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Conceit meaning
Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. | The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension. | Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
Synonyms of Conceit
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Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence.
He said the show’s theme of political conceit allows him to capture 68 minutes of non-stop self-effacing hilarity into one ‘flimsy’ narrative framework.
His conceit was to make prosaic, cheap and unimportant things monumental and (ironically) prestigious.
However, that conceit doesn't take the sting out of seeing a fan favorite leave.
It is, however, a movie with a tricky conceit to pull off, one I am trying not to spoil for you.
It's the one-shot conceit movie that was done in the mid-'90s, and they hadn't really made one-shot movies yet.
Malcolm Fraser’s granddaughter got out her ouija board this week to tell us that her grandfather, had he still been alive, would have voted yes in the Voice to parliament referendum, the conceit became an instant meme in the chat channels.
On the downside, the brilliant conceit of the original books was a commentary on mid-2000s pop culture rolling on while the Iraq war was raging, and Collins hasn’t come up with a similarly clever or timely idea to underpin this story.
Puccini’s is a conceit employed in almost every Western film since.
The book is, in other words, a tale of drift in —but one you get coaxed into reading by the novelty of its conceit.
The conceit of the novel is there’s this 13-year-old girl … she observes something.
The plot twists keep on coming until the novel’s coda, where a final joyful conceit is revealed.
Despite the clunky conceit, Hatton covers vast ground from marriage to the zodiac.
Not every successful horror conceit merits is unendingly scary.
The movie plays peekaboo with its central conceit — is “the Evil” real, or is mom just off her rocker?
This conceit is naive.
And if the show’s conceit is somewhat insincere, the connections he forms are surprisingly genuine.
Even with the show's central time travel conceit, the character hasn't been seen since.
Reflecting the film’s literary roots (it’s adapted from a novel by one of the screenwriters, Domenico Starnone), this bifocal effect is an intriguing conceit that doesn’t fully blossom in a somewhat cramped 100-minute running time.
The conceit, an Airbnb Experiences class in making cocktails, requires Atkinson to get through a lot of stage business while telling her story, but since the cocktails are themselves a distraction tactic employed by her character, it all hangs together.