Conceits [noun]

By the time she reaches her desperate endgame, however, he has taken us beyond the tropes of his faux-horror conceit and brought us squarely into the climax of a caper film.

While this conceit might feel forced in the hands of a lesser writer, Mendelsohn pulls it off surprisingly well.

Even if you believe that to be so, Cassie’s doggedness is an exhausting and not particularly deep conceit for a film.

If we accept the conceit of Gray’s book and just look at how cats live, then maybe we can learn a thing or two.

All of that could have been alleviated, perhaps, by a cast capable of finding truth within the conceits and translating them to the screen in a form that at least resonates with real human emotion.

The fund will face pressure as investors will be watching closely to see if its core conceit — targeting diverse Midwest-based founders — will lead to outsize gains.

Having seen no service, he owed his appointment largely to his conceit and good looks.

I am out of conceit with England just now; and would far rather have gone to the Antipodes.

It would argue too much literary conceit on my part were I anxious to restore it to the light of day.

It came to Lowell in a flash that Bill's arrogance sprang from something deeper than mere conceit or drunkenness.