Sentence examples for in conceit from inspiring English sources
The playwright Jordan Harrison is concerned less with artificial intelligence than with the natural span of a human life, and his play, directed by Anne Kauffman, has all the hallmarks of the best science fiction: it's clever in conceit, alive with humor, surprising in its turns, and terribly haunting by the time the lights go out.
(Similar in conceit to Netflix's recommendation engine).
Adlibrium enables transactions and verification by allowing merchants to punch in an ID, similar in conceit to GrouponNow, with the main difference being that Adlibrium takes no commissions.
It's a simple product in conceit, but it works, and it's a great complement to Find My iPhone, so that users can now keep track of their iPhones and even hope to reconnect with lost feature phones, iPods, keys, and more.
From the beginning, Mr. Romney has couched his arguments in a disappointed father's more-from-sadness-than-in-anger conceit.
That, at least, is the tongue-in-cheek conceit of two new satirical Twitter accounts, @SaveDenmark and @SaveSwitzerland.
Like "Up," "Inside Out," which premiered to ecstatic reviews at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday in advance of its theatrical opening June 19, is daringly original in its conceit, in which emotions serve as characters and a little girl's head as the setting.
Extremely well-acted and directed (though Swank occasionally grated on me), for me the film still falls short by being a tad too obvious and heavy-handed in its conceit (in Hilary, the crusty Clint finds the daughter he'd lost), a throwback to the classics of the thirties that were somehow better able to pull off this sort of overt sentimentality.
It's bitter slapstick in its conceit, but lacking in virulence in performance, more "Three Stooges" than "Arturo Ui".
She writes, "Radical in its conceit, familiar in its everyday details, 'Boyhood' exists at the juncture of classical cinema and the modern art film without being slavishly indebted to either tradition.
Seemingly banal in its conceit, wildly startling in its execution, it tracks a film crew that, like a detective squad, investigates what became of an ordinary man.
