conceit

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He followed it with a succession of intensely theatrical divertissements, often revolving around unexpected intellectual conceits or bizarre juxtapositions and featuring brilliant dialogue, puns, repartee, double meanings and misunderstandings.

From BBC

The film’s conceit borrows several elements from Brooks’ classic, with a few key differences.

From Salon

The genius of Humphries’ conceit was to translate the small-minded, unyielding smugness of the middle-class Australian suburbs in which he grew up into the even more invincible complacency of outrageous, drop-dead stardom.

From New York Times

“Succession” returns to one of its most common storytelling conceits this week, as the Roys and their entourage gather in a spectacular location, to celebrate and to scheme.

From New York Times

As macabre as that sounds, the conceit channels actual anxieties in Japan about providing for a growing population of seniors.

From New York Times