conceit
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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
Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
It’s one of the oldest conceits ever, thinking that vulgarity makes you look tough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
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 ● Nov. 29, 2025
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 ● Nov. 5, 2025
“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
The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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