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Example sentences for: conceit

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The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit.
A conceit this fragile needs to whiz along to keep our disbelief in suspension, but Meet Joe Black grinds on for three hours (longer than either Beloved or Saving Private Ryan ), and Pitt acts as if he has leased the screen by the year.
The conceit is that Benigni tries to keep the 5-year-old from realizing what's going on by pretending that the whole thing is a game and that if the boy gets through it without crying or complaining he wins a tank.
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).
(If you really want to see the so-called "death stare," click .) The conceit, of course, is that careful scrutiny of these images may reveal something important about JFK's assassination.