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Example sentences for: conceit

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Which brings us to the question raised by The Best American Recipes 1999 : Why, in a world besotted with mindless applications of the "best-of" conceit, did it take so long to come up with this one?
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.
I quite liked Being John Malkovich (inspired metaphysical conceit, unforgettable crazy dance by Malkovich, another go-for-broke performance by Cameron Diaz).
That is ironic, of course, but the joke is not on the New Republic . It's on the conceit of fact checking in general.
The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit.