Sentence examples for initial conceit from inspiring English sources
Tsiolkas's initial conceit is undeniably clever and the narrative has a compulsive quality.
There are, of course, redeeming features: an interesting initial conceit, the usual beautifully controlled writing.
Even the initial conceit of the Best North Korean Short Story survives in the form of interstitial chapters in which the "official" version of Commander Ga and Sun Moon's story is projected to all citizens by way of loudspeakers.
Although none of the far-fetched shenanigans that follow match the story's initial conceit in real-life absurdity, the movie, written and directed by Mr. Nyswaner and Philip Dorling, desperately piles on more and more silliness.
From this initial conceit springs the rest of the "Hitchhiker" plot, in which Arthur and his friend Ford Prefect (Mos Def), who appears human but hails from somewhere near Betelgeuse, hitch a ride through the interstellar void.
On one tune, "The Mite," they drove an initial surf-punk conceit out into the realm of vigorous expressionism.
While Todd McCarthy in Variety praised the initial set-up and conceit of the plot device, he criticised the formulaic approach leading to a "cornball denouement".
That initial idea is now also pushed aside by a far less subtle conceit that takes center stage.
In the initial, scrapped version for this show, the Jonas Brothers led double lives as spies, which, while a mockable conceit, at least was a conceit.
The Titanic metaphor is one I have used when writing about injustice in Congo, and it is fitting to revisit the literary conceit as Haiti faces the possibility of a reemerging cholera epidemic that could affect 800,000 people -- double the initial estimates.
