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Example sentences for: conceit

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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.
By contrast, recycling the conceit of Swift's Modest Proposal (to eat children) would be embarrassment-free.
The conceit works better here than in Deconstructing Harry (1997), where the hero--a cross between Allen and Phillip Roth--screwed up his own and other people's lives but was let off the hook because he brought so much meaning into the world through his books.
The movie's Septimus never seems more than a literary conceit, and only in his fleeting moments of sanity does Graves acquire a mordant poignancy.
Some critics note the conceit's similarity to HBO's new series The Sopranos , which features a mobster on the couch as well.