Sentence examples for the conceit upon which from inspiring English sources

The conceit upon which "Kingsman: The Secret Service" rests is a simple one.

The dancing sharks… Dale had been doing a lot of reading on Hellenic myth, so when he said he had a surprise for us at his Pumpkin Jamboree… The conceit upon which "Kingsman: The Secret Service" rests is a simple one.

The only thing that doesn't quite work about "Secret" is the conceit from which it derives its title.

Watching an actor playing oneself tickles the conceit, which is always gratifying.

Reclaiming the suburbs On some mighty eagle's beak Salty and getting fresh Not so easy Umpire of liberty ReprintsSuch is the conceit that undergirds not only the Supreme Court but also, by extension, the doctrine of the separation of powers upon which the American polity stands.

The basic conceit on which Ackroyd's fable rests is -- like everything in this book -- fanciful.

Her book exploded the tidy conceit in which I had been schooled: that literary criticism and social politics were things apart from one another.

The conceit of the film, which opens on Dec. 29, is that Schreck was a vampire.

One is the "starve the beast" conceit, which holds that cutting taxes will force government spending downward.

Because his health was deteriorating, another scholar, philosopher William W. Bartley III, helped edit the ultimate volume, The Fatal Conceit, which was published in 1988.

Somewhat surprisingly (to me, anyway), director Neil Blomkamp's sci-fi parable starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster was as starkly polarizing upon its release last August as the film's central conceit, which posits a similar divide between haves and have-nots.