How widely such conceits are believed is hard to tell.
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At times, these fantastical conceits are more confusing than compelling.
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Both stories are formally inventive, almost overformalized in their strict conceits.
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It's putting an extra premium on viral moments and supersize conceits.
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No matter how foolish his conceits, his eye never betrayed him.
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And he has learned how to dress those skills in clever conceits.
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You could call the conceits Kafkaesque, if Gogol weren't the better writer.
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Does the introduction of these new tropes / styles / narrative conceits make things worse?
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The two versions of Charmed share similar conceits: Three sisters discover that they're witches.
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I hesitate to unpack too much from his grab bag of gags and conceits.
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His holiday album, "Socks," is a collection of original songs with startlingly original conceits.
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The market is suddenly so crowded, new entrants are arriving with increasingly knotty conceits.
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But they are conceits that grow organically out of how these characters see and speak.
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Robinson's sketches stay fully committed to their core conceits, following them to outrageously weird places.
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I loved the zaniness, the silly gags, the outrageous conceits and, later, Groucho's double entendres.
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Together, Whitney and Noah pick away at two of the core conceits of the show.
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No exceptions to the cycles of history: All empires have succumbed to such narcissistic conceits.
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The show represents curatorial practice at its worst, and Hoffmann's flawed conceits here are many.
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Maclean's great strength is her recognition that unsubtle conceits can carry rich artistic and political potential.
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There are few, if any, conceits, it's as basic a black box as you can imagine.
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Small mechanical conceits go a long way to convey the havoc and physical hardship of war.
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But that album is just one example of many unique conceits they've adopted throughout their career.
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She's known for her roving, unpredictable imagination, and for the dazzling ingenuity of her narrative conceits.
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It's an antidote to the reigning conceits, self-deceptions, half-truths and clichés of our day.
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Daemons, of course, are one of the central conceits of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
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But the movie comes across as a rush of bouncy one-liners and arch formal conceits.
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And then there's the popularity of meta story structures — narrative conceits that help to frame the tale.
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This is the first of the film's two conceits which pull it away from the original text.
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The first half of The Lobster makes a drily amusing if slightly rote procession through its governing conceits.
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That the locals prove to be as crafty as Marty is one of the conceits of the program.
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But these conceits, like so much of the film's details, get lost in the exhausting race against, um, Time.
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But we may not be as far from such poetic conceits of the body as we like to believe.
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The exhibition considers the materiality of human presence through conceptually crisp conceits, which manifest in an exuberant visual idiom.
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She also makes affirmational videos that she posts on her online channel, which is one of this movie's shrewdest conceits.
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Indeed, these fundamental conceits are at the root of several persistent myths about Egypt that have distorted U.S. policy for years.
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One of the film's major conceits is that our heroes can't tell the difference between insurgents, cops, friendlies, and suicide bombers.
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Even though in its own quiet way it both anticipated and surpassed the metafictional conceits of recent critical darlings like Community.
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I can see the paragraphs I'm writing as little jail cells, penning me into perspectives, conceits, ideas, jokes, and memories—stories!
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Occasionally, Machado's genre-bending conceits overreach, but her use of a vivid experimental lens to show women struggling for agency is startling.
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A tap of the silvery wings revealed a secret watch, one of the timepiece conceits in vogue in the 1940s and 1950s.
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" Sarah Wildman at Vox noted that the speech "often resorted to rhetorical conceits typically used by the European and American alt-right.
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Most disturbing, in both places, the alt-rightists were enabled by the conceits, follies and collusion of impeccably mainstream individuals and institutions.
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Perhaps it was because of the religiosity of the Byzantines, who fought for the glory of God rather than any vainglorious conceits.
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As for those sporty stilettos, brace yourself for the possible redux of one of the more contentious footwear conceits of the past decade...
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It contains assets that will be used in the final game, as well as characters and conceits, but is otherwise entirely self contained.
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None of the impressionistic muddle of rock lyrics for them; their subjects, scenarios and verbal conceits are as clear and legible as limericks.
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This satirical letter from a father (on limited time) to his son (a future superhero) pokes delightful fun at many comic book conceits.
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If, that is, politically motivated shootings and bombings in big cities were fantastical tropes or metaphorical conceits, like zombie epidemics or extraterrestrial invasions.
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As Dennis Harvey from Variety wrote, "A witless script wrings few laughs from its retread conceits, but it too often doesn't even try."
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It lasts maybe ten minutes and just keeps pouring out new episodes, new conceits, new ideas about this music and these charming, silly people.
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For Trump, the upside is the substitution of a liberal order with an illiberal one, based on conceits about sovereignty, nationality, religion and ethnicity.
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Somewhat of a cultural magpie, Mr. Allen has often folded bits and pieces — and at times entire conceits — from other work into his movies.
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That's largely due to the gorgeous, painstaking animation, but it's also because anime doesn't shy from extending imaginative conceits or plot elements into weirdness.
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One of the core conceits of Labo is that it encourages a curiosity for how things function, and this remains true with the new collection.
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Le Guin has always been fascinated by the subversive possibility of imaginative writing, and the central conceits of her two best-known series explore it.
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"Their abilities to demonstrate the tensions, the torments and the shabby conceits of the miserable criminals give disturbing dimensions to their roles," Mr. Crowther wrote.
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"Under the Silver Lake" is less a cinematic folly than a category mistake, taking the sterility of its own imaginative conceits for a metaphysical condition.
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Mostly, they are just vaguely sketched conceits — jaded, corrupt, yammering — who look good in suits, smack around generic villains and make nice with the ladies.
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Rush's music altered through the decades — embracing synthesizers and electronics, reclaiming power-trio muscle — but never shied away from musical challenges or grand verbal conceits.
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"The Lobster" is often startlingly funny in the way it proposes its surreal conceits, and then upsettingly grim in the way it follows through on them.
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Mr. Greenberg's program, which opened the festival, offered two works commissioned for the occasion, both with heady intellectual conceits but relatively little to move the soul.
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In other words, even when Black Mirror is moralistic about its fictional conceits, it can't help but find glee in them — often at its own expense.
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It's a schizophrenic jumble of ideas, full of half-formed gameplay conceits and aesthetic influences that range from proletarian Soviet art to Terry Gilliam to Godzilla movies.
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It's most breathtaking settings and conceits were for cutscenes and "look, don't touch" sequences in which you explored your way from one combat area to the next.
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But the conceits that work on the page — like Louis' breathless, stream-of-consciousness narration, or his deep-voiced imaginary friend — are jarring and mannered on-screen.
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For all his supposed deviations from GOP orthodoxy, Trump has unquestionably absorbed the language and conceits underpinning conservative opposition strategy—if not the finer points of it.
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As Carl Sagan said, 'To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
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The problem is that the show is much more concerned with the conceits explored in these dream sequences than creating anything that the viewer might actually connect with.
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But even though the third season has been streamlined, "Westworld" is still "Westworld," and there are some major conceits and characters from Seasons 2 that are worth remembering.
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Some of the conceits, such as a mystical theory that Annette's soul will remain near the house for 11 months, or the gloomy score, seem precious or overwrought.
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Streaming on Crunchyroll and Funimation Some anime series start off with such strange conceits that they either completely put the audience off or become utterly captivating to understand.
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The spare, subtle use of video to illuminate certain entries in this "Book of Days" also tended to work much better than most new-music-meets-multimedia conceits.
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Galperin told a recent cybersecurity forum in San Francisco that a belief one can stay anonymous on the internet is "one of the core conceits" of our age.
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There's a freshly relevant, Get Out-level social satire lurking somewhere in the movie's core conceits, but what actually made it to the screen feels much cheaper and easier.
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In fact, by and large, they're just neutered props, designed to give texture to a game's universe, or to justify long-simmering gameplay conceits to a more sophisticated audience.
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The action is gorgeously fluid, the idiosyncratic 3-D visual conceits (including floating eyeballs undersea) are startling, and the story and its metaphors resolve in unexpected and moving ways.
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And in one of the play's nicer conceits, Johnson's difficulty in corralling the impatient King is neatly paralleled with King's difficulty in corralling the impatient Stokely Carmichael (Marchánt Davis).
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In this moment, when fried chicken and shrimp and grits have become national folk dishes, talk of Southern food too often relies on comfort food simplicities or antebellum conceits.
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SCOTT: And one of the most hackneyed conceits in all of movies — the family holiday from hell — becomes the freshest, scariest, most electrifying domestic nightmare anyone has ever shot.
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Many liberals do not believe that evangelical Christianity ought to guide public life; many believe, moreover, that the moral conceits of that Christianity are wrong, even harmful to society.
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The show's espionage plots are full of conceits about twins and time travel that hint at Van Damme's movies and that allow him to play multiple versions of himself simultaneously.
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And this is why Oakeshott's thinking should be urgently re-read by both British Tories and American Republicans before they are irretrievably consumed by precisely those conceits that Oakeshott decried.
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ER: Like kabuki theater, or maybe not at all like kabuki theater, the conceits have shifted in order to better conceal what was a fairly coherent lyrical and thematic obsession.
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There are maps and there are bodies and there is the overarching buzzword "mapping" that would seem to almost bridge the gap between the two major conceits of the work.
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Occasionally, the contours of a conventional coming-of-age story are visible through the haze, making Ms. Decker's techniques seem as willful and contrived as some of Evangeline's theatrical conceits.
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But this is the worst of the conceits, because Amazon is not a member state of the U.N. (yet), and in these forums, companies participate at the pleasure of governments.
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One of its more elaborate conceits is that time can be "broken" — how, exactly, it never really says — and that a consequence of breaking time is that time itself will cease.
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But this slight cultural change is one component of a larger European project that has required giving up, even if only by degrees, core conceits of a fully sovereign nation-state.
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Mike Judge: No, I mean, one of the conceits that we've always played with is the personalities, and so, I think we draw on a lot of this sort of business stuff.
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Using his 2013 micro-movie as a jumping-off point, the Swedish director David F. Sandberg extracts maximum frights from the simplest of conceits: Diana materializes in darkness and vanishes in light.
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After all, the two work together (one of the most ridiculous conceits of the whole series, but one it has somehow earned over time), and there's an unspoken sexual tension between them.
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"This genre now is something where some of the most complicated storytelling is happening, some of the biggest conceits, some of the biggest ideas, so that's where I want to be," he said.
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The GOP could no longer pretend any real principle was at stake, and the Democrats, by filibustering Gorsuch, can now kill these disingenuous conceits that have defined Supreme Court battles for too long.
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On this level, the show is half-baked and inconsistent: we've got a sad man and a badass woman, but they never feel like more than conceits, pre-stocked with conflict and resolution.
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Adapting "The Laughing Matter," a 1953 novel by William Saroyan, Mr. Zvyagintsev has untethered the story from place (California in the book) and time, but the psychological conceits are in some ways dated.
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Nevertheless, Jay Wright, in his most recent collection, The Prime Anniversary, dispenses with common sense and conceits, imagining a post-late poetics, enthralled with the notion of carrying on beyond all reasonable bounds.
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Science is only gonna suffer for it, but it's also very advantageous to the methods of control that we abandon these 19th and 20th century conceits about the Human, Poetry, and the Word.
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The film is fun, surprising and often subversive, even if it sometimes struggles to mix the seriousness of its stakes with the cosmic nonsense of its conceits, and the Avengers' plan to solve it.
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If this scholar writes densely, he also has a kangaroo capacity for crossing huge distances at a bound, moving with equal zest and confidence among biblical, classical, medieval, Enlightenment and Hollywood figures and conceits.
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But by playing around with its central storytelling conceits like this, You're the Worst both opens up and sets itself up for a season-long story in a way season three just couldn't manage.
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Enjoyment turns out to be contagious in "Girls Trip," which consistently manages to rework and even reinvigorate some severely worn-out conceits, setups and character types, mostly by complicating gender roles with class issues.
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One of the great conceits of conservative punditry over the past 15 years has been the notion that American politics is dominated by affluent liberal snobs who disdain white working-class America and its communities.
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Mr. Macron also aspires to be a postmodern president, the self-appointed harbinger of France's future, yet his tone and language alternates between elevated intellectual conceits and provocative street talk, sometimes sounding scornful, even patronizing.
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It requires a lot of stereotypes about small towns and the prejudices that abound in them, and "The Mist" (which was created by Christian Torpe) doesn't seem as if it intends to freshen those conceits.
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Given Dorfman's Latin American heritage, a critic might lazily excuse these conceits as features of magic realism, but "Darwin's Ghosts," with its materialist explanations and its prosaic writing, is hardly more than pedestrian science fiction.
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The lyrics can be playful, as when Kathryn Hahn's Rabbi Raquel gets a sultry solo about "this specifically Jewish emotional form of A.D.H.D." They can also be, in their labored conceits and rhymes, downright painful.
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Most impressive, though, is that "Grace" doesn't flog the threadbare conceits of fantasies set in a vaguely medieval Europe — you know, dragons, trolls, elves — but instead bracingly delves into the myths and history of Asia.
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Levels all take place in people's minds, and the ways in which Double Fine plays with pop psychology conceits (like "mental baggage") and actual, serious concepts like processing traumatic events is the core of the experience.
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The movie even addresses the temptation of falling only for these conceits of love, in the way Lara Jean closes her heart to the realities of commitment by replacing it with John Hughes movies and romance novels.
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What's more, I can read the population projections for Europe versus the Middle East and Africa, which make ideas like "managed migration" and "careful cultural exchange" seem like pretty conceits that 21st-century realities will eventually explode.
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Some of the conceits across the book feel so similar, you'd expect it to drag, but every lie reveals itself so exquisitely that the parallels become an added pleasure, as soon as we uncover the ways they diverge.
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After all, there's weird, and then there's Talking Heads Weird, all art school conceits and deconstructed melodies; meanwhile, I was still wrapping my head around Radiohead (whose name, by the way, is taken from a Talking Heads song).
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It's one of the most well-worn romantic conceits out there, in which circumstances conspire to lead two people to pretend to be in a relationship together, only to inevitably fall in love during the course of their subterfuge.
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In Hirato's "Manifesto of the Japanese Futurist Movement," which he passed out in printed form in various Tokyo parks, we can hear Marinetti's voice whipped up in the Japanese poet's own conceits: We rise within powerful light and heat.
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Mark came up with the cool conceits way before I was brought on board, and when I read the script about the Water Buffaloes being veterans, it was one of those ideas that's obvious once somebody's thought of it.
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This morning in Warsaw, Poland, President Donald Trump issued a battle cry — for "family, for freedom, for country, and for God" — in a speech that often resorted to rhetorical conceits typically used by the European and American alt-right.
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Just as stage plays once opened with explanatory prologues and early novels were told through letters, these conceits provide listeners with a familiar format that helps warm them up to the somewhat alien idea of fiction through their headphones.
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These are the same conceits that Vladimir Putin has long made his own, which helps explain Trump's affinity for his Russian counterpart and his distress that Robert Mueller's investigation "really hurts our relationship with Russia," as he remarked Friday.
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One of the many fatal conceits of Obamacare is that a health-care system serving more than 300 million people spread across 50 diverse states can be micromanaged from a small group of rule writers and regulators in the nation's capital.
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Media fact checks and accounts of the President's serial dishonesty and shattered governing conventions merely play into his demagogic conceits that Washington elites are not just unfair to him -- but also don't understand his appeal in the "real" heartland America.
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According to press materials, the two sides of the record—each of which consists of a single piece—are themed around day and night, but even those thematic conceits dont really seem to limit what Stallones, Jacobson, and Leland do in practice.
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With Lifetime's upcoming thriller You, inspired by Caroline Kepnes' 2014 book of the same name, Joe takes the New York City rom-com conceits we've come to love and corrupts them with strains of obsession, disturbingly easy to accomplish cyber stalking, and violence.
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Years before the use of LSD became widespread, Farmer conjured the most psychedelic of sci-fi conceits: Once every seven years, a planet orbiting a distant sun is inundated in a mysterious radiation that causes the fabric of reality to morph and distort.
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Also like Borges, and unlike Warhol, Pnini plays with artistic conceits that tend toward the fantastic and the surreal, such as his three-minute-long Volcano Demo (2008), which portrays a roof-wide volcano sculpture erupting atop a residential building in Tel Aviv.
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One of the show's conceits involves opening with a glimpse of what will happen when the crash comes, leading into each episode by flashing a chyron on the screen that suggests the show is going to count down to that big moment.
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He is perhaps most associated with absurdist conceits (in addition to his enduring collaboration with Buñuel, he also appeared as an actor in Abbas Kiarostami's "Certified Copy"), but his astonishing range is revealed in this retrospective, which covers more than 20312 years.
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According to press materials, the two sides of the record—each of which consists of a single piece—are themed around day and night, but even those thematic conceits dont really seem to limit what Cameron Stallones, Tomo Jacobson, and Jon Leland do in practice.
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And in a world where games try to suck players into an endless loop to squeeze every last dollar and minute of attention out of them, that kind of focus — even if it's not the most original of conceits — feels like it might be enough.
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As conceits go, it's a little bit too precious, detouring into issues that surround the mistreatment of those farmers by large corporate interests (or "Big Chicken," as they're called), which takes the film off on what feels like a tangent relative to its central point.
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It has to give us our first impression of our heroine, introduce us to the decision she makes that will drive the entire plot, and set the stage for the show's quirky musical conceits, all while serving up an entertaining pastiche of the classic movie-musical showstopper.
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The conceits of Wolkoff's two previous series — Birds (2012), silhouettes of taxidermied birds collected by early 20th-century naturalist Elizabeth Dickens; and Deer Beds (2013), matted impressions in tall, reedy grass made by sleeping deer's bodies — both enhanced her adroit camera work through their poetic specificity.
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It is one of the conceits of Eileen Myles's winning new memoir that it was not merely inspired by her deceased pit bull Rosie — memorably described as "a masculine girl, British like an old upper-class dyke" — but that she also had a paw in writing it.
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The conceits of Superflat — the art movement of which Murakami conceived that refers not only to formal aspects of Japanese art but also rejects hierarchical divisions of artistic genres or periods — clearly influenced his collecting habits as much as his own formal approach to art-making.
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In addition to its copious biographical details — Bois consulted regularly with Kelly — the catalogue offers reproductions of rarely seen student works — extensive drawings and studies along with somber portraits and moody landscapes enlivened with European avant-garde conceits; Paul Gauguin and Max Beckmann are named as foundational influences.
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"Love Island" arrives as programs with similar conceits have essentially started recycling, from Fox's "Paradise Hotel," to USA reviving one-time Fox sensation "Temptation Island" -- a show built around whether committed couples can survive when having a menu of available singles to help rub suntan lotion on their backs.
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China Miéville's The City and the City has one of the strangest conceits I've ever come across in a detective fiction: a city split between two distinct cultural and ethnic groups, located somewhere in Nonspecific Eastern Europe, is formally divided not on geographic lines but along phenomenological lines.
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One of the more clever conceits is how it plays with the central conundrum of Pixar films: How do you connect all these animals or toys or robots or whatever—beings that, to humans, have no emotions or thoughts or even faces—to the human world that they walk around in?
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But one of the movie's most fun conceits comes because Bumblebee's deactivated voice box means he can only communicate by scanning the radio dial built into his middle (he is a car, after all) and playing bits of songs from the 1980s whose lyrics express what he's trying to say.
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These clusters of works give the impression not of a progressive exploration of narrowly circumscribed conceits, but of a compulsive return to an established pattern, a need to do the same thing over and over again, a fixation that feels more Adolf Wölfli than Sol LeWitt, but no less compelling for its repetitiveness.
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The script, by Reeves and Mark Bomback, comes up with a pair of finely matched conceits: first, that people might get sick and lose their gifts of speech and higher reasoning; and, second, conversely, that a chimp raised in a zoo (Steve Zahn) might only talk, forgetting how to howl or to hoot.
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And evangelicals have their particular version of these Trump-the-indispensable conceits, from the analogies to King David (who slept around a lot, too, didn't he?) to the widespread belief that Trump's repeated against-the-odds victories mean that Providence somehow chose him for this role — and whom God has elevated, let no man impeach.
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Tommy's life doesn't go the way he planned, and one of the film's better conceits is the way director Jim Mickle (We Are What We Are) and writers Gregory Weidman and Geoffrey Tock let the audience fill in the gaps between segments for themselves, drawing their own conclusions about the tragedies of Tommy's life.
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Metallurgical coal is less polluting, she says, and barring American thermal coal could free up more port space for it, perhaps even creating mining jobs in BC. One of the central conceits of Trump's presidential campaign was that all shortcomings of US public policy stemmed from the fact that the country's previous political leaders were either stupid or corrupt.
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This game has been particularly interesting to critics because of the ways that it plays with ambiguity about what is real and what is imaginary, something that is arguably well-suited to gaming, a medium that requires that we suspend disbelief and accept conceits that can seem absurd to people who are not familiar with the form.
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Rotten Tomatoes rating: 20%Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick, Matt Lucas"Polar is pure trash, but the generousness — and, in the final stretch, the poignancy — with which Mikkelsen approaches even the most lurid of the film's conceits at least pushes it toward the top of the garbage heap," wrote Keith Uhlich for The Hollywood Reporter.
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Rather than the re-examination of a conviction (like "Making a Murderer" and the first season of "Serial") or the profiling and seduction of a suspect ("The Jinx"), "Killing Fields" is a more ordinary television exercise — the reopening of a cold case, specifically a 19-year-old unsolved murder in Iberville Parish, La. To set itself apart, it's adopted two conceits.
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My Ogre Book alludes to card games and chess, but these references fit with the hothouse artificiality of the book's figures and conceits; in Midnight Broodthaers collages sound-words ("Tic Tac Tic Tac Tic") and strings of spelled-out numbers into his poems, so that the page not only records the poetic utterance but becomes a visual field to be worked upon, played with.
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Everything irritating about her creative writing technique — her gimmicky conceits, her artful turns of phrase ("You can come over/but you can't come in"), her characters that stand for big concepts, the way she explains the moral of the story at the end — turns powerful given that she's dealing with archetypes rather than isolated narrative, and given that the archetypes in each song reinforce each other.
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There are a number of movies that take similar conceits to Groundhog Day's: In 2014's Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise's character gets sent back in a loop every time he dies in battle; in Netflix's ARQ from last year, an engineer invents a machine that causes a time loop; and then there's the upcoming YA book adaptation Before I Fall, where a teenager repeatedly relives the day she dies.
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The idea that if Mike Pence really listened to "Hamilton" he would stand up to Donald Trump … that Barack Obama's humanistic reading list was somehow in deep tension with his drone strikes … that had George W. Bush only discovered his talent for painting earlier he might not have invaded Iraq … these are conceits that can be rebutted (with Wagner or Céline or Nazis-at-the-symphony references) but always seem to rise again.
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The idea that large parts of our mental life remain obscure or even entirely mysterious to us; that we benefit from attending to the influence of these depths upon our surface selves, our behaviors, language, dreams and fantasies; that we can sometimes be consumed by our childhood familial roles and even find ourselves re-enacting them as adults; that our sexuality might be as ambiguous and multifaceted as our compendious emotional beings and individual histories — these core conceits, in the forms they circulate among us, are indebted to Freud's writings.
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