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Example sentences for: conceit

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By contrast, recycling the conceit of Swift's Modest Proposal (to eat children) would be embarrassment-free.
That is ironic, of course, but the joke is not on the New Republic . It's on the conceit of fact checking in general.
I quite liked Being John Malkovich (inspired metaphysical conceit, unforgettable crazy dance by Malkovich, another go-for-broke performance by Cameron Diaz).
The movie's conceit is that sitcom conventions of that time--no color, no sex, no bathrooms--delimit the characters' reality.
The film is credited with a clever conceit (it weaves together two versions of a British PR agent's life) but is said to suffer from simplistic characters, windy dialogue, and a facile moral message (life is predestined).