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Example sentences for: conceit

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The movie's conceit is that sitcom conventions of that time--no color, no sex, no bathrooms--delimit the characters' reality.
That is ironic, of course, but the joke is not on the New Republic . It's on the conceit of fact checking in general.
That's the screenwriter's conceit.
Actually, Pitt isn't as terrible as usual: He's playing not a character but a conceit, and he can bask in his movie-idol arrogance, which seems to be the most authentic emotion he has.
A quasi-Borgesian conceit, but Saramago uses it to ask how people love when disaster upsets the social norms.