Sentence examples for underlying conceit from inspiring English sources

The play's underlying conceit -- two wives in two ports, both of whom think they are the sole Mrs. F. -- takes flight early.

The underlying conceit of this picaresque series is to follow an English hunting party -- the Berrybenders, who come straight out of the dottier country reaches of Nancy Mitford -- as they cross the American West in the early 1830's.

Then, there's the underlying conceit: mammals, we learn, are no longer split into predators and prey.

They are very funny on a simple visual level, but there is an underlying conceit, which is the leap from two to three dimensions.

James Thompson, who teaches film for Duke University's visiting program at the University of Southern California, speculates that only habitués of the comic-book world — he is one — will ever really get the underlying conceit of "Cowboys & Aliens".

On the contrary, this familiarity, the way Asimov's invented societies recapitulate historical models, goes right along with his underlying conceit: the possibility of a rigorous, mathematical social science that understands society, can predict how it changes, and can be used to shape those changes.

In Stratford, east London, where I began – the conceit underlying the journey was that I would start in cosmopolitan, Olympic Stratford and end in heart-of-England, Shakespearean Stratford – people born to parents who had migrated to the UK seemed much happier to be called British rather than English.

That conceit underlies the whole story arc.

Depending on what theory of history you subscribe to, liberalism is a branch of rational thinking applied to politics, an expression of certain underlying ethical values, or a bourgeois conceit that capitalism can be tamed.

His wit has proved enduring, a deep learning underlies his pastoral conceits, and his plain language has gained in lustre over the centuries.

Curiously, underlying these formal experiments was a startling conceit: that sensations experienced when contemplating the natural world could be translated into patterns and graphic marks that generate, for the viewer, similarly abstract emotions.