- hobby
- humor
- in
- in thing
- innovation
- kick
- kink
- latest word
- mania
- mode
- new look
- newest wrinkle
- passing fancy
- passion
- quirk
- rage
- sport
- style
- thing
- trend
- vagary
- vogue
- whim
- whimsy
- wrinkle
- caprices
- conceits
- conceptions
- contrariness
- creations
- cup of teas
- desires
- druthers
- flashes
- fool's paradises
- grooves
- humors
- ideas
- images
- imaginations
- impressions
- inclinations
- irrationalities
- likings
- minds
- notions
- perverseness
- pleasures
- things
- thoughts
- vagaries
- velleities
- visualizations
- weakness fors
- whims
- wills
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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