Conceits

However, works as a stand-alone sequel, not relying on prior characters and continuing things via the themes and filmmaking conceits of the first film, like telling the story through a computer screen.

The first issue sets up the major conceits of the runs so far, setting up the lives of the myriad characters, before dropping the threat of Parasite in, as well as introducing Dr. Pharm and Graft, two new villains.

These conceits might have been evocatively absurd if they didn’t so often sacrifice nuance for teachable moments dripping in soapie-style sentiment.

As a writer of fantasy, VanderMeer has always eschewed the more derivative aspects of world-building, preferring instead to employ speculative conceits as a means of stretching the envelope of the possible.

One of the dreamier conceits of the early environmental movement was that the Earth was not merely one of the solar system’s many planets.

And the intellectual material of his fictions, the conceits and tossed-off observations on culture and human and alien behavior, reflect a probing mind.

Other sects betray still stronger partiality for astrological conceits.

Subsequent mannerists stressed intellectual conceits and artistic virtuosity, features that have led later critics to accuse them of working in an unnatural and affected "manner" (maniera).

The poetry depends on extended, sometimes elaborate metaphors and conceits, and the language is often rhetorical—written for actors to declaim rather than speak.