Sentence examples for conceptual gambit from inspiring English sources
It is a tired conceptual gambit.
Capital is a monumental, admirable undertaking: a richer, more surprising, frankly more readable book than Goldsmith's blank conceptual gambit seems to promise.
To make Olivier a more current egregious type, his work would need to be more manipulative, or at least come packaged with a manipulative conceptual gambit, like, "This is a comment on neo-expressionist painting aimed at anyone who's pathetically bourgeois enough to want to buy it".
Whatever the import of this conceptual gambit, or of the irony animating Ms. Craven's treacly images of canaries, parrots and other sweetly ornamental birds, it would be a less interesting production without her exuberant, hedonistic way with color, big scale and painterly gesture (Johnson).
The resident D.J. and the art concierge may have become standard conceptual gambits at boutique operations from here to South Beach, but the Drake and the Gladstone are onto something a bit different.
And conceptual gambits like inviting visitors to steal certain assemblages -- as some people did at the show's opening -- or composing music by dripping ink on blank sheet music pages do little to advance the tradition of Dadaesque anarchism.
Promoters hype the work, claiming to find Conceptual angles in it, a gambit meant to fend off the deadly charge of senescence.
