And Knausgaard's abandonment of literary conceit is itself a literary conceit, albeit one of a higher order.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — Sometimes, curatorial conceit need be nothing more than a conceit, a frame that occasions the presentation of stellar art.
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The science fiction conceit or the super natural conceit is the Trojan Horse where you can actually talk about all of these questions about society and identity.
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Imagine if Queer Eye took their progressive conceit even further.
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The conceit worked, scoring Crawford $72,000 to put toward development.
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But Keynes at best only half believed his dentist conceit.
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This is the central conceit of Orwell: Ignorance is Strength.
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The conceit of the show tests science against free will.
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The Last Man on Earth begins with a similar conceit.
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Daddy would probably not find this conceit of great interest.
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If such a conceit sounds heady, that's because it is.
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These connected glasses would change the world was the conceit.
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It's also irrelevant, a conceit of fantasy writers working metaphorically.
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The conceit came to life once Levit began to play.
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Leavy's conceit allows her to stake out some untrod turf.
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Of course, it is a conceit of many presidents — conceit being all but a constitutional qualification of the office — that they are saviors who, by force of personality, will transform all that preceded them.
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There is a pervasive and uneasy feeling of conceit and flattery.
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If we could find a new conceit, that would be ideal.
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Siblings with radically divergent personalities isn't exactly a new storytelling conceit.
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It's a tricksy conceit, but one that frames eerie, visionary passages.
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The conceit is fun enough — every episode is a bottle episode!
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Is gentefication really just gentrification dressed up in culturally fitting conceit?
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The conceit of Humans Not Invited is essentially a reverse CAPTCHA.
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THE conceit of a new film, "Airplane Mode", is clever enough.
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Mitchell's latest contribution to White Light, "Zauberland," has a heady conceit.
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Blunt's 2013 album The Redeemer is built on the same conceit.
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We were also surprised to accept the whole conceit so readily.
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The central conceit of season one was its double-layered narrative.
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Woodward's reporting exposes, perhaps inadvertently, what a hollow conceit this is.
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How'd you come up with the conceit behind the Salvia videos?
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One caveat of a tiered-pricing conceit that rewards earlier birds?
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Unreliability is a fascinating and tricky conceit for novelists and filmmakers.
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It feels like a staged conceit, not an exploration of character.
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Freedom is a conceit well suited to a collection of essays.
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But with its epistolary conceit — like The Bridges of Madison County!
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The conceit of the vacuous nonfiction movie "Casting JonBenet" is simple.
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The present-day Republican Party makes a mockery of this conceit.
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I nodded along with the beat, giggled at each new conceit.
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The monarchical conceit wears thin—but the wider observations are acute.
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But this structuring conceit is also useful for simplifying an unwieldy topic.
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But was met with conceit From an entrenched group of clubby blowhards.
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That crime is the novel's link to the conceit of the gratuitous.
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The conceit was that Westworld's hosts had somehow taken over both networks.
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The one-dimensional conceit of an evil woman isn't new, of course.
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This is a key conceit of the industry, that fans feel unheard.
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But that conceit did wonders to set the title's ultra-serious tone.
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Many gladiators adopted pseudonyms, perhaps anticipating the 20th century professional wrestling conceit.
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There are times when the conceit is stretched to the tearing point.
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The film, having launched a sprightly comic conceit, lets it glide away.
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As iconic as it is, the lamp's mechanical conceit is played out.
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This creates a kind of flatline with regard to the central conceit.
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But it's another tape that really shows the power of the conceit.
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Initially, the film's conceit appears to rest on not acknowledging the difference.
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This is no time to stand on the conceit of false pride.
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How does Mr. Manzoor's story relate to the "looks like me" conceit?
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Which is what makes his whole "fake news" conceit so laughable. 229.
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Our reviewer, Steve Earle, praised Barry's ambitious prose and the novel's conceit.
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That's the conceit of the franchise, and people love that about it.
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And that seems to be the conceit of the new Flash Forward podcast.
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The idea is based on this absurdist conceit of a library for birds.
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The City Council's conceit might be cured by a healthy dose of modesty.
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It's an audacious conceit for an art show, and ultimately, a rewarding one.
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In a sense, that makes audiences an active participant in the whole conceit.
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Maybe the funniest thing about Picross, though, is its semblance of a conceit.
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The flagrant kitsch of the work also sits uneasily with the show's conceit.
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It's a conceit that succeeds because Alt-Frequencies' characters are rich in color.
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The game's premise also paves the way for its most unique gameplay conceit.
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OpenMind's conceit gave me the opportunity to do that while also playing myself.
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Message delivery is the myth and conceit behind the curiously eclectic modern pentathlon.
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And just like that, Tony Stark breaks the entire conceit of the movie.
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The conceit is so simple: sliced dill pickles and pepperoni as pizza toppings.
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Its premise is a familiar country conceit: music about the power of music.
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On paper, it sounds like the conceit of an undergrad film class exercise.
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Still, it wasn't a guarantee that Journey Live's conceit would be successfully executed.
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An exhibition focused on Frida Kahlo's self-stylings feels thornier as a conceit.
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The central conceit of the novel is as simple as it is bold.
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But the conceit falls apart when you replace mental illness with something physical.
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It's a timeless conceit of romance fiction, and kind of a tired cliche.
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And the conceit is you do it remotely, that's the whole idea, right?
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Bauhaus Ideals and Design, gives away its conceit, suggesting that it's time we
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Add to that, the conceit that we merge business and personal lives completely.
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Normally, this kind of precious conceit would annoy me, but you know what?
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Such a conceit assumes that there is something inherently deadly about Death Valley.
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His Wakefield is a creature of words, less a man than a conceit.
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The rhetorical conceit of James's book is a debate between him and Sartre.
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The show, just 80 minutes long, has a simple conceit — They're Tudor queens!
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That's the conceit the proponents of "dopamine fasting" are running with, at least.
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The film's conceit is that the wall was built to keep out monsters.
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It's an intriguing, romantic bit of poetry, more literary conceit than literal fact.
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Like Icarus, his conceit has seen him soar too close to the sun.
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What starts out as a quirky conceit rapidly devolves into an annoying tic.
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It's a smart design conceit to an environment that strives to be immersive.
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They were celebrating Trump in all his arrogance, and smug conceit, and ugliness.
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The pairing of these two artists is an interesting conceit for a show.
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That's why Shor and Civis conducted the poll, pitching the idea to respondents with the conceit that Democrats had embraced codetermination as a campaign proposal, with Republicans opposed (this conceit might affect the results, though I still think they're informative regardless).
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They remain a ridiculous conceit, a dressing-up club exposed as a thuggish shambles.
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It is what instantly takes the whole conceit from futuristically cool to presently niche.
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The filmmakers are too busy expanding the Die Hard conceit so that it encompasses
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The whole conceit of the first series is that we couldn't kill a human.
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That conceit might be obnoxious if each new set wasn't so gorgeous and weird.
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But he has unified his beliefs into the "dignity of work" conceit more recently.
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In these moments, the conceit of these two women's real ages becomes jarringly funny.
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The conceit that is often put is that it ties the hands of governments.
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But "Hardcore Henry" may be the most ambitious full-length use of this conceit.
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It's a structural conceit that helps the show handily address its insane population problem.
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Its conceit nicely fills up its 96 minutes; 97 would have been too long.
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The conceit of "Dancing With the Tiger" is as ambitious as it is dangerous.
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That simple conceit required that an entire false reality be built to support it.
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As a character, Lolo is a conceit of indulgent parenting and never fully blooms.
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At least, that's the conceit of a new video by indie film essayist Kaptainkristian.
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The eccentric personalities of the narrator's female companions flesh out the book's central conceit.
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Imagine the carping, caviling nastiness of it, the solipsistic conceit of such a deed.
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Through a fictional conceit, Dialect sheds light on a real-world problem: language death.
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Miles's commitment to this conceit is admirable, but his ultimate intentions are somewhat unclear.
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It's a familiar conceit: Place a group of actors inside a box and go!
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Vargas Llosa squeezes a fair amount of juice, and pulp, out of this conceit.
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Is it wrong to reveal a movie's conceit, rather than elements of its story?
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In spirit, it's a feminist renunciation of the very conceit of women as angels.
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Imagine what wicked sport the Smith of yore would have had with this conceit.
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One thing that made it safe to laugh was the ridiculousness of the conceit.
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The seemingly simple conceit yields a rich, complex panorama that goes well beyond stereotypes.
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"Chez Charlotte and Emily" (1980) uses a sort of novel-inside-a-novel conceit.
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It's a lovely literary conceit in its own right and works without that drama.
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"From the disease of conceit/Give ya delusions of grandeur/And a evil eye..." — Bob Dylan, "Disease of Conceit"(463) Search the phrase "evil eye jewelry" on Etsy, the e-commerce website for handmade and vintage items, and more than 246,257 items appear.
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The conceit of the show relies on the displacement and bracketing of America's racial past.
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Beyond the general "space" conceit, NASA and Star Wars don't have a ton of similarities.
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And it was built into the conceit that we live in his head as well.
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The conceit of the celebrity profile is that celebrities are, by nature, special and removed.
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The sculptures' conceit and materials are straightforward but their visual effects are complex and surprising.
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A particularly flat conceit is the most iconic "new god," the irritatingly adolescent Technical Boy.
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Clearly, the conceit of The Handmaid's Tale bears a striking similarity to this Genesis story.
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It is worth noting at this juncture that the GOP conceit is almost completely backward.
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The initial conceit was "a superthief that is forced to become a superhero," he said.
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There is a conceit to Puk Grasten's drama "37" that must be addressed up front.
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I thought that was a very clever conceit for narrative and mixing genre and tone.
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The bit was called "Permission," and while the conceit was pretty straightforward, it worked brilliantly.
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It is Sherrill's conceit that few people notice M's bull-furred face and head-rack.
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Mr. Katz considers the Lithuanian commission one of the founders of the double genocide conceit.
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Even if its curatorial conceit is a mess here, at least it's a hot mess.
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As a work, Everything's primary conceit is that it allows its players to be anything.
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Mr. Lee is not concerned that audiences may find the conceit too over the top.
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Yet the conceit of "O Peixe" is that this fishing technique is a pure invention.
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This approach suffers from a flawed conceit: that regulators, not entrepreneurs and consumers, know best.
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This is a conceit that's obviously been explored multiple times, just usually not very well.
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An outlandish, pointedly allegorical conceit is inhabited not by symbolic figures but by terrestrial oddballs.
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"We also had an extraordinary conceit," Mr. Raskin told The New York Times in 21962.
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The conceit of a direct listing is that it's more democratic, very logical, very internet.
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The conceit is all in the title: What does it mean to be black today?
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But this is the literary conceit of philosophy — one that is still in circulation today.
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Each film sticks to a single conceit, finding every variation it can on its theme.
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You have Detective Comics back in 1937, and the conceit is that everyone is a detective.
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The movie is in on the joke, and it encourages playful skepticism of the whole conceit.
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There are a few excellent ideas in Future '38, including the main conceit I mentioned above.
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The conceit of the first-person shooter genre sounds, particularly when you say it aloud, crass.
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None are tethered to the core conceit in a way that resonates from beginning to end.
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I was impressed with the rigor of the conceit and this sci-fi reflection on porn.
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The conceit—a mini-expo of Donald Trump's public persona before he became president—is cute.
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That said, the whole conceit of the PixelQuest Arcade Kit seems a little cynical to me.
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The narrative conceit perfectly evokes the films, but the gaming element is where things get intriguing.
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Where the conceit is really strong, then trying to illustrate it is kind of almost meaningless.
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This smallness leans into the "wagon train to the stars" conceit of the space opera genre.
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Disillusioned with the hubris, First World conceit and short-sighted compassion of liberals and the Left?
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Secondly, neoliberalism abandons the liberal conceit of a separation between political and economic realms of life.
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It's this spirituality and awareness of his own flaws that's the unifying conceit of untitled unmastered.
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Nearly everything you do, and how you do it, retains the conceit of the Old West.
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This is seen as just, supported by the conceit that black citizens brought this upon themselves.
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The conceit is that you're a cadet at the academy's Career Day in the 26th century.
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At his best, he can push an outrageous conceit right up to its limits (and yours).
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This is one of those Black Mirror episodes where we don't know wtf the conceit is.
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Depreciation is a noncash charge, and is largely an accounting conceit that benefits real estate investors.
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The hotel wallpaper conceit came to Mesler as a flash of sense memory, a poisoned madeleine.
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You shall never indulge in the conceit of imagining that you are better than we are.
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But neither conceit pays off, perhaps because seeing either through would mean keeping the zombies sidelined.
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He had campaigned as an outsider, and for once that was not a lifelong politician's conceit.
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The power of the conceit, of course, comes from the fact that this is happening anyway.
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The conceit was that A.I. Mario got better and better the longer the broadcast went on.
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Many horror films are built around the conceit of naïve, ordinary people caught in unimaginable circumstances.
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" Mr. Hodgson's original (and ridiculous) conceit is still intact on "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return.
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Word of the Day : outspoken conceit _________ The word vainglory has appeared in six articles on NYTimes.
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Then, there's the underlying conceit: mammals, we learn, are no longer split into predators and prey.
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The most memorable Borderlands villain, a loathsome sociopath known as Handsome Jack, embodied this conceit perfectly.
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" More recently, BMW built similar marketing campaigns around the conceit that its cars were "Sweet Chariots.
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The conceit of that product was also to provide quality video series for a mobile audience.
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You don't see this at first, because Mr. Payne is so charmed by the conceit itself.
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The sketch's conceit is a demonstration of all the capabilities of a hypothetical Yuja Wang clone.
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The conceit of object as body is evocative, but it's also a kind of a truism.
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But that is the conceit, the fiction in this, that I think is unique to television.
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That's cute, and all, but creator Domee Shi uses this conceit to explore larger themes of identity.
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It's a towering villain conceit, but in a way, it's one superhero comics have embraced for decades.
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The faux-recovered film is a great cinematic conceit, and retro-futurism is a perpetually compelling aesthetic.
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The whole idea that disruption is something positive instead of negative is a conceit of tech entrepreneurs.
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Weekly, a semi-popular podcast based on the conceit that people are either Thems— I know them!
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Crichton, of course, recycled this conceit for the more famous Jurassic Park, which is another obvious influence.
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Full of empty platitudes and preachy generalizations, it was remarkable primarily for the enormity of Obama's conceit.
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Many people still envision virtual reality as a goofy '80s and '90s (or earlier) science fiction conceit.
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Its conceit claims that characters die if the player makes bad choices, or times button-presses poorly.
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To be fair, the gaffe is almost entirely a media conceit, and one even reporters find problematic.
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Its design is arrogant in its conceit that there's only one right way to store your gear.
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Some shows I give a chance just because their basic conceit is so utterly up my alley.
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The downward pull of gravity, which was sometimes present in earlier work, has disappeared; a conceit discarded.
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And while building the play around various games is a fine conceit, it sometimes seems too pat.
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The four day deadline isn't just a narrative conceit, it also dominates the structure of the game.
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This smoke is the conceit of Vyleta's novel, the single radical difference between its reality and ours.
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Liberals already suffer from the conceit that they are more intelligent, and it can make them insufferable.
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Weekly, a semi-popular podcast based on the conceit that people are either Them— I know them!
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It is the artist's modern version of Swift's modest proposal with a conceit that is equally damning.
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Or does the deterministic conceit ultimately result in exactly the languor he's been exploiting for 200 pages?
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Derivative or not, it's a great conceit, because on some level, isn't that just the human condition?
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The album's central conceit allows for this sort of simplified, bare bones, on the road writing style.
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Comey's action was, at best, a colossal error in judgment, arising out of a conceit of power.
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It, too, is rich in its details, though the conceit here is classical antiquity rather than exoticism.
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It is a conceit of the sovereign power to think that it can have only legal immigration.
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The personable (or, sometimes, rude) vending machines that dot the Ark are a fun and clever conceit.
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And exciting gadgets threaten the sport's fundamental sad conceit by actually telling you if anything's down there.
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But that would get in the way of the story's conceit and antediluvian take on gender roles.
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These poems were lovingly chosen — treasures — and I soften toward the book's conceit when I consider that.
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We use a very theatrical conceit; when the moment happens, it's an actual giant shattering of glass.
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The conceit: Performers wear only a thong and body paint (up to six hours in the application).
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"I mean, we've watched them all," Stevens said, somehow delivering this information without a trace of conceit.
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Mr. Ali's conceit is that Viola and Sebastian are Cuban refugees, but that doesn't come across onstage.
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It's a joyous slam dunk of a conceit—a pointedly absurdist sendup of misogynist visual clichés. ♦
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They're a conceit that we have because they are embedded naturally in the setup of our characters.
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" The conceit for this collection was for each contributing writer to compose a story featuring a "warrior.
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Instead, they became closer to libraries in their conceit—offering services, rather than networks, to the community.
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And unfortunately for Andromeda, the core conceit of its setting is facile and pernicious—and worse, boring.
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Rampage was a fun arcade and video game with a simple conceit (SMASH THINGS) and not much more.
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That's the conceit of The Underground Railroad, an electrifying novel just announced as Oprah's newest Book Club pick.
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A VR story — fictional or otherwise — would be a more vivid, fine-grained version of the same conceit.
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Nor is it the first to use the conceit of casting the role of a famous murder victim.
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The clever conceit of "Who is America?" is to subvert the standard approach to reporting in the country.
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This would further substantiate the Gaia hypothesis' conceit of our planet as a living superorganism capable of reproduction.
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The conceit of the Trump campaign is that he's a smart, business-savvy outsider who can fix things.
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Both "Get Out" and "Us" begin with a classic science-fiction conceit reminiscent of Rod Serling's original series.
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Probably. But the film's conceit is still strong enough to support how far A Ghost Story takes it.
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Every story, every book, has both its conceit, and it has the heart of the character beneath it.
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It is also a pretty ridiculous plot conceit, which goes for most of Ritual of the Night's storytelling.
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I had a conceit for it: to write about absence as if it were a kind of presence.
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It was our way to make a conceit to balance while maintaining the freedom of the original concept.
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Do not fall for the conceit that Donald Hemingway's real audience is all of us citizens and voters.
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The main characters are all killed and eaten; the movie's conceit is that only their found footage survives.
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The book on the top was "The Light Between Oceans," and I thought it was a cinematic conceit.
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The movie's prize conceit is that the killer is a poet manqué, obsessed with the work of Baudelaire.
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Let's focus on the clarity of his darkness, his illusory deceptions, his insatiable avarice and his colossal conceit.
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The conceit is that she provides the heart and courage for them to keep going and take risks.
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This is the conceit of Patient Seventeen, a new documentary released last month by Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell.
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Lest you think this some odd artistic conceit, the history of the region bears directly on the project.
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But, as realized here, the promising conceit of the "critical zone" lacks the individual images' precision and bite.
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It's a collection of bottles meant to satisfy the title's conceit and results in a frustrating reading experience.
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I was going to ask — you record all your stuff on the phone, that's the conceit of it.
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What makes Trump confusing is that the conceit of his television show was that he's a talented businessman.
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And the manufacturing conceit is so subtle that children are unlikely to walk away with a candy jones.
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But that coverage sidesteps discussion of the exhibition's aesthetics, which don't live up to the work's promising conceit.
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And maybe the whole sci-fi conceit isn't real, it's just a result of Alma's mental illness. Oh!
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The conceit isn't necessarily about overlooking one's flaws or behavior, as Chaucer and Shakespeare intended with the phrase.
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The conceit of I Lost My Body is simple, if at first hard to wrap your mind around.
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This taped PBS special-looking sketch begins with the conceit of a tired, old A Christmas Carol adaptation.
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"These shows return with casts largely intact, and conceit and ideology trapped in amber, too," our critic writes.
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The central conceit of "Will," that players and playwrights were the superstars of their day, isn't quite true.
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The libretto, by Caterino Mazzolà, is an adventurous variation on the standard conceit of a topsy-turvy world.
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Gordon, backed by the production companies involved, wanted to focus on the darker elements of the show's conceit.
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Half a century later, "Measurement Room: No Vantage Point" is a spiritual homecoming for a deeply layered conceit.
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It's the same general conceit as getting the inside scoop from other employees before accepting a job offer.
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The Lobster feels safest — it's the sort of weirdo conceit the writers branch of the Academy often loves.
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Like much of his work on view, a humorously absurd conceit is layered beneath a bone-dry shell.
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Carne y Arena's physical bookends aren't bells and whistles; they're part of the core conceit of the piece itself.
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It's a pretty cool conceit — that we'll get to see what this same idea looks like three decades later.
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With this simple conceit, "Go for Broke" presents a mix of everyday struggles underscored by the threat of violence.
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They're full of death, of course, but only as a conceit, a shallow reading of a much deeper concept.
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All photos by Layla Fassa The very conceit of durational art performances always seem a little suspect to me.
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Even without this conceit, the color and surface are seductive, and the inscribed shapes suggest something primal and strange.
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Mileage may vary on how well executed Superhot VR is, but its core conceit isn't possible in other medium.
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Consider its central conceit, which is that the whole entire world will experience a massive "weather event" at once.
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He believes he's above ever needing to explain himself, a conceit that should bother Americans across the political spectrum.
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Stranger ThingsSNL's show parodies can be pretty hit or miss, but the conceit behind this one was pretty fun.
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The core conceit is simple, particularly if you've ever played Hotline Miami or any of the titles it inspired.
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But I still wanted more of the political intrigue and backstabbing that's always been core to the show's conceit.
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That was the original conceit, but these days China talks about BRI as if it were a global project.
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The central conceit of a (trans)gender reveal party is that it's based on personal choice, not cultural predetermination.
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But Dimension 404 makes up for that somewhat with the sheer number of ideas it throws at the conceit.
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" Elizabeth shares the conceit of her work as "an exploration into our convenient yet complicated and pernicious food system.
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Screenwriter Olivia Milch's take for Ocean's 8 offers the chance to view the entire conceit in a different context.
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The conceit is that anyone can join, raise money or propose new investments, and then everyone gets to vote.
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After all, the basic conceit of Trump's campaign was that the people running the government were dumb and bad.
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Tawada just makes this conceit more literal, by casting her bears as actual artists in one way or another.
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Racked's Julia Rubin found the looks on display at the preview visually stunning, but the exhibition's conceit seemed forced.
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Again the central conceit appears to reflect the question of writing itself, and how it can affect the world.
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All of which served the scholarly conceit that government could proficiently manage the economy by manipulating the money supply.
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But the conceit of Auschwitz as a demented fairy tale in which wishes are never answered rings astonishingly true.
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And in the song's main conceit — an amorous escape from the workweek grind — there's something comfortingly routine, almost lulling.
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That's part of the book's conceit: Nobody believes Rachel because she's a mess, and so probably we won't, either.
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Essentially "Real World" with an Italian-American conceit, "Jersey Shore" was a breakout hit when it premiered in 1463.
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The cleverness of Downhill's conceit is how very ordinary the catastrophe is that shakes this couple to the core.
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There's no denying the entire conceit of BB — a ghost-detecting baby that lives in a jar — is strange.
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The book's principal weakness may be its overarching conceit that we have all somehow become four-dimensional human beings.
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He led the conversation with a sharp intelligence, laughing at jokes, struggling to give an absurd conceit logical consistency.
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I don't just mean his eponymous show; I mean that's the central conceit of the character that is Steven.
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The video has a rueful, Solomonic conceit: the way that many objects, divided precisely in half, become useless. J.P.
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The conceit was this: You'd be paired with a conversational partner at random for a video chat via webcam.
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"It's hard to find a fresh take on the time-travel conceit," Neil Genzlinger wrote of the first season.
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But Brooker's technological plot conceit falls apart the moment you think about it for more than a few seconds.
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Once again, the works' production value compensates for a conceit that is at best pedestrian and at worst pernicious.
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But Future '38 doesn't develop its film-within-a-film conceit enough to do this, so the humor falls flat.
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Some even had memories that played out like a movie reel, which I had once believed was a Hollywood conceit.
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One recurring story conceit, involving a smirking corpse guiding Nick around London, is borrowed from An American Werewolf In London.
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The commercial opens with the clever conceit of Alexa losing her voice, as a pretext for ushering in celebrity substitutes.
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Davis's Duplex has a similar conceit: a suburban America that transforms into a dreamscape of witches, robots, murder, and monsters.
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In "Get Out", the conceit was: what if you were able to transfer someone's consciousness from one body to another?
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Your camera flies and stuff looks pretty from the sky and the whole conceit is pretty trite at this point.
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Like "Groundhog Day" or "Bruce Almighty", "Yesterday" gets most of its humour from the supernatural conceit, rather than its characters.
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Much will likely be made of the timely central conceit, which involves the government using technology for mass-surveillance purposes.
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And with it all comes the conceit of fall fragrances — warm, sweet scents to coddle you through the cooling temps.
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The conceit of both Perchang and Lemmings is that there's a steady stream of something flowing into the puzzle space.
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Although "Originals" matches "Give and Take" in scholarly foundation, practical applicability and general delightfulness, its overarching conceit is less convincing.
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The biggest conceit in the first issues of Ms. Marvel was that Danvers had no idea she was Ms. Marvel.
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With little fanfare—even less spilling of its secret central conceit—Amazon released its new comedy, Forever, earlier this month.
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To some very loaded topics around domestic violence and abuse, it brings an ill-conceived and poorly delivered central conceit.
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In some paintings, Wegman goes maximalist with the postcard conceit, creating MC Escher–like plays on our perception of space.
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"Around that time, I had been thinking about the central conceit that would become The Dispatcher," Scalzi tells The Verge.
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TIME explained its choices HERE, and NBC News and many other outlets gave the "guardians" conceit prominent coverage on Tuesday.
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The track was named after a Japanese manga and anime series, whose conceit involves a notebook with lethal magical powers.
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For such a conceit to work, we have to believe in the merit of the thing that is in dispute.
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In theory, the show's conceit, as well as its wondrous music, should tear our sentimental and weathered old hearts out.
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Each animal, from a ram, to a lion, to a T-Rex, brings more joy from Geometric Beasts' simple conceit.
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The conceit of "The Good Doctor" is that the condition that limits Shaun's human interactions is inseparable from his gift.
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When Ben Collins approached me with the movie's general conceit six years ago, he had [seen] it in a dream.
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Katherine Wolkoff's The Critical Zone, at Benrubi Gallery, also suffers from a vague conceit, though the individual works are refined.
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The conceit of this work has a catch-all diffuseness that manifests in the series' disorienting scalar and perspectival shifts.
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The conceit of some on the left is that all this can be done just by taxing the rich more.
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One unfortunate byproduct of the way the conceit is handled here is that Hall vanishes for most of the movie.
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He's dreaming of a "Black Radio 3" with a slightly new conceit: featured producers, not vocalists, recorded without the Experiment.
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In another Chow-esque conceit, Kai's powers make him transform into an old bald guy when he does martial arts.
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Innumerable magic keys hiding in a giant evil house is a conceit that could drive a whole lot of plot.
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The basic conceit of "Togo" is by itself amusing -- namely, that the story everyone thinks they know is actually wrong.
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The central conceit, as noted, isn't especially new, including a recently launched Netflix series ("Soundtrack") that employs a similar device.
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Biden told me he did not buy the conceit that the Democratic Party shifted irreversibly to the left after 22016.
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According to this alternative ideal, the division between civil government and the military is a pacifist's conceit that needs overcoming.
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The conceit was essentially a confessional, single-camera mockumentary: MTV's Real World meets Lost Boys by way of Spinal Tap.
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In a way, so does Mr. Talbott's deluxe staging, by enhancing the play's conceit at the expense of its characters.
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As the film wears on, they get further and further from the ideas that make the whole conceit unique and exciting.
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That new ground automatically rejuvenates the conceit of a show that, in my eyes at least, had long overstayed its welcome.
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Forza Horizon 4 is especially poignant because, of course, the entire conceit of the game is that it's a car festival.
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Its conceit doesn't leave much room for nuance, with characters who are thinly developed and played with varying levels of melodrama.
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Professional insider journalists sometimes mock the explainer conceit, as though it is arrogance or pretense, but they are missing the point.
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The conceit is one game director Josef Fares has used before, in Starbreeze's well-received Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons.
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Groundhog Day is a rare film, managing to balance the weight of its central conceit with actual character development and laughs.
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This concept doesn't issue from Mulvey herself, but is rather the intellectually lax conceit taken up by the Cheim & Read show.
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Sort it out Glastonbury, the people are counting on you to bring us the quality late-career conceit acts we deserve.
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Often, the adults he encountered embodied various character traits like greed and conceit — or, in the aviator's case, imagination and creativity.
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But because the book has this paranormal conceit to it, suddenly it's more palatable to a wider audience, which I love.
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So it's frustrating that this elegant conceit is shot so roughly that it's at times difficult to focus on what's happening.
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The conceit of this piece is that "Palmer Luckey was fired for being a conservative," and that seems kind of nuts.
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In Romesberg's formulation, new organisms are new stories, a conceit made possible by the root metaphor that DNA is a language.
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With that conceit in place, the game's shootouts become carefully choreographed action scenes where you plan out each move with care.
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Fleabag is based on a pretty typical comedy conceit, one that's been exhausted on shows like Modern Family and The Office.
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It stumbles into some of the pitfalls of this kind of conceit, in particular it tends to equate species with race.
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Brie Larson has some next-level pattern pairing that'll make you fall in love with the dressing conceit all over again.
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That's the conceit of the trailer for Netflix's upcoming film Holiday Rush, which could be poised to be another Christmas classic.
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Adiós Utopia memorializes the driving utopian conceit of contemporary Cuban art, its galleries a testament to the credulity of this dream.
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The conceit should allow Hader—who was a man of many faces on "Saturday Night Live"—to showcase his chameleonic gifts.
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Each episode is inspired by one of the Ten Commandments, a conceit that the series observes with varying degrees of literalism.
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The novel's conceit reflects this impact, jumping back and forth in time to recount family life with Gretchen, and without her.
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The result is a follow-the-bouncing-ball effect, and Mr. Williams helps the conceit along with flourishes of lively staging.
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Usually, it's an illness that prevents the lovers from being together, or even touching, a conceit fraught with various metaphorical aspects.
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But so great are our greed, anger, perversity and conceit that we are filled with all forms of malice and cunning.
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Exactly, the conceit of the show is that we call each other, and it's our catch-up phone call, in essence.
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So strong is the conceit behind "The Lobster" that only gradually do you realize how much plot is being packed in.
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The possibility of dying at any moment isn't so much a conceit of the show as it is a sobering reality.
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As a physical entity, the Islamic State's conceit was probably never sustainable, at least at the pace and scope it attempted.
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This conceit, impressionistic rather than schematic, would allow her to organize a variety of moods into a tense but cohesive whole.
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The conceit of the show is that cast and audience alike have gathered for a meeting of the Drunk Shakespeare Society.
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From there, a structure gradually took shape that almost resembles a planetary system, with characters orbiting the central conceit like moons.
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On Golf NAUCALPAN DE JUÁREZ, Mexico — Golfers build their pro careers on the conceit that they are better than everyone else.
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The bit's conceit was, If men knew what being victims of sexual harassment and abuse felt like, would that change anything?
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Fidler, a well-known Australian radio broadcaster, uses the conceit of exploring Istanbul with his young son as a narrative prop.
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She's a ridiculous, flamboyant conceit and would be easy to write off if her depravity were not so yoked to her Jewishness.
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"Toy Story 4" takes that central conceit to a wonderful if logical extreme when the toys' new owner, Bonnie, tearfully starts kindergarten.
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That conceit seems to be gone this season, now that everybody's working on the same problems instead of living their separate lives.
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The key will be how long the conceit holds up; in real life, the F.B.I.'s traps have to be sprung eventually.
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In Bong's debut feature, "Barking Dogs Never Bite" (2000), the humanism is all but buried in a gruesome, urban-legend-inflected conceit.
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The conceit of the show is that it takes place in the year leading up to the stock market crash of Oct.
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That field, at least according to the exhibition's conceit, is the arena of violence, specifically the political violence exercised by the State.
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But the core conceit of the episode, underneath the pop culture hat tips, is buried deep in the philosophy of artificial intelligence.
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That's kind of the conceit of Artemis, where the commercial space industry has driven that price down far enough that it's affordable.
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Like all open world games, there is a conceit necessary for the player to be able to run roughshod over the space.
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Think about Rear Window, which uses the conceit of a wheelchair-bound photographer to bring us into the lives of his neighbors.
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This conceit is part and parcel of Game of Thrones' bitterly cynical thoughts on human nature, both in book and TV form.
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It took the conceit of a rental-only fashion business from strictly digital to brick-and-mortar before competitors even started surfacing.
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When we save here, we are particularly vulnerable, and a video game conceit we usually take for granted can result in death.
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It plays within the conceit of the world, but it's also giving you shots to cut together in a more traditional manner.
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It's sweet, it's fun, and it's actually a really nice conceit to the clever level design and success of another recent platformer.
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Fixation expands on its forerunner's conceit with the inclusion of more sophisticated dialogue and puzzles, and the introduction of better-developed characters.
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Here the dominant conceit is Mr. Allen's well-documented ambivalence about California and the industry that has often seemed ambivalent about him.
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The love triangle requires the writer and director, Sophie Goodhart, to take most of the sting out of her central comic conceit.
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And you're going to keep the musical's Abba-centric conceit — only you used up all the great Abba songs the first time.
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Similarly, the game Replica, while not strictly horror, uses the same exploratory conceit to build up tension and intrigue, as does Orwell.
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The basic conceit follows six separate stories, presumably anchored by Scruggs, played by Tim Blake Nelson of O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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The conceit is that a group of children in 1968 stumble on a book of, well, scary stories, that come to life.
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Above all, it has severed humanity from its conceit of control and of the invincibility of its institutions, science, technology and democracies.
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Throughout the many revisions, the conceit was always clear: the novel would be a letter addressed to Vuong's mother, who is illiterate.
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Like "Romantic Comedies," the central piece, "21 Extremely Bad Breakups," pushes its conceit to the point of absurdity, and then far beyond.
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At the end of "The Chosen Ones" there have been no consequences of the mysterious disappearance that is the show's central conceit.
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And in the third act, when Ms. Björfors's circus conceit began to run out of steam, Mr. McDermott's production reached its peak.
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The brash American meeting the old world Europe isn't a new conceit, but with Chace at the center of it, it's entertaining.
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The "Autobiography" was the idiosyncratic Stein's first best seller, a circular conceit written by Gertrude in Alice's voice, of their lives together.
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It's a conceit that "The Memory Police" chillingly inverts, by making two amnesiacs the protectors of a man whose mind is unimpaired.
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By moving past the main conceit of the games, Game Freak is opening up Sword and Shield to far more exciting adventures.
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The conceit, according to the producers is: Before Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were the undisputed titans of technology, they were Nerds.
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Moreover, the conceit is difficult to translate into opera: we can't perceive the transforming power of one voice when everyone is singing.
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It's a conceit that "The Memory Police" chillingly inverts, by making two amnesiacs the protectors of a man whose mind is unimpaired.
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She makes the horrific concept of the Games alluring, which is the fantastic, insidious conceit when you realize that's the entire point.
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Based around the conceit that each episode takes place inside a different "number 9," the show skillfully combines horror with humor seamlessly.
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The gameplay conceit was to spoof a voice lock, but in order to do so you needed samples of the user's voice.
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The paintings announce their cleverness and attempt to be provocative, but the conceit seems as flat and muted as the paintings themselves.
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But the conceit is that when celebrities share something via their personal social media accounts, it's representative of who they truly are.
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But it's all-in on its strange central monster conceit, on its cruel character dynamics, and on its rough, dark sense of humor.
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If we know, more or less, which characters made it to the bunker, the show's central conceit will be harder to invest in.
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It's a complete game that works, an original twist on the Angry Birds conceit, and exhibits some understanding of the broader gaming scene.
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Wave is such an abstract conceit that it's cheerleaders have been forced to make some pretty strange arguments in favor of its existence.
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Critics shouldn't say "it's like a video game," they should say "it's like this video game" or this genre, or this structural conceit.
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Following a clever curatorial conceit, the nudes are installed to confront the building site, which is populated during the day by male workers.
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What he does have, now as ever, is panache: He's a firecracker of a frontman, unafraid of strident commitment to a garish conceit.
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Though the actors partner well, "the key will be how long the conceit holds up," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times.
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The initial conceit is of reflections: a central soloist or pair in a circle of light twinned or flanked by others in dimness.
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The conceit of the game is fairly simple: you've been invited to an all-you-can-eat hot pot restaurant by a friend.
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To put it bluntly, the core narrative conceit of Dark Souls III is that all of the chickens have come home to roost.
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Carry This Book has a conceit with just the right amount of quirk, and illustrations that have just the right amount of stylization.
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VR shouldn't be used to enhance a work that can stand alone; it should be vital to the piece, from conceit to presentation.
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It's a conceit borrowed big from Intel's popular NUC line, though the NUC requires you to supply your own hard drive and ram.
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But Physique are making nothing new, because "new" is a bourgeois conceit when your chief concern is anthemic destruction of all oppressive systems.
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That conceit, though, is mitigated cleverly by both moguls: They capitalize on what Cowell has identified as a universal desire to feel important.
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Myrick: Artisan took our website conceit that this was sort of a real incident that took place in Maryland and ran with that.
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And you have to have some completely new concept or conceit in the plot to make it valid as a science fiction story.
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This is the core conceit of Project Winter, a game of survivors and those who want to kill them in an arctic hellscape.
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And even Chris Martin on his way to play the Super Bowl (hitchhiking there, so the conceit goes) has to stop for snacks.
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The conceit that activism ties these people together is tenuous, and in its absence, the thing they have left in common is trauma.
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The plot's framing conceit is that Parker's ghost has traveled to Birdland, the Midtown club named for him, to write a musical masterpiece.
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The ensuing love triangle requires the writer and director, Sophie Goodhart, to take most of the sting out of her central comic conceit.
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Further, the jingoistic belief that "God is on our side" is not simply a conceit but a cruel, blood-thirsty, wrong-headed one.
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" Rieff recoils at the conceit that memorialization is a moral and political duty, as well as a personal one in "our therapeutic age.
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The conceit of Mr. Pountney's "Ring" involves a behind-the-scenes look at a performing troupe presenting a show in an old theater.
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That's a big problem in a show that, more than the others, depends on our buying an unlikely conceit that's presented as fact.
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Just how amusing you find that conceit will largely determine how much you enjoy the book, winner of the prestigious German Book Prize.
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The film also benefits from an elegant structural conceit, running parallel timelines between the events leading up to the disaster and its aftermath.
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Other media companies have similar ownership structures under the conceit that entertainment and news products sometimes require management decisions outside of investor pressure.
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The conceit of the Anthropocene, the supposed new epoch we're living in, is that humanity can already make claims to its geological legacy.
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He's more of a conceit to rethink 18th-century art — too often dismissed as dainty — as something more worldly, more swashbuckling, more free.
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He's more of a conceit to rethink 23600th-century art — too often dismissed as dainty — as something more worldly, more swashbuckling, more free.
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No, the problem with a Trumpified Caesar is that the conceit fails to illuminate our moment the way a good classical allusion should.
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The show keeps reiterating its central premise, without grounding a dark conceit with the details that would give it gooseflesh-and-blood existence.
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The character's conceit is a mask that's always in danger of slipping, which complicates his heroism with moments of bluffing, comedy and doubt.
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This VHS conceit is a bit of a mixed metaphor given that you are playing the game, not watching someone else play it.
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Mr. Simon acknowledged that having twin characters, portrayed by the same actor, might seem like some Janus-faced conceit, but this was fact.
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Depicting Eichmann as he really was may have been more faithful to the man even if not to the conceit of the movie.
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But the GOP conceit that fiscal discipline applies only to the spending side of the federal budget and not to taxes is nonsense.
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Everyone else in "Sacred Deer" is slotted into a carefully measured box, working in the service of what is essentially a literary conceit.
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The theme's conceit changes midway through the puzzle, bisected by a split revealer at 38-, 39- and 40A, so watch out for that.
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Mr. Baumbach sticks with the short-story conceit throughout, but he uses it as both a guiding principle and a means to surprise.
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In a reversal of this conceit, Taraji P. Henson will be starring in "What Men Want," scheduled to reach theaters on Feb. 8.
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The conceit is rather ingenious: to use a graphically inventive style of animation to manufacture a caper involving the theft of famous paintings.
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It makes one suspect that Climate Change: Part One's middling, Hollywood-blockbuster conceit trades on this counterproductive sensationalism as a ploy for attention.
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Truax undoes the heterosexual conceit of intimacy by beginning his exhibition with a melange of queer works that gently depict the male nude body.
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It's a comedy about a couple of teenagers who decide to start robbing trains, which is an excellent conceit as far as I'm concerned.
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A state where a patriarchal, class-driven social order — the whole conceit of a game of thrones, really — is more irrelevant by the day.
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Because it's McKinnon it's fun to watch, but this conceit would barely even land as a joke tweet, much less a five-minute sketch.
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Baby Driver's basic conceit is that a talented getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) doesn't actually want to be a getaway driver, and he loves music.
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Unfortunately, that conceit doesn't work with the larger narrative, which requires Ashley's hit songs to be laughably inane and her handlers soulless and unethical.
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In keeping with its conceit of seeing artificial "hosts" (humanlike cyborgs) as objects, HBO's Westworld also had plenty of nudity in its first season.
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Goodson chose a simple formal conceit for Gray Matters: It is a group show featuring 37 artists working almost exclusively in shades of gray.
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Moore and Gibbons's conceit of Watchmen was to manipulate the heightened genre of superhero comic books to tell a story about our flawed world.
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You see, CEOs virtually all share the conceit that government would function better if business people were put in charge ... But not this time.
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Becoming a codified non-profit appeared to be the chief conceit of the event for Gays For Trump, though political aspirations didn't end there.
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The conceit behind neural networks is that they are supposed to think the way we do; but reinforcement learning doesn't really get us there.
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The conceit behind the book is that Zink wrote for her friend's entertainment and edification before she ever wrote for the public at large.
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At least, that's the conceit of a competition cosponsored by the Democratic National Committee at next week's Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas.
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She forces herself into this situation with her narrative conceit, which is to have the entire novel surround the thoughts leading toward Benjamin's climax.
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If the film's central conceit is that Rattigan just isn't that interesting or individualistic, it tracks that the film itself is the same way.
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The conceit of the question is that receding bond yields are a signal of slowing economic growth, rising financial risks and waning risk appetites.
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" It's the second really good trick that Flanagan plays with his conceit, but it's also — unintentionally, perhaps —" a laugh-out-loud funny face reveal.
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So we developed a new segment: The conceit was a character who always did things "wrong" so Pat could come out and teach him.
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Emerging markets like China and Mexico – thought to have been vulnerable as part of the whole Trump Trade conceit – well, they're doing just fine.
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The film's clever conceit — that it is a trailer for a longer Hollywood movie — lampoons the sensationalism of pop cinematic representations of climate change.
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Spicer attempted no fewer than four clarifications, starting with the conceit that the Jews killed in "Holocaust centers" weren't citizens (italics below are mine).
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Both movies share the conceit of isolated families starting anew, but "The Witch" particularly amplifies the foreshadowing of tragedy from the moment it starts.
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The game is sublimated warfare, and chess players are compelled to kill, but the martial conceit of chess allows us to experience aesthetic liberation.
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With this conceit and some technological wizardry Miller has made a collection of images that is at times wrenchingly beautiful and a bit elegiac.
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Queer Eye's entire conceit is that the Fab Five is made up of "experts," each needed in order for the hero to better themself.
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The new entries are trying to distinguish themselves in the execution as well as the conceit — to create complex characters and be about something.
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The three guitarists, Buck, Bloch and Escovedo, none of them young, whipped up a fury that made a mockery of the dinner-theatre conceit.
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This conceit is clearly borrowed from Robert Bresson's "Au Hasard Balthazar," in which a donkey suffers for the sins of a series of owners.
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Gangi has come up with a very cunning variation on the revenge fable, but when she strays from Jo, she undermines its simple conceit.
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Other questions I have: When is a genre-bending meta-novel no longer a clever postmodern conceit but merely a pretext for puerile shenanigans?
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This wall pulls off the trickiest conceit of the show, which is that, in the right context, color can rule as the sole baseline.
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The jokey central conceit is stretched too thin, but it allows Ms. Aidem to have an infectiously fine time as an arch self dramatizer.
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Aira did in fact turn 50 years old in 1999, when he completed the book, but the mid-life crisis is also a conceit.
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If Corden does too many of these two-in-a-row deals, it'll ruin the Carpool Karaoke conceit, and then where will we be?
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Identified as a single piece but clearly composed of distinct sections, it is a witty twist on the show's parts-to-the-whole conceit.
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"It just felt right that we should riff off that conceit and give Jane's fans the happily ever after they have been waiting for."
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"All the Dirty Parts" has a fascinating and winsome conceit — a coming-of-age narrative composed of the specific parts such narratives routinely omit.
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The unifying impulse in these opinions is the libertarian conceit that the free market is really free, not shaped by unequal power and vulnerability.
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For one thing, there is a conceit that educating the athletes through sport is at least as much a team priority as is winning.
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The conceit played off Dre's terror of falling back into poverty and his nostalgia for both his childhood and the sitcom that reflected it.
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The book's final chapter daringly undercuts Topics' structural conceit, which is that every story possesses inherent, equal value and is deserving of receptive attention.
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Worst Song: "Bitchin' in the Kitchen" Give "Bitchin'" credit for the bold conceit of characters expressing their relationship woes through television commercial-inspired wordplay.
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If the racial divide and animus was more acceptably expressed when Wright wrote the book, the filmmakers' conceit is that nothing has really changed.
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Going in, that character-driven formula was the plan for these Netflix shows, but the conceit has worn thinner as the series piled up.
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Although studios did their best to keep the fantasy alive, a quick glance at the films themselves was enough to blow the whole conceit.
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Broadly speaking, this is the conceit of The Podcast Engineering School and many thousands of YouTube videos, articles, and podcast programs on the internet.
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King uses this conceit to explore not only the processes by which we overcome our childhood fears, but the processes by which we don't.
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While the economist's conceit that people are profit-maximizing often doesn't hold true in society, in financial services it seems pretty close to the mark.
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And while that conceit is interesting on an intellectual level, it makes actually watching the movie into more of a chore than it should be.
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Among the early adopters of this trend, probably no one is applying more verve to the conceit than the members of the Drunk Shakespeare Society.
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This clever conceit allows Khorramian — who clearly loves making all kinds of things — ample room to maneuver, and she deftly ranges across mediums and materials.
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You know, for a movie with a name as truly dumb as Bloodshot, Bloodshot has a much more interesting sci-fi conceit than you'd expect.
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In other words: It's an all-too familiar conceit that has real life ramifications for the way that women see themselves and their own stories.
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In James's defense, Blatt might have better acknowledged the conceit of American (or N.B.A.) exceptionalism, and not bristled whenever questioned about his league rookie status.
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But there's now a teaser out — and it looks like things have evolved quite a bit, with the show taking on a much goofier conceit.
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It's a 2D puzzle platformer with a strange conceit: what if adjusting the size of the window the game ran in altered the game's environment?
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The conceit seems to be resonating: the brand raked in $753 million in sales in the 2015 fiscal year, up from $74.8 million in 2014.
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In general, the image of an American president wielding a big stick plays well with voters who bought into Trump's "Make America Great Again" conceit.
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Belcher said this progressive blind spot manifested itself in a central conceit of the Clinton campaign: that she'd do better than Obama among white women.
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But the show refreshes the genre through a comical conceit: Erskine and Konkle, both 31-year-old comedians, also play their 13-year-old selves.
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The idea of omniscience itself is kind of held in doubt, and it may not have ever really existed, it was more of a conceit.
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There's a lot of subjectivity here, and Kilduff-Taylor is still probably more entertained than I am by the conceit of the Tokyo 41 campaign.
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It's a conceit that requires the two actors to click in a particular way, humorously but leaving room for high action and occasionally somber moments.
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It may be a conceit, but I like to think of such tenants as refugees of a sort, finding havens from life's vagaries and mishaps.
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The conceit is that Wagner is hosting a household performance of "Meistersinger," and members of his family and his circle are matched to suitable roles.
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The show, featuring songs by Joe Iconis and a book by Mr. Iconis, Lance Rubin and Jason SweetTooth Williams, turns on a willfully silly conceit.
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In an amusing touch, he's portrayed by a human actor, Zach Kononov, not a puppet, adding a layer of absurdity to this already absurd conceit.
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As the title suggests, the conceit is that when we humans are away, our furry, scaly, feathered companions get up to all kinds of mischief.
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A continuation of the Steven Soderbergh-helmed franchise starring George Clooney, it's built around the conceit What if women had been involved in those heists?
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The conceit gets a dreary workout when he assumes the blonde is there for the unclogging and the black woman is his object for sex.
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Literary proceduralism resembles artistic conceptualism in that both operate through an underlying conceit or schema to realize, or gesture toward the realization of, the work.
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He's made dozens of variants on the same basic conceit—plus a sweet enamel pin—and the reason, he says, is it mellows him out.
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That's the delicious conceit animating "Harry Clarke," the one-man, double-life play by David Cale that opened on Tuesday night at the Vineyard Theater.
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That's the conceit of this episode, in which season four's Big Bad, Adam, tries to get Spike to turn the Scooby Gang against each other.
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A common American conceit is that we attract brilliant foreigners because we have brilliant things: great universities, vast financial resources, a dynamic economy, high-tech.
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The conceit of No Players Online seems to be that you've found a VHS recording of an unfinished Quake-era online competitive first-person shooter.
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The killer conceit is that he's singing mostly about the machine carrying her; singing all about the woman herself would be too much to bear.
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The mushier the movie grows—and, by the end, it's a kind of emotional oatmeal—the more it abandons the wit of its main conceit.
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I've never read the book, but from what I gather, the movie is an almost complete departure from the text outside of its core conceit.
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Jokes like these, based on exaggerated depictions of minorities, appear pretty often in Sandler comedies — if not as the main conceit, then in the gags.
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"While the central conceit is unique and the performances are fun, each episode is weighed down with endless padding," said Stuart Heritage in The Guardian.
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Or The Blair Witch Project, which blew apart the world of horror with a highly original marketing campaign and a standard-setting found-footage conceit.
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In true crime shows, podcasts, and documentaries — regardless of their format — there's a conceit of giving power to the listener, perhaps to solve the crime.
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Too often, the conceit of an "Animals" vignette is to take a familiar setup — an awkward dinner party, say — and add the joke: But they're fish!
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It still works within that familiar conceit of Team Axis versus Team Allies, rendering World War 2 once again as an exercise in tactics and skill.
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The conversation faltered, though the conceit was provocative: historical documents that pertain to the treatment of indigenous people sourced from the time of the American Revolution.
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"The Other Side of the Wind" certainly anticipates the "found-footage" faux-documentary conceit which was all the rage in horror movies a few years ago.
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There was the central conceit that adorable supernatural creatures are hiding all over your neighborhood, and the rare-object-collecting mechanic that kept exploration feeling fresh.
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In less capable hands, this conceit could be Too Much, but Rosenberg is as dexterous in storytelling as his protagonist is with locks; everything just fits.
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Whereas most improv gets laughs through broad characters and dizzying plot twists, these companies delight in nothing more than a comic conceit about grammar or pronunciation.
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Comedian Bill Maher hosted a hit show, "Politically Incorrect," where the entire conceit was that hosts and guests would not be restrained in what they said.
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But Prevenge leans into the absurdity of its central conceit, and Lowe succeeds in making her antihero seem almost rational even as she becomes increasingly unhinged.
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Mike Skinner's latest track from his The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light project voices both the promise and conceit of these nocturnal endurance tests.
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The conceit of those claiming Mr. Trump has crossed some line in ordering the Justice Department to comply with oversight is that "investigators" are beyond question.
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Add in the unusual conceit of this picture, with its spontaneous songs and incessant rhymes, and it's easy to see why Chi-Raq drew mixed reviews.
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Now, with matching clear lenses and eyeglass frames, it's easy to see how the conceit of Almost Famous suffers under the fashions of our own age.
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The novelty of the MacBook-screen conceit has worn off, but Unfriended has also picked up a lot of positive world of mouth in the interim.
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This is a popular conceit in fiction especially because it has its roots in the truth: The CIA's gruesome and notorious "MKUltra" program from the 1950s.
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The irony is that Bandersnatch uses the choose-your-own-adventure conceit as part of a meta-narrative about questioning the very nature of free will.
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And its most daring conceit has been to place every single one of those women at the center of the narrative at one point or another.
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Those moments also tap into an old conceit of equality as a sort of revenge fantasy, mixed with the undertone of a battle of the sexes.
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Health care historian Howard Markel, who runs the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, said the conceit is actually fairly accurate.
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And the game's conceit, in which many enter but only one leaves, draws on the cultural resonance of films like Battle Royale and The Hunger Games.
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The Economist: Doubters may say that finding a cerebral solution like "mental models" to a problem like political atomisaton is just a conceit of intellectual snowflakes.
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Thankfully, Netflix released a synopsis and, although it is still strangely bad and full of sentence fragments, it at least lays out a basic narrative conceit.
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That comedic conceit allows "Roadies" to bring in an eclectic list of singers and bands including the Head and the Heart, Lindsey Buckingham, Halsey and Lucius.
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Once you grasp its basic conceit, about which I am deliberately being coy, there aren't too many places for it to go that will surprise you.
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That was the conceit of Turn-On, an ABC series that replaced a laugh track with a Moog soundtrack and loaded the result with raunchy jokes.
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It grounds the conceit in something urgent and keeps it honest, and at the same time, it allows the personal material to hide in plain sight.
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If you're only familiar with Pokémon Go, you'll find that while the core conceit of catching Pokémon is still the same, the methodology is completely different.
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It's a neat solution, and especially so because the developer, High Voltage, even found a cool fictional conceit for why I'd play a game this way.
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The show's dominant conceit, though, is that of an ongoing requiem, for a people unwittingly taking part in a long funeral procession to their own graves.
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The conceit of Amy E. Jones's staging for Out of the Box Theatrics is that Trisha is a speaking at a Diocese of Texas discovery retreat.
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The Hogarth Press series of contemporary reimaginings of Shakespeare's plays is a venerable conceit as old as the playwright himself, that notorious magpie of usable plot.
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Since 2011, the "Home Improvement" star has been doing a new show with a similar conceit: "Last Man Standing," which recently moved from ABC to Fox.
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Before she's halfway through the play, Ms. Schreck gives up the conceit of being 15, coming fully into the present as a woman in her 40s.
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Ms. Wade's conceit, clever without ever turning arch, allows her an onstage surrogate in the form of the bristling, quick-witted Laura (a terrific Louise Ford).
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If Trump loses, his supporters will be able to dismiss that loss as reflective not of Trump's record in office but the conceit of the spoiler.
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The conceit: a work wear capsule collection from three British retailers (Marks & Spencer, John Lewis & Partners, and Jigsaw) and Ms. Nonoo, who works in New York.
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Every so often, they convene and scheme on the theater's foyer stairway, which has been scattered with women's shoes, a conceit seemingly borrowed from the production.
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That's the conceit behind this Christmas special, which pays tribute to holiday variety shows of the past hosted by Bing Crosby, Johnny Cash and the Carpenters.
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In "The Rules Do Not Apply," a writer for The New Yorker interrogates the hoary conceit of "having it all" after a harrowing miscarriage and divorce.
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It started as a gimmick event, with the narrative conceit being that teams of five (or, more rarely, four) people would face off in elimination tag matches.
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The central conceit is an income-share agreement (ISA): students pay nothing while attending the school and then pay a portion of their earnings once they're employed.
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Intelligent without conceit, funny without focusing on funny people, and with an ever-changing aesthetic identity, it really is a magazine at the vanguard of print culture.
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However, it might be fair to say that his conceit requires a clearer buy-in, something to justify the omniscient narration, the direct address to Mrs. Haven.
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That is the conceit of IRL Glasses, a pair of glasses that uses horizontal polarization to make screens that are on look as though they are off.
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The only conceit of any note is that the six-episode series is that it's set in the 1960s, drawing upon the polarized nature of the period.
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This is how Ms Shafak's book gets its title, and its conceit, as the dead-but-not-dead Leila scrolls back through the story of her life.
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You got your goofy cowboys-in-outer-space conceit, your crew-on-a-doomed-mission-to-nowhere, and your holodeck VR escapades (including some very specific fantasies).
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Often the album's dreamy ambience dilutes a songwriting conceit she could have twisted; "High Horse" and "Space Cowboy," a "Desperado" rewrite, are punchlines reverse-engineered into songs.
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This comic opens with a fanciful conceit: the sole survivor of a spaceship explosion has become trapped, like an insect in amber, within physical globules of memory.
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The book, which contains recipes and personal stories from 76 iconic artists and writers, was actually inspired by a 1961 book of the same title and conceit.
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Carbon farming's fundamental conceit is that if we change how we treat this land, we could turn huge areas of the earth's surface into a carbon sponge.
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It's such a ridiculous conceit—the entire train is a rolling metaphor—and yet it's carried off with such style and wit that is somehow just works.
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History is the playground of the Assassin's Creed games, and Origins adheres to the series's primary conceit: you, the player, are the most important figure in history.
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Where Forza Motorsport, Gran Turismo, and Driveclub fawn over the cold, aerodynamic details of their vehicles, Driver: San Francisco, by its body-swapping central conceit, belies fetishization.
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In February, Abrams told outlets like Fandango and Entertainment Weekly that there is a "larger conceit" at play in the Cloverfield universe that could connect these stories.
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Collecting exotic birds and a few mammals in his elaborately designed gardens at Versailles enabled the characterization of his human subjects as similarly "bestial," reinforcing this conceit.
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Yacenda: I don't what we're allowed to talk about, but the core conceit is probably it would be another medium-stakes crime taken to really serious ends.
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Climate mitigation now risks looking like an elite project: the conceit of the global Davos set, something for the Bill Gates's and Richard Bransons of this world.
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Glamorama is a dated but extremely funny satire, and a complicated novel with a simple, simply hip conceit: what if fashion models were recruited to be terrorists?
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The novel centers on the unlikely conceit of a hungover, machismo-drenched tennis match between the painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo in 16th-century Italy.
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The conceit of Franken's skit is that a nerdy male officer has written a part for a beautiful younger woman, and she has to audition for it.
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This is, it's worth noting, actually a pretty well-worn conceit, beyond the "people killing people" vibe of "The Purge" franchise, which also comes from Blumhouse Productions.
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Don't challenge his record, don't call him a troglodyte — just challenge the conceit that a likable but past-his-prime uncle makes the right contrast with Trump.
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Mr. Soleimanpour's theatrical style first came to New York a couple of years ago with "White Rabbit Red Rabbit," a play that shares this cold-read conceit.
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Early on, the pair developed the idea of "the series," a quick list of 12 tweets describing all of the signs in terms of a single conceit.
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But loving this show means worrying that it might be devoured by its own genius, that it's too great to last, that, eventually, conceit will cannibalize concept.
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The edits snap, the colors pop and the cinematography serves the performances and the story rather than embalming them in an emptily showy, self-regarding directorial conceit.
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Even HBO's comedy "Veep" has this problem — it's poetically foul-mouthed, but has the charming conceit that the characters need to keep their obscenities from the public.
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The script fizzes, leaning into its own conceit, with Banderas rising to the challenge beautifully, playing Mallo with all the wit and rakish charm one might expect.
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And "Colossal" itself wrings a great deal of fun — and also some genuine terror, by no means all of it monster-related — from its blithely bizarre conceit.
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Raising Dion, the new family-oriented superhero show from Netflix based on the comic book series of the same name by Dennis Liu, is a compelling conceit.
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"Both shades of narcissism shared a common core of conceit, arrogance, and the tendency to give in to one's own needs and disregard others," Scientific American reports.
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The conceit that the routine practice of claiming Native-ness is largely harmless and that most people bar themselves from spreading such falsities is an indefensible lie.
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And yet in the second season of "Barry" Bill Hader—the show's star and creator—proved both Barry's enduring humanity and the durability of the show's conceit.
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The problem here is that the basic conceit of American federalism is that state governments are, in some sense, "closer to the people" than the federal government.
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What justifies Keates's book is a 20th-century conceit that there was something fundamentally wrong with the late-18th- and 19th-century editions and performances, Mozart's included.
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The conceit is that Anthony's Trump, in an effort to evade his presidential duties and satisfy his insatiable need for attention, is hosting a weekly talk show.
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The origin of the conceit lies in the budgetary opposition between guns and butter in classic economics — the tension between spending on domestic programs or spending on war.
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Staffers wear the aforementioned Hawaiian shirts, and Italian and Mexican foods come with "Trader Giotto" and "Trader José" packaging, a cute conceit that extends across its product range.
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Directed by Tim Story ("Fantastic Four"), from a script credited to "Black-ish" creator Kenya Barris and Alex Barnow, "Shaft" doesn't bring much finesse to that central conceit.
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The conceit of the piece is that the young artist has attired herself as a 50-year-old woman trying to look 25, Wilson's age at the time.
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It's a game where I enjoyed thoughtlessly sucking up money for no purpose outside of the act itself, a conceit compelling enough to get me to the end.
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It's a clever, if occasionally too-on-the-nose, conceit that winds up underscoring just what an opaque figure Kael, who died in 2001, was and still is.
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According to Hashimoto, the defining narrative conceit of the game is the idea that everything in the world — from people to objects to places — is imbued with memories.
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It's a gameplay conceit that helps make the game stand out in a crowded fighting game genre, but it's also one that necessitated a new roster of characters.
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The conceit is simple yet dramatic: A man brushes his teeth with the faucet running as a little girl tries to drink from its flow with cupped hands.
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"When I discovered Snapchat, I could see that it brought verve back into social media," Nonoo told Refinery29 of how she decided on her latest fresh show conceit.
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Usually, The Bachelor manages to walk this fine line well, helping viewers forget the dating show is actually built on a cynical conceit filled with rejection and drama.
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There's little reason to believe Wesearchr as an entity has any direct ties to White House dealings, but its conceit makes Johnson's alleged presence in those spheres believable.
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But from the first few episodes, it became apparent that it has a lot more to it than a silly-sounding title / conceit, including a lot of heart.
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It's one of the most searched-for porns, and the conceit behind it is that this woman has to fuck this dude in order to get a job.
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Comic Anthony Atamanuik does a pretty uncanny Trump impersonation, the conceit being that he intends to "talk to the American people directly" by hosting this weekly half-hour.
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Dietland is based on a book by Sarai Walker and is extremely ballsy about its twist conceit, which involves murdering a lot of men accused of sex crimes.
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There's a sci-fi element this time around (also, a weird prog rock thing), but the general conceit of exploring a strange, once-inhabited place remains the same.
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Ben Bernanke, at the time a new governor at the Federal Reserve, made reference to Friedman's conceit in speeches about dispelling deflation, earning himself the nickname "Helicopter Ben".
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It is about encouraging political referees to think critically before using the Griffin episode as a crutch for the easy conceit that both sides have envenomed partisan politics.
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It is a sly writerly conceit, equating a mastery of words with a mastery of the world, but it also grounds the plot in the pursuit of knowledge.
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Adiós Utopia meanwhile memorializes the driving utopian conceit of contemporary Cuban art, its galleries a testament to the credulity of its dream, long dismantled and yet perpetually present.
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But Timberlake—who made the album with the guidance of Pharrell, another early-aughts star who has persisted into this decade—cannot seem to stick to his conceit.
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The organizing conceit is that a narrator is writing the book we are reading, located within "a house of two or, perhaps, three stories," peopled by fictional writers.
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But Previn's interviews become just another layer, another conceit that rehabilitates the image of a disgraced man by romanticizing his relationship and vilifying Mia Farrow as an abuser.
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The cool sci-fi conceit may be the hook, but it's the glimpses of humanity that linger long after this half-hour trip into the future is over.
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It's poorly acted and not particularly scary on paper, but solely by using the found footage conceit, it manages to be greater than the sum of its parts.
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It's a halfway-effective conceit, showcasing his skill at pacing and crosscutting and relieving some of the claustrophobia of the tense indoor scenes in Entebbe and Tel Aviv.
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The simple unfolding of the relationship between a dying gay activist and his until-now apolitical gay buddy serves as the perfect conceit for a very Capraesque tale.
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"Papi Chulo" tries to subvert the conceit that casts brown people as uncomplicated support systems for conflicted white people, but lacks the vision to transform these familiar stereotypes.
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Not all the photos in Dark City conform to this conceit; that is, some of Saville's locations remain "places," fully inhabiting themselves even if anonymous-looking and unpeopled.
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While the "getting in touch with your exes" conceit has a whiff of High Fidelity about it, Scrotal Recall is more reminiscent of How I Met Your Mother.
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But the astute depiction of modern-day teenage culture and pitch-perfect ensemble cast moves "American Vandal" beyond the clever conceit and into the realm of masterful comedy.
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Its central conceit (sort of) is that Agüero goes to visit those who have visited him at his home, but it's really a film with two main parts.
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Nicdao and Charlotte Bird Matheson (who both appeared in SyFy's Childhood's End miniseries in 2015) have an easy chemistry that's explored in creative ways without breaking the conceit.
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The conceit of Kind Words (which came out last September before any of this, if you can believe it) is that we're all a little scared and vulnerable.
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Warren's merch isn't all about her love of plans and her hatred of billionaires; it's also about the identities of her supporters, a popular conceit among Democratic offerings.
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Headed up by Rita (Paola Núñez), AMMO is the primary way by which the film homes in on its obvious-but-effective conceit: Lowrey and Burnett are old.
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Mordecai RosenfeldNew York To the Editor: The underlying conceit of the editorial is that an Ivy League education can be a critical factor in a student's future success.
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In the complicated visual conceit of "1917," multiple takes were seamlessly edited together to make the film appear as if it were made up of a single shot.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The conceit of the movie Yours in Sisterhood is simple: People read unpublished letters written to Ms. magazine between 1972 and 1980.
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The conceit is almost always the same — an opening apology, followed by an offer coupled with the idea that somehow you, and only you could be the one.
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SM: I've written in the past that Trump is kind of a real-life version of "Dave," and he's showing the downsides of what's basically a comedy conceit.
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Kobe Bryant is trademarking a phrase he coined, "Friends Hang Sometimes Banners Hang Forever," which is the athlete's version of the artist's conceit that art is everything, life nothing.
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And while Gigi Hadid's and Victoria Beckham's affinity for oversized turtlenecks isn't exactly a completely new conceit, it's the most practical thing we've seen since Rihanna at the dentist.
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The exhibition's central visual conceit is its pairing of photographs from opposite sides: twin images of queues at dairy depots, of bombed-out buildings, of soldiers in frontal poses.
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It's a conceit very similar to indie title Gratuitous Space Battles, but TABS' wacky, flailing polygon people add a level of surrealism to the experience that made me smile.
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Without knowing about the HIV diagnosis, or Angel's desires, or Damon's abusive situation, the program's conceit of "find a family that accepts you" wouldn't resonate with the same impact.
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Crackdown 3 initially promised to go even further with this conceit, as something of a post-modernist, open-world game in which the player destroys the entire open world.
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But "Sylvia," despite being one of Mr. Gurney's more popular plays — the woman-plays-dog conceit probably helps — feels tediously overextended and repetitive at two hours and two acts.
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The conceit behind this movie is entirely ridiculous, and I also find it impossible to take a movie seriously when its lead actor looks like a young Julian Casablancas.
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The problem with King's current hot streak is that everything short of his shopping lists will be made into movies and TV shows, no matter how slim the conceit.
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But Chaffetz more or less just gave away the big conceit: You're going to have to cut back on modern "luxuries" like a phone if you want health insurance.
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But if the conceit is that blockchain is inherently more democratic and the code can't be corrupted in the way a human can, then you can't blame the code.
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But before you go ahead and pull your hair out trying to find the perfect aesthetic or intellectual conceit, simply ask yourself what you want the show to do.
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It also offers the coy conceit that a framed photo of a barely visible Obama is more important to him than standing next to Trump in the (orange) flesh.
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The main conceit of the show is watching Erskine and Konkle grapple with the growing pains of adolescence as tweens surrounded, bullied, and romantically pursued by actual middle schoolers.
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But we should not put a new conservative in charge of conservatism or the country, so that he does not become puffed up with conceit and fall into condemnation.
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The conceit could become a shtick in the hands of a lazier artist, but Wegman executes it with his signature humor and an impeccable handling of composition and color.
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As TV storytelling got more ambitious, the reality-breaking conceit of a nearby audience waiting to laugh at all the designated punchlines seemed to many like an outdated concept.
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At bottom, the Obama administration's ultimate fatal conceit is that it never grasped one of the simplest yet fundamental precepts of economics: Firms are not passive recipients of regulation.
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Jewell has explained that the conceit for "The Girls in the Garden," her 13th novel, was borrowed from real life: Her family's home abuts just such a communal garden.
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It's a curious conceit for a movie less because as dates go this one is pretty low key but because the writer-director Richard Tanne mistakes faithfulness for truthfulness.
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While his progress has undercut that thesis, it hasn't been fully disproved, since the "party decides" conceit doesn't tell us about what happens when the party simply can't decide.
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That's grading on a curve, however, for a series whose initial conceit and execution -- chronicling the outbreak on the opposite coast -- has been most notable for its general lifelessness.
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Sex Criminals explains its conceit and the rules behind it by letting the characters themselves talk us through it, because it's scarcely less puzzling to them than to us.
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Underground Airlines is a smart, well-crafted book with a big, attention-grabbing conceit, and the Times profile could have been the crown jewel in a perfect publicity run.
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While sticker shock is bound to ensue, we're eager to see (and, likely, attempt to crib) these wide-ranging, winking takes on the nearly-played-out designer collab conceit.
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Early in the podcast, Koenig informs her audience that "we are telling this story in order," planting the conceit that listeners were accompanying her on all her reportorial wanderings.
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Like other government-centric healthcare proposals, this plan rests on the fatal conceit that the government can manage the health care needs and choices of all of its citizens.
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That disgusting conceit provides a fitting central image for the movie, a cold-blooded noir in which the overarching question is which chumps will become chum, literal or metaphorical.
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Its conceit is that the reader is seated next to you on a plane, and its chapters are broken up with passages about your hobbies like ceramics and yoga.
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The conceit behind these New York Times "exit interviews" is that artists can talk about what they experienced, and what they learned, as a run comes to a close.
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Yet the further adventures of Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl and their three gifted children prove to be a durable conceit, like watching a two-hour block of quality serialized television.
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This film feels less like the playing out of a conceit (in the manner of another 2017 feature "The Day After") than the attempt to work out a problem.
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The nimble, sensuous guest verse from the lite-reggaeton star Maluma ends up serving as a kind of rebuke — of the song's other performer, and also of its conceit.
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The basic plot — a woman collecting payback from the men who have assaulted her — is not exactly new, and it's a conceit that can be used as an alibi.
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And Julius Randle, a powerful young man freed of the disastrous conceit that he could play point forward and distribute the ball, has become a reliable scorer and rebounder.
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Imagine a Russian setting out to write a history of New York City using only Russian-language material, and you have the inherent conceit that undermines this ambitious project.
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The basic conceit involves a flight that hits turbulence before the plane and passengers land, it turns out, five years later, having not aged a bit during that lapse.
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Just as the relentless abrasiveness of the conceit threatens to wear thin, a strange pathos takes hold, as if Wilde's well-heeled characters were imprisoned in a postmodern madhouse.
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The conceit being that the last batch of ads were so successful (GE claims they boosted its number of job applications beyond expectations) that job-seekers can't stay away.
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If someone comes up to you on the street, points a gun at you and says, "Give me all your money!" then, under Graham's conceit, you aren't being robbed.
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Reportedly, one Australian street artist named Lushsux took the new pop culture icon into the real world by applying the conceit of Pickle Rick to an Israeli-Palestinian border wall.
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The central conceit of 1995's Johnny Mnemonic is that Reeves plays a futuristic courier who has given up his childhood memories in order to create space for data storage.
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As odd as it may seem, little has changed in the general conceit of the espresso machine since the first patent for one was filled in Italy back in 1884.
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The conceit for the original article was to imagine that the N.C.A.A.'s "amateurism" model — which, of course, enables that exploitation — had magically disappeared, finally allowing athletes to be paid.
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Ms. Manzel and her co-star, Max Hopp, executed the central conceit of Mr. Kosky's staging: two singers playing all the roles in a tale set backstage at a theater.
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It's a clever conceit, especially considering how dependent we've seen the doctors become on their iPads, imaging technology in surgery and diagnosis, 3D printing, and other tech hacks into medicine.
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In 2015, the movie Unfriended landed in theaters, telling a conventional supernatural revenge story with an unconventional conceit: the entire film took place on the screen of one character's laptop.
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But unfortunately, we do live in a post-Stranger Things world, and given the striking similarities — in setting, conceit, aesthetic, and score — it's impossible to avoid comparing the two works.
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Director Gavin O'Connor is a muscular, occasionally stirring filmmaker (Warrior, Miracle), specializing in mixing in the emotional with the brutal, but The Accountant's messy conceit gets away from him quickly.
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That is literally where Lola comes from, and so I wanted to create a genre conceit around this real feeling of violation and loss of agency that I was feeling.
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Rick's true nature has gone from the show's core conceit to its laziest fallback, and it doesn't feel like TWD has any more of an answer than us audience members.
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"If Only" finds her considering what might have been — a conceit that also fuels the album's most potent song, "Everything I Couldn't Be," a rueful waltz written with Dave Brainard.
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We don't hear the son directly, however, only the father's answers, and the slightly awkward conceit draws attention to itself each time Dad repeats his kid's questions back to him.
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It makes for an interesting contrast with "Duck Dynasty," which was subversive in its own way when it first appeared in 2012 but took its conceit in the opposite direction.
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So the conceit is, perhaps one or a handful of companies will be responsible for providing the connective tissue that serves us all in our nifty workplaces of the future.
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When Neni starts working for Cindy Edwards at the family's vacation house in the Hamptons, the conceit is ripe — the Jongas of Harlem pitted against the Edwardses of the Hamptons.
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The conceit of our question was this: If AI algorithms change, and logically they should over time, then wouldn't you want a chip you can reprogram to accommodate those changes?
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The conceit of Bitcoin as a good place to store money, he added, will be less convincing when the price of Bitcoin goes down, as it has in the past.
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But despite a structural conceit that establishes the action as an exercise in deterministic tragedy, the show, directed by Joe Mantegna and marred by a mawkish underscore, lacks propulsive energy.
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This is an unspoken assumption underlying Trump's "America First" ideology, an invitation to a Hobbesian world of all against all, with the conceit that the all-powerful U.S. will win.
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The conceit of Gotti speaking to the audience from beyond the grave might have been more effective had he been given dialogue that didn't make him sound like an idiot.
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The underlying conceit of "Mosaic" is tied to the notion of TV consumption increasingly being a two-screen experience, tapping into viewers' appetites for additional content to augment passive viewing.
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Like those movies, and like his later, lesser entertainments ("The Village"; "The Happening"), "Split" is all plot, an ingenious (and also ridiculous) conceit spun into an elegant ribbon of suspense.
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The movie's conceit is hit-miss, but when it works -- yielding deadpan insults and pained expressions -- there are enough laughs to make digging up "Ferns" look like a fine idea.
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The conceit of the show is that each season will be about a different campaign run by its title character, Payton Hobart (Platt), presumably on his way to the presidency.
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The Blacksonian has one pivotal conceit, one metaphorical device that you need to embrace despite its hokiness, despite its comical proximity to a set of stairs, and it's the elevator.
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The conceit of friendly locals renting out spare rooms has been supplanted by a more mercenary model, in which centuries-old apartment buildings are hollowed out with ersatz hotel rooms.
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But a 19603 novel by the Ugandan writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi inverts that conceit: What if a curse expressed all the ways that families, cities and nations fail to cohere?
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"What Men Want" doesn't stick to that conceit, however, despite such barbed moments as when Nick says aloud that he would fire Ali if he didn't fear a #MeToo outcry.
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He is proof that conceit can kill a youngster's career, and further proof that youngsters, given too much exposure, are bound to become conceited without the presence of a guiding hand.
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In one memorable turn, she played a talk-show host on That 70s Show, despite the headache-inducing conceit that her character's show was contemporaneous with The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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The conceit of all those companies is that if you just take one-to-many and make it one-to-many-many-many, it's going to change the way everyone learns.
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Not that everything is answered in the end — but it manages to explore the Groundhog Day-like conceit inside and out and close off key emotional arcs in eight quick episodes.
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Millennials, an unintentionally hilarious conceit that pretended Gen-X is known for hard work and fiscal responsibility, and not shitty music and being awarded jobs right out of community college. Anyway.
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The show's original conceit and central problem was that it tried to too hard to imitate the original, without taking into account the diverse lived experiences of queer and straight women.
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The conceit is that a magical movie projector allows guests to step inside an old adventure movie, a premise Dreamscape co-founder Walter Parkes notes can naturally lead to future installments.
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The story's central conceit, where Wade is pulled into a goofy and unrealistic reality show, falls flat, especially when it tries to paint a random TV executive as a cartoonish villain.
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The conceit behind Once Upon a Deadpool — the reworked, PG-13 cut of Deadpool 2, peppered with frame story intermissions starring Fred Savage — is perhaps just so stupid that it works.
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What people want, ultimately, from so much of political writing is a new metaphor, a new take, a new conceit to, unfortunately, tell them that which they already know or believe.
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The conceit of the film up to this point has been that it is an adaptation of Brinkley's official biography, The Life of a Man, written by the psychoanalyst Clement Wood.
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Because Badoink's format is built around a passive male/active female conceit, addressing concepts like communication, or anything relying on two equally active participants, is a little bit of a challenge.
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And yet the porousness between "nature" and the city means that there's no boundary to draw, no genre conceit to keep sacred, other than the ones that are in your head.
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And the show's central conceit, showing events from overlapping and often contradictory perspectives, forced not only the writers but also the actors to present multiple takes on each of those issues.
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Mr. Chan has done these unlikely-buddy yarns before, of course — "Shanghai Noon," the "Rush Hour" movies — and sometimes has made the conceit work, but this incarnation lacks originality and spark.
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In that sense, Trump's missive plays right into the hands of the reclusive regimes propaganda conceit, much as his threat to rain "fire and fury" on North Korea did last year.
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The Space Ghost: Coast to Coast spinoff was one of the first Adult Swim masterpieces, taking Space Ghost's whole Hanna-Barbera-in-the-real-world conceit to even more brilliant levels.
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" The film also blends genres, "I took a fictional conceit, I kind of built a box that's a concept, or a fictional concept, which is the film within a film idea.
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Lucas is perhaps best known for her works that adopt perishable food as explicit sexual signifiers to question traditional depictions of the female body and the conceit of the macho male.
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I thought that the conceit was interesting, and I thought that the game's "twist" was neat, but I ultimately thought it was a great idea that didn't pan out for me.
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The conceit suits this veritable abattoir of a play in which children exist to be done away with: Why shouldn't these "weird sisters" function as an eerie reminder of that fact?
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This brawl takes place in an episode called "Safe Room," which is a brilliant conceit: Putting the entire family on lockdown allows for several intense dramas to take place at once.
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We weren't prepared for Netflix's Big Mouth — a gleefully filthy animated comedy about the horror that is puberty — to be as sharp and sweet as it is, given its tricky conceit.
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But Verhoeven and his collaborators' conceit was to make the kind of war movie such a society would make about itself, celebrating the virtues espoused by the fictional society it depicts.
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For it has been a conceit of some historians to make a connection between seemingly unconnected phenomena, like the consumption of tea and the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan.
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The death-by-VCR conceit has been pretty thoroughly exhausted at this point, imitation being the sincerest form of flattery — see, for instance, "Beyond the Gates," which came out in December.
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J. K. Rowling transports Harry Potter's wizardly world to 1926 New York in this first installment in a planned series whose conceit is that it was spun from a Hogwarts textbook.
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The series appears to be following the same conceit of Stålenhag's book, although the action appears to have been shifted to the Midwest of America as opposed to the Swedish suburbs.
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The name of their self-titled debut's opening track dates back to R&B romps of the '40s and '50s, but as usual, Ocasek's goal was to undermine a familiar conceit.
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He could also use the conceit to explain to his supporters and more moderate voters why the second half of his own term is unlikely to yield any big legislative victories.
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Smirnoff denied any sort of marketing stunt, which makes sense if you consider that the central conceit is that being forced to drink a Smirnoff Ice is a form of punishment.
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There have been other parodies and commentaries aplenty: Jena Friedman has created videos poking fun at us, and Zach Miller's "Veiled Conceit," a blog from years ago, was the most elaborate.
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With it came the idea that anyone can create content, proliferating the conceit of a personal brand, an acknowledgment that our online personas are curated ideals rather than our authentic selves.
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The conceit is that this movie's game masters absolutely intend to kill the six invitees who at first find themselves in a waiting area that turns into a people-cooking oven.
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The show's central conceit is to throw money at individual borrowers, frustratingly (though understandably) leaving aside the question of what to do with the approximately 44,000,000 other student debtors out there.
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Simply put, players get to use the physics-based conceit to make music, instead of spraying tiny versions of George W. Bush and the Numa Numa guy with a fire hose.
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I was really interested in how it might be possible to do such a story, and tried to create a conceit that made it work (abandoned terminals, deserted world, AI, etc).
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"The naïf cum babe in the woods cum new guy in town cum man-boy cum…visitor-in-an-unusual-environment conceit was, uh…was very, very good to me," he said.
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The main conceit here is that the movie largely unfolds from the perspective of JJ (Jessie T. Usher of "Survivor's Remorse"), short for John Shaft Jr., who grew up without knowing him.
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Building off its initial "Valley Girl kills vampires" conceit, Buffy tore out of the gate with pithy dialogue that proved this teen-centric supernatural show had its own particular sense of humor.
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But by then scores of copycats had cropped up, along with a major magazine franchise built on the best-dressed conceit — People magazine's Best & Worst Dressed issue, which exists to this day.
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The crossover conceit gets put into motion early on, when a Thanos attack forces Banner and Stark to seek help from Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), and things just get wilder from there.
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The basic conceit of philanthropy is that rich people are simply better at distributing society's vast resources than the government is, basically just by virtue of having accumulated a lot of them.
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We very pointedly never see his face, the blank mask making him not an individual man (#NotAllMenAreMikeMeyers), but instead a symbol of the inhuman, all-powerful, deathless social conceit of masculine dominance.
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Taser's object-recognition conceit may be the latest attempt to rebuild community trust in law enforcement, but the realities of "computer vision" and object recognition adds dangerous new layers of surveillance opportunities.
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The conceit of After Lights Out, which Mauve created between 2013 and 2017, is that of a world without electricity—think Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, or Lower Manhattan after Superstorm Sandy.
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It's a simple conceit for a sometimes not-so-simple routine, like last night when he decided to have a little extra snack in the evening even though he wasn't supposed to.
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The conceit of the "sport" is fairly simple: two teams of three try to overload their mechs (by collecting power orbs or, more often than not, shooting and punching the opposing team).
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The conceit of artists playing target practice with their critics is time-tested and well-worn, and when considered in The 21975's case, it increasingly resembles a total work of fiction.
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If nothing else, he and his cohort have given the lie to the utopian conceit that the Internet would necessarily be a force for greater democratization and the broadening of political horizons.
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That's life," he joked of the distracting conceit to an interviewer, Henry Post, who supportively observed, "in any case, all the people in the book are supposed to be from the underground.
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But I do like that we live in a world that ... the conceit of this world is that it's only as clear as our eyes, and as a documentarian, he can guess.
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The conceit derived from a joke bylaw that actually got passed in southern France, at the time of the U.F.O. scares of the fifties, forbidding any alien to land in a vineyard.
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Selling drugs in video games isn't a particularly new conceit, from the turn-based strategy of the 1980s-originating Drugwars to the freewheeling open-world mayhem of the Grand Theft Auto series.
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But while Comme des Garçons' runway collections frequently approach clothing as a contextual conceit — Kawakubo's latest pieces don't resemble garments so much as site-specific soft sculpture — Watanabe's collections are more pragmatic.
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The conceit of this modern-day update, which easily could have been pitched along the way as Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, soon attracted a thriving cult fandom.
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The exhibition's conceit — pairing selections from Molina's Collection with works by five contemporary, mostly local artists — highlights the somewhat arbitrary value some cultural objects accrue, but not others, often along racial lines.
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He also played down what Google knows about its users, a surprising conceit for a company that makes more money than anybody from selling advertising based on the online interests of users.
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Those of us who write about people in the arena should not fall prey to the conceit that we are likewise in the arena and deserve to have our life stories written.
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As smart as the "one month in the life of [x character] conceit" is, the moment when "Hella Perspective" goes from good to great is the moment it drops that structure entirely.
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Such a conceit — a projection of a perspective from ancient Judea onto the lifestyle of a contemporary secular New York Jew — might strike some readers as tendentious or random, but it's not.
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Christie's conceit — a prosecutor inviting a mob to condemn the accused on count after count — resembled a show trial more than anything else, free of any and all protections for the defendant.
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Occasionally, the effort to commit fully to the conceit feels strained or shows its limitations, as when a grainy camera recording from a distance undercuts the intensity of a particularly dramatic confrontation.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone exploited this conceit in the 2004 naughty-puppet action epic "Team America: World Police," which nearly snagged an NC-17 rating for its hard-core puppet action.
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But the conceit of being a park ranger alone in the forest all day with no one but another park ranger on the radio for company feels particularly relevant to this moment.
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While clearly designed as a bid to build a Fast & Furious style "family" around Lowrey and Burnett (and bring in younger stars like Vanessa Hudgens and Riverdale's Charles Melton), the conceit works.
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The Gemini Man screenplay, originally written by Darren Lemke, has been kicking around Hollywood in various forms for around 20 years, waiting for the tech to catch up to its central conceit.
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Mr. Sekulow was obviously quite taken with his triple "danger" conceit, because he used it again and again, typically when he wanted to draw attention to one of the defense's core claims.
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But the show at Carnegie was less about satirizing this stereotype, and more about demonstrating it: The sketch's conceit is a showcase of all the capabilities of a hypothetical Yuja Wang clone.
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This collaboration between Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami — who wrote, directed and star together — exhibits their fairly irresistible comic chemistry, even if the conceit of the movie wears a bit thin.
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For all that the story is rooted in a speculative conceit, it demands to be read as a political fable about the ease with which reality yields to the coherence of fantasy.
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The conceit both allows him to explore the persistence of anti-Semitism in American culture and, now chillingly, the ways in which America has failed to immunize itself against demagogues and authoritarians.
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The conceit here is that if you zoom in to the faucet reflection, you can see the photographer's breasts, and if you're to believe the text on the image, that's Ocasio-Cortez.
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Stranger Things may have found the limits of its conceit, or maybe even the limits of slavish devotion to the idealized cinematic childhoods so many of us remember, but never actually lived.
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But though there are moments of brightness, the movie's a slog, with a central conceit that feels more like a sophomoric film school exercise than the work of an established writer-director.
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Producing components that are usually made elsewhere in a high tech manufacturing environment struck me as less of a way to optimize a supply chain than a conceit—a story to be told.
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I'm trying to be kind here, so I'll say that I think the Emoji Movie's core conceit — a boy learning that it's okay to experience more than one emotion — is a nice premise.
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And here's the genius of Apple's simplifying conceit: In a hero's journey to self-transcendence, the individual in all her uniqueness is its star, technology is ostensibly secondary — and so are other people.
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The ninth episode reveals the series's "Catholic House of Cards" conceit as a bait-and-switch, and looks for denouement in the form of love and peace for all its odd, conflicted characters.
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As the wheels come off the campaign, Weiner snaps at documentarian Josh Kriegman (who produced and directed with Elyse Steinberg) for violating the "fly on the wall" conceit by asking him a question.
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"I feel it was a really smart choice on Jesse Andrews' part to change the conceit because in a film you really do want to follow one character through the journey," Sucsy remarks.
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The single-location thriller conceit can often end up playing like a low-budget gimmick rather than a creative choice, but Möller uses it to create a film that feels taut and claustrophobic.
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But by purposefully adding a science element to the story, Oliver and co-writers Gregory Davis and Peter Nickowitz pointedly sidestep any interpretation that everything that happens here is just a psychological conceit.
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Transparent's central conceit is that Maura's transition—and the suppressed family secrets it unearthed—has pushed all three Pfefferman siblings to poke at their identities and question the ways they have understood themselves.
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The conceit was simple: Today's big announcement marks a step in cell phone evolution akin to the jump from the Zack Morris brick to the flip phone or the clamshell to the smartphone.
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Comparisons will surely be drawn to Serial and How to Make a Murderer when episodes of Made in America run this summer, both in their shared true crime conceit and larger thematic ambitions.
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This is the central conceit of the demo: playing some kind of spy, you must teleport through several floors of an office building after hours, sneaking through empty hallways and fighting deadly robots.
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From its slavish conceit of realism, compulsive bigness, and astounding disinterest in telling a story worth the several dozen hours it demands, Red Dead Redemption 22 fails to justify its own excessive existence.
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John Wick's introduction of a hotel exclusively for hitmen was a nifty little conceit—seeing it again in Chapter 2 and discovering this fraternity's inner workings only make the concept feel cartoon-y.
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The film's stories are based on Scheherazade's "Arabian Nights," a method A.O. Scott described as "a conceit, a plaything and a structural principle" in his December 2015 review for The New York Times.
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And the book is uneasily poised on the lip of a conceit: the street, we learn, is being described just before a climactic and terrible moment, withheld until the end of the book.
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Essential to the spell is the movie's most theatrical conceit: A script, by Alecky Blythe, gleaned entirely from interviews she conducted with the town's residents after the murders of five prostitutes in 2006.
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The "all crimes are legal for one night each year" conceit, an idea dreamed up by the totalitarian figures presiding over the United States of America (fictional ones), is central to the story.
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To that end, even though much of the novel was conceived years ago, there's something rippingly modern about its central conceit—that evolution abruptly begins to regress, and that causes society to unravel.
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I was just reading one where they're interviewing Larry David's daughter and the conceit was they were going to ride the subway, because she doesn't like to ride the subway because she's neurotic.
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Los Angeles-based artist Andy Bauch has taken this conceit to a whole new level with his latest solo exhibition, "New Money," which opens at Castelli Art Space in LA on Friday night.
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His debut, "The Debt to Pleasure," was so pleased by its Nabokovian conceit — a murderer's confession posing as a cookbook — that it settled for a series of variations on the same dark joke.
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The overarching conceit of the program is the idea of "changing landscapes," a theme wide and deep enough to essentially give the artists a blank slate with the prompt "surprise me" written below.
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" And in an early chapter, the narrator notes that a "golden story" in Roman times "was a figure of speech that denoted a tall tale, a wild conceit, something that was obviously untrue.
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We've lost two months of preparation due to our incompetent provincialism, to our false notions of exceptionalism, to our conceit that the world is large, and that Wuhan and Lombardy are far away.
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But the book doggedly follows its intriguing conceit, rendering even more poignant the scene of the czarina and her daughters busily sewing jewels into the seams of their garments, optimistic to the end.
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The horrors that Jojo applauds so enthusiastically aren't any less grievous for being refracted through his imagination If anything, that conceit underlines the cynicism of the forces that have capitalized on his naivete.
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She appeared in "The Silencers" (1966), the first of Dean Martin's Matt Helm films, and "The Spy With a Cold Nose" (1966), a British comedy built around the conceit of a bugged bulldog.
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Thus commences what connects the reboot to the original Party of Five: the compelling conceit of a group of siblings going on with their lives after their parents are taken away from them.
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The meta conceit of "My Name Is Lucy Barton," which the reader only realizes partway in, is that the novel is meant to be the actual "published" memoir of Lucy, its author-narrator.
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Gillick's conceit of tracing the contemporary across four key dates — 1820, 1948, 1963, 1974 — should probably be seen as an arbitrary organizing device to sort the more-or-less-now into distinguishable parts.
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The fatal conceit of establishment Republicans' strategy is its belief in a zero-sum relationship between the candidates that would satisfy them and the amount of support those candidates have within the GOP electorate.
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"The fatal conceit of Obamacare is that we're just going to make everybody buy our health insurance at the federal-government level," Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said in a press conference Thursday.
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That, in a nutshell, is the central conceit of Dexter, Showtime's Golden Globe-winning crime drama that somehow managed to make blood and guts funny and had viewers rooting for a meticulous serial killer.
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It's a perfectly silly conceit for a superhero movie, though I'm intrigued that horror filmmaker David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation) is directing this, so maybe it'll be darker than the trailer suggests.
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And so, a tremendous amount of whether you will enjoy Luigi's Mansion 3 is contingent on how much you enjoy its core conceit: exploring a space largely for the sake of exploring the space.
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If you've never used one of Mueller's Carrot apps, there's one core conceit to all of them: each app features an AI character named Carrot who, to put it simply, rather dramatically hates humans.
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It's a 3D motion simulator ride that lets visitors link to a Na'vi avatar, straight from the core conceit of the film, and take an aerial tour on one of the planet's wild Banshees.
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For the hardcore fans, the core conceit of the Switch — its ability to morph from one form into another — might be seen as just another gimmick in a long line of goofy Nintendo experiments.
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In his most famous essay, "Rationalism in Politics", published in 1962, he attacked the intellectual conceit that underpins all these –isms, namely the misplaced faith in "rationalism" that stemmed from the 18th-century enlightenment.
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It didn't just offer an outlandish telenovela conceit — a virgin gets artificially inseminated by accident, hijinks ensue — but leaned fully into it to find beauty in the nooks and crannies of every dramatic reveal.
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And for this one, [the conceit] is that it's the US Coast Guard attempting to de-escalate and stop the first war between the United States and China on the surface of the Moon.
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On one level, his film is an amusing exercise in sustaining a slight B-movie conceit for 90 minutes, but it has the raw performances and anguished mood of a tender-hearted parenting drama.
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High volatility in money-market rates, once a regular occurrence, has all but vanished, hence the central bank's conceit that, in a Qin-like manner, it has shaved off mountain peaks and filled valleys.
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Rather, hunger for new revenues and the inevitable central planning conceit of politicians distorts carbon pricing into just another political tax-and-spend program, this time, under the undeserved halo of saving the planet.
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Assisting Henry — or, rather, you, depending on how convincing you find the movie's central effect/conceit — is a confounding mad scientist named Jimmy (Sharlto Copley), who's both a master of disguise and seemingly unkillable.
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The central conceit of The Night Of, based on the British series Criminal Justice, is that we see this not through the jaded eyes of officers doing their jobs, but from the suspect's perspective.
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Irreverence can be a form of homage, and the thirty-four-year-old Feiffer gets cheeky with Chekhov's delicate realism, sending up his habits of exposition and repetition, along with his play's central conceit.
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While "Extra Ordinary" overextends its ghosts-are-blasé conceit, Higgins and Ward are appealing leads, and the movie has plenty of charming moments, such as Rose watching an episode of her dad for guidance.
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Monikahouse is described by its creator as "Monika's Life Size Dollhouse," a conceit announced in the front parlor by a dollhouse that captures in miniature the strange sights that one is about to encounter.
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It has bright interiors, Ikea furniture, and there's a utilitarian feel to it, but its conceit is the games found throughout — traditional board games like checkers and ludo as well as a video console.
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But that's the conceit behind "Nassim," a charming play running Off Broadway, in which a different actor each night performs, without rehearsal, a script written by Nassim Soleimanpour, an Iranian playwright living in Germany.
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In a book that skillfully combines culinary history with reports from some of the city's most tasteful arrondissements, he adopts the conceit of a historian's walking tour, conflating past with present in gorgeous style.
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Self-sufficiency is a fatal conceit: yes, the hardened silo turned luxury condos will house an operating room and a few doctors, but they depend on many other people and products to be effective.
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The signs were as loud as klaxon horns, warning us that "Like a Boss" would be a stinker: the January release date, the shoddy poster, the dubious conceit (the beauty business is, uh, ugly).
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In addition to the fact that all five of the theme entries make their debuts today, the conceit — state names plus an additional letter are anagrammed to make a new phrase — seems fairly fresh.
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Jay Sanders, Artists Space's executive director, has chosen to reopen with what you might call an anti-statement show: four artists of different generations, not linked by a curatorial conceit or even a title.
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Is that really how we get to the truth, particularly when one side — be it the Trump administration or Weinstein — have a deep understanding of that conceit, and will use it to their advantage?
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"Her book exploded the tidy conceit in which I had been schooled: that literary criticism and social politics were things apart from one another," Rebecca Mead wrote in an afterword to the new edition.
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The best example is his ongoing battle with the so-called "deep state" -- Trump's conceit that there is a coordinated effort within the federal bureaucracy (focused on the Justice Department) to undermine his presidency.
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Like all reenactment shows, this one runs into the main problem inherent to that conceit, which is that the fictionalization of historical records occasionally veers into the realm of the cheesy and/or overdramatic.
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The central conceit of Donald Trump's presidential campaign is that being an effective president is pretty easy and the United States has gotten disappointing results in the 21st century because of unfathomably incompetent leadership.
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The designer's creative site, Craft and Graft, describes the conceit behind the project as reimagining the original theatrical poster but keeping true to the movie's general concept and his company's "pop culture and minimalism" aesthetic.
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For all the justifications that Fisher was a grown man and free to see whomever he liked, the episode diminished him, casting doubt on his capability of elevating himself above the players' indulgences and conceit.
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The comic conceit of the play is a group of highly successful suffragettes helping a slightly hapless younger woman (the titular Lady Geraldine) to write an anti-suffrage speech she has accidentally promised to deliver.
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She turned a local bar into another hangout for Murphy and company, and, in the show's most sitcom-y conceit, had a philosophical house painter spend years painting Murphy's house, trying to perfect his art.
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Endgame's use of time travel is a definitive case of self-referentialism, but it's also a wonderfully comic book-y conceit, and it allows for satisfying riffs on past MCU sequences — both famous and not.
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And a future where sentient robots and humans have an uneasy truce both inside and outside a massive simulation is a foundation worth building on — if not the perfect conceit for a Matrix theme park.
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That was the conceit behind Dr. Strangelove, the film that offered characters like Strangelove, the German-émigré nuclear "mad scientist," and Jack D. Ripper, the insane general with a killer's name, as models of madness.
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The show, improbably sustained for 160 episodes on the basic conceit of "a group of friends is terrorized by text messages from an anonymous villain," is premiering the second half of its final season tonight.
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The horror of the double is a classic conceit — read Freud's essay "The Uncanny," which was published nearly 100 years ago, for some fascinating context — but the cam girl angle offers a fun modern twist.
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The conceit of [Beran's] book is that these kids were raised fully aware that their prospects were dim culturally, that they didn't have a place, that the American Dream was garbage and consumerism was garbage.
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Pocket Camp flips the script on this conceit, turning your character into a transient who lives out of a van in the woods, a grim vision of what awaits less affluent renters in gentrifying neighborhoods.
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Even the conceit of the series, a woman needs to accept a strings-attached offer from her wealthy, judgmental parents after life throws her a curveball, is pulled straight out of the Gilmore Girls playbook.
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The video's main conceit focuses on "eternal life"—quite a large narrative to set in motion, take it that the majority of the video features the movement of slim metallic rings, constantly curving and rotating.
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Its conceit is keyed to the notion that pretty much every company is a software company in some fashion, in that each has its own custom processes that could be improved or automated with software.
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Guardians recognizes the improbability of its conceit (a team of space misfits fighting other space misfits), and uses music to bolster that absurdity — instead of deploying a score that tries to take everything very seriously.
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The Starfleet Academy Experience conceit is that Star Trek – all 50 years of it – is real and you are attending career day at the Academy, which in Star Trek lore is located in San Francisco.
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Take, for example, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, where the conceit of dubbing comedic commentary over a retro Japanese obstacle course show was genius enough for most people to ignore some of its more problematic jokes.
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But when she lands, unceremoniously spraining her ankle, her face distorts into pure pain and rage, and the conceit of Aggretsuko's twist on the conventions established by Hello Kitty and the like comes into focus.
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He also savaged the media, despite their reports of the serious medical and humanitarian situation in Puerto Rico, setting up the familiar conceit for his supporters that criticism of him is simply a media invention.
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But more concretely, to "trust black women," when there are no institutions that will stand strong behind a black woman when she is held to the fire, means that this "trust" is a hollow conceit.
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The CW audience skews young enough that some viewers may need to pause at the first commercial break to Google "ham radio," but it's a sweet little conceit worthy of one of Mr. King's novels.
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Its conceit was ludicrous, but in a way that allowed for maximum entertainment: A time-travel experiment gone awry forces the handsome Dr. Sam Beckett to "leap" among different bodies at various points in history.
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Divided into five parts, The Eyes of Orson Welles begins with a documentarian's conceit of sorts: the discovery of a box of drawings and sketches by Welles, who began painting as a nine-year-old.
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He had been suggesting for weeks that Clinton was not in good health, a conceit stoked by a Greek chorus on the internet and a few well-placed "medical experts" on cable (paging Dr. Giuliani).
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For Caravaggio, chiaroscuro — the contrast of light and dark — was principally a painterly conceit, a means of bringing drama to altarpieces like "The Calling of St. Matthew" (1599-1600) or "Seven Acts of Mercy" (1607).
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Perhaps this is the true fiber woven into Phantom Thread: an invisible line that stretches from our ancestors to our children's children—a deeply Anderson-ian conceit—that goes beyond the constraints of the corporeal.
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With her "conceit" of Hill House, whether pretty be the word for it or not, Shirley Jackson proves again that she is the finest master currently practicing in the genre of the cryptic, haunted tale.
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Sure, Kenny might have had to politely explain the show's conceit to family and friends after Kelly said "I don't" at the altar in the finale, but he's never been a loser for a minute.
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There is not really an experience to be had with this piece, for reasons having nothing to do with representation or abstraction: it is a facile conceptual maneuver that disappears right after the conceit registers.
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"Stealing Beauty" doesn't sidestep the icky pitfalls of that conceit, especially once a dying playwright (Jeremy Irons) finds out and spills the beans to a community of mostly middle-aged artists, who obsess over it.
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Borrowing a conceit used by George Will in a book about baseball, Wahl's offering, "Masters of Modern Soccer," probes how five players, a manager and a technical director think about their positions, and their responsibilities.
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The conceit of writing directly into one's own life is a way of dividing the self, and among the mysteries this novel explores is how it is possible to be in two places at once.
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The captivating new video "Sanook Dee Museum" — or "Fun Museum" — revisits an earlier conceit of Ms. Araya's: showing copies of renowned Western artworks to Thai villagers, who judge and appreciate them on their own terms.
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The time-travel conceit adds a fresh twist to what would otherwise be a very familiar rom-com setup, while the genuine romance brings new juice to what would otherwise be a Groundhog Day redux.
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Written by Kevin Del Aguila and Brad Alexander, the musical uses the same conceit as each of the novels in the series: that it is really the creation of a pair of fifth-grade boys.
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Its original conceit was to offer an asset-light solution to hailing taxis: Uber provides a handy GPS and payments application, drivers bear all the costs and liabilities of transportation, and Uber takes a fee.
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Depending on the medium, that can be a new narrative conceit that challenges the protagonist's growth from the original story, or it could be new gameplay systems that alter how the player experiences the game.
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There's a fair amount of authorial winking and seat-of-the-pants science going on here, but never mind; El Akkad is far less concerned with the mechanics of his conceit than its psychological underpinnings.
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What you make of an ending that casts what has come before in an entirely fresh light may depend on your ability to justify a tricksy dramatic conceit that, in my view, doesn't pay off.
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Saunders is known for his gleamingly sharp satire, and while his distinctive voice and sense of humor is very evident in this book, "save the innocent child's soul" might feel like an uncharacteristically sentimental conceit.
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Gilligan trusted both his writers' room and his overall conceit for the show — a meek family man becomes a ruthless drug kingpin — to hold everything together while all involved worked toward finding the best story.
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Set in 2074, the show's conceit is that the world has been taken over by multinational corporations, amid a climate crisis that has starkly separated the haves from have-nots and brought governments to their knees.
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The "punk kid from the cobblestone streets is over his head in a big adventure" conceit fits naturally into Guy Ritchie's aesthetic, which is frequently about ultra-competent but overmatched men stumbling through an immense crisis.
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The reboot follows a similar conceit to the original, in that an American family is selected to travel as space colonists, and when the mission goes awry, the Robinsons are — you guessed it — lost in space.
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On the surface, The Perfection emulates many other horror films that claim feminist cred: It uses its basic conceit — in this case, competition — as a gateway to exploring how women are victimized by a patriarchal society.
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I haven't seen the earlier films, but it looks like Pitch Perfect 3 takes the a cappella conceit that's worked so well and then cranks up the ridiculousness of the plot around it to new levels.
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Erlich griped about director David Ayers' refusal to fill in the movie's mythological conceit, and explore how the nine different races of sentient species live together in Los Angeles, and complained about the low production quality.
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Other flourishes soil the minimalist glory of The Bad News Bears; the brilliant, batshit conceit of a classical music soundtrack is abandoned, and a strip club sponsors the Bears instead of the wholesome Chico's Bail Bonds.
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The moment when the ski jump literally reveals itself on a (very fake) Winter Olympics poster is hilarious, although the conceit that ski jumping is a lot like screwing Bo Derek is a lot less so.
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Mike — let's drop the conceit that I'm writing dispassionately about this, because Mike and I used to work together and we're still friends — has done excellent work covering the Uber story for the past few years.
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Still, the self-titled album was widely considered to be a breakthrough, a consummation of sensibility and talent, a fulfillment of the St. Vincent conceit—this somewhat severe performer who was both her and not her.
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Worth, a former correspondent for The New York Times, employs the familiar journalistic conceit of telling the history of the Arab Spring by presenting the stories of different individuals whose lives became caught up in it.
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The first season of Westworld was a fascinating puzzle box, with a storytelling conceit and twist that was so brain-bleedingly complex it was hard to know what the series could possibly do for season two.
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When the next recession hits, the United States will face the very painful consequences of having bought into the conceit that the Federal Reserve could do a better job than market forces in setting interest rates.
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Yet in a time of national crisis, and as Trump's words resonate around the world, that conceit seems a dangerous one, that could lead the President and the rest of the world into misunderstandings and escalation.
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As Haynes wrote in the introduction to his screenplays, the question he was trying to answer through this radically artificial conceit was: What would happen "if the narrative gears subsumed by our identification were quietly revealed"?
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This unsavory character inspires his new memoir's title and its central conceit of a man keeping up appearances on the center stage known as life, performances humming along briskly even as chaos descends behind the scenes.
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The conceit is also animating Billy Crudup, who after a four-year absence from the New York stage appears to be having the time of his life in a sly role terrifically suited to his gifts.
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That was the original conceit behind the failed Chivas USA experiment — to create a team with a Mexican identity to attract Mexican fans — but the target audience dismissed it, and Galaxy fans already had a team.
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The 2014 album "O Baby Mine: Sing a Song of Shakespeare" used the canon as inspiration for pop tunes for the young, sometimes incorporating a bit of the poetry and sometimes just a theme or conceit.
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Playing with a conceit borrowed from theoretical physics — the hotly contested "multiverse" hypothesis — "Spider-Verse" proposes a multiplicity of web-slingers from different dimensions, all of whom converge thanks to disruption in the space-time continuum.
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Its minimal characters weren't exceptionally interesting; the conceit, of an energy company mining hell itself for power, is both too on-the-nose and, somehow, in the era of climate change, not on-the-nose enough.
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This is speaking directly to celebratory drinks, coffee dates and random parties that can tug on our conscience with obligation and guilt, but are founded on the conceit that they're leisurely, entirely pleasurable and optional activities.
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The central conceit of this laptop is that there really is a demand for a high-end Chromebook, and while that may be truer in 903 than it was in 2017, it's not a sure thing.
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The result is an energizing conceit: Darbyshire, who acknowledges responsibility for running the coup—and who calmly admits to having had Mossadegh's chief of police killed—is animated by Fiennes's flinty glamour and peerless dramatic chops.
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Lee is right that we're in the thick of eugenics almost the moment we acquiesce to the implausible conceit of fixed Intelligenzquotient, as the phantom human quality was originally dubbed in Germany in the early 1900s.
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But for the conceit to hold requires writing that seems in some way connected to real life in ways that calling someone "as sexy as diarrhea," at least to this none-too-cosseted ear, do not.
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The film's first brush with backlash grew as some critics accused it of advancing the "white savior" conceit -- a charge that Farrelly rejected in defending the movie, telling Vanity Fair that the two helped each other.
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And Trump has often played into the powerful gun lobby group's conceit that any reform of gun laws is a slippery slope that will inevitably lead to the total withdrawal of the right to bear arms.
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But if you can table that question for an hour and a half and just watch the movie, what you'll find is this: The grocery store as cultural tableau is actually an effective, maybe even genius conceit.
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But A.Human's far-future utopianism doesn't fit with the conceit that A. Huxley (named after Aldous Huxley, author of dystopian novel Brave New World) is a real designer in a "five minutes into the future" fashion industry.
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While this conceit lends itself to satire and witty moments, the overarching theme is that each individual is paralyzed by fear: At any moment, an accusation can take hold and their devotion to the Party is questioned.
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Christie chose the show trial metaphor not because he thought it was the best conceit for filleting Clinton's policy record, but to inspire the crowd, primed by 24 hours of bloody-shirt waving, to take up pitchforks.
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That's the underlying conceit in Amazon's "I Love Dick," an adaptation of Chris Kraus's 20-year-old memoir that revels in its off-kilter tone, and derives most of its strength from its trio of central performances.
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The metafictional conceit of the aliens not recognizing the world's best basketball player because he's paying baseball is clever; a 500-page magical realist novel on the topic would be the preferred manifestation of that tale, though.
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Don't get me started on how Strange made his mystical time-rewinding gestures after he was flattened, flamed, or pincushioned, but the general conceit that time is a baffling burden for an immortal creature is just brilliant.
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It's worth noting that both of the characters appear to have lives, and relationships, beyond the central pairing, which of course won't prevent the flirty banter and "Will they or won't they?" conceit baked into the premise.
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It's one of the weirdest and most unexpected things in Heat: It takes the conceit from the Forza Horizon series (a racing festival has taken over the region), and then adds a corrupt and violent police department.
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But constructing Mr. Harrison merely as a rough-and-ready man of appetite — a perennial conceit of profile writers, and one he did relatively little to dispel — ignores the deep intellectualism of the writer and his work.
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This year, awarding the prize to Bob Dylan shatters the conceit that songwriters are not writers and that song lyrics are not literature, and honors lyrics as a literary art as important and worthy as any other.
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The new show might look a little more polished — "because if they're offering more money," Baker said, "we'll probably just wanna spend more of it" — but the conceit and execution will more or less remain the same.
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I feel sympathy for both Parreno and Terpstra and their obsession with Kennedy's funeral train, but somehow, neither of their works feel like more than a conceptual conceit without a payoff, especially when juxtaposed with Fusco's photographs.
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That the characters' interviews control the tone and speed of the story — that they're allowed to talk about what seems significant to them — gives the story a jolt of realism, even though the conceit is obviously artificial.
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The conceit of this piece of documentary theater is that each person onstage belongs to a group that is marginalized in the culture — because of skin color or place of origin, sexual orientation or gender or poverty.
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Using the conceit of liberal elites exacting revenge on know-nothing "deplorables," the filmmakers heap plenty of smug, self-amused scorn on both sides, but there's no doubt who the hero is once the tables are turned.
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Inverting a dominant literary conceit, blackness and not whiteness functioned as a metaphor for hope and transcendence — a "Night coming tenderly/Black like me," as Mr. Hughes wrote, that abetted the struggle for racial equality and justice.
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If you grew up watching various anime series on Cartoon Network, you might well be used to the over-the-top conceit of voice acting, and you might even resent people who imply that dubbing is inferior.
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The conceit seems to be that Michonne is the wind beneath his wings: She got him up off the floor in the midseason finale, whispered encouragement last week and coached him through the Winslow fight on Sunday.
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Like many of his academically trained peers, his compositions are obstacle courses, often driven by a conceptual conceit — but they also feel more directly affecting, more melodic, more subtly bound to tradition than most improvised music today.
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"Jungle" played with the age-old kids-in-the-bodies-of-grown-ups conceit, but "The Next Level" switches things up by assigning DeVito's Eddie to Johnson's avatar, and Glover's Milo to Hart's diminutive zoologist, Mouse Finbar.
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What made it stand out from contemporaries like Goosebumps was the conceit of the Midnight Society itself, with kids presenting spooky tales they made up themselves each week around a campfire for the approval of their peers.
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Patchett's novel aspires to the atmosphere of Latin-American magical realism, but its central conceit, of a celestial voice that soothes savage breasts, is a feeble one, and her vague musical descriptions fail to flesh it out.
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This is Sikoryak's conceit at its best: subtly integrating Apple brandings elements into the visuals, as he also does in the Green Lantern spread, where the superhero's signature ring is emblazoned with the iTunes music note icon.
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