Sentence examples for conceit to from inspiring English sources

Why not transfer this visual conceit to duck à l'orange?

It's a satisfying conceit to hang the story on".

The idea of truth revealed through distortion was a fascinating conceit to Baroque artists and patrons.

The stated rationale for secrecy looks to them like a conceit to cloak official collusion.

He chose a dance form - the pavane - as a poetic conceit, to symbolize his human drama.

Indeed it is a common intellectual conceit to see all professions as, at heart, welfare.

The director allows the conceit to do too much of the work.

It's a difficult conceit to pull off, and not because she isn't working at it.

It raises the clever conceit to a high art, gently playing with its visitors.

It is a conceit to think that all that we say is new and original".

His best songs follow a single conceit to the vanishing point and throw in jarringly specific details.