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

But her conceit that the Inter-Con’s trajectory can constitute, as the book’s subtitle asserts, “a people’s history of Afghanistan,” is rickety at best.

From The Wall Street Journal

But some conceits stampede through profoundly repugnant swamplands, sinking into straight-up stereotyping in the process.

From Salon

One of the great conceits of California is its place on the cutting edge — of fashion, culture, technology, politics and other facets of the ways we live and thrive.

From Los Angeles Times