conceit
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Listed like that, the conceit doesn’t sound very engaging, but the reality is far different.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Many people will be familiar with the conceit: The title character is born a man of 70, and as time moves forward, Benjamin’s physical age moves backward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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
I think it’s the height of conceit for us Wartians to decide that our planet is better than all the other 999,999,999,999.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
It’s one of the oldest conceits ever, thinking that vulgarity makes you look tough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
“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
Awarding the show three stars, the Telegraph's Claire Allfree said the "unstable, performative nature of identity, and its analogous resonance for theatre - the ultimate con trick - are familiar conceits".
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024
In 2019, she did do Lear on Broadway, in a reconceived production tricked out with an abundance of postmodern conceits that might have smothered a less assertive star.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
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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