It's a fairly uncommon conceit in television, although I know it has a significant place in theater.
She is the perfect winner of American Idol, embodying the show's diamond-in-the-rough conceit.
There's a conceit that Scotland is more welcoming.
Being 'positive' is a problematically simplistic conceit; but then, so is its opposite.
The election campaign is into its first week, not quite out of the phoney war stage yet, with Thursday's seven-way TV debate promising to be an atonal chorus of evasion and conceit.
It was immensely effective and played very well indeed in Labour-voting neighbourhoods, largely because it triggered a gut anti-Tory reaction and played to Yes Scotland's conceit that Scots were more socially liberal than England.
With its slightly starry cast, simplistic conceit and a comedic dynamic built mainly on one-liners, it seemed more than a little generic.
To the outsider's eye these complaints tend to display a high degree of pettiness and conceit, as with the applicant for a medical job with the commission who argued that his non-hiring was explicable only by a prejudice on the commission's part against Swedish medical qualifications.
History, you might say, is coming to a happy end.Eastern Europe was mostly a conceit of the cold war, based on Stalin's lumping together of everything to the east of the Iron Curtain.
The basic conceit of being an entrepreneur having an idea and moving that idea forward is useful whether you work for yourself or within a company".
By the end the whizzkid is scrounging tips as a supermarket janitor, a victim either of self-doubt or of fear about where his strange powers might lead.The character and conceit might together have made a good novella.
