conceit
Example Sentences
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For all the arguments against his central conceit, Mr. Dalrymple has written a spirited and valuable book.
The conceit sounds simple today: Kids are given a small plastic key, for which they insert in a box near an installation and then are regaled with music and a short nursery rhyme or folktale.
From Los Angeles Times
Wouldn’t it be like this subtly sly author if the announcement turned out to be a narrative conceit—one last artful trick to cheat the end from arriving?
Mr. Oppenheim calls his movie “journalism,” but the term is correct only if he means a stringing-together of narrative conceits to meet the journalist’s emotional needs.
Perhaps that anxiety is why the hive mind conceit dominated these last 12 months, whether in our thoughts, on TV or at the movies.
From Salon
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