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Example sentences for: conceit

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The conceit of government by peaceable consensus was soon exposed as chimerical.
Some critics note the conceit's similarity to HBO's new series The Sopranos , which features a mobster on the couch as well.
But there's something deeply movie-ish about the whole conceit, as if the novelist and director were weaned on Martin Scorsese pictures and never stopped dreaming of recapturing that first masochistic rush.
Which, if Culturebox was illustrating a point, rather than manufacturing a conceit, was it: that these two extreme of contrarian critical opinion--Maslin's brittle cheerfulness and Siegel's apocalyptic dourness--have somehow brought their holders to the same lonely place.
A quasi-Borgesian conceit, but Saramago uses it to ask how people love when disaster upsets the social norms.