Sentence examples for some conceit from inspiring English sources

"You've got to feel that it's not just some conceit," he said.

Lots of good speeches, and some bad ones, use some conceit, story, or aphorism through the whole speech as a kind of metaphor.

What was strongest about the best dishes wasn't some fanciful conceit or adornment, but rather the quality and preparation of the centerpiece ingredient.

Aristophanic comedy sought its laughable quality not so much in the imitation of a person as in the representation of "some odd conceit which had commonly somewhat of unnatural or obscene in it".

And: "The form takes its effect by concentrating on these words and slowly building up our interest in them; all their latent implications are brought out by the repetitions; and each in turn is used to build up some simple conceit.

These gratuitous earworms have done so by appealing to the basest summer desires with tired cliches, unadventurous musical tropes and/or some cloying conceit.

A few speeches have been sharpened here by cutting some knotty conceits.

A few speeches have been sharpened here by cutting some knotty conceits.

The sequence deftly balances humor and suspense -- it has already drawn some comparisons to the opening of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the opening sequences of many a Bond film -- and allows Abrams to start playing with some 3D conceits that weren't available to him in the first film.

Not through some clumsy political conceit either, though there are plenty of implications.

Indeed, Kennedy may remind some of a conceit used in the Eddie Murphy comedy "Coming to America".