Sentence examples for wrong conceit from inspiring English sources
A terminal and blazingly wrong conceit.
A welcome, an interval and an apologetic postmortem ("Oh God, you weren't in tonight, were you? Why do people always come on the wrong night?") continue the conceit of a performance.
"Self-pity and conceit are not wrong.
But that conceit is probably wrong.
On "Doing It Wrong," some of the lyrics and lyrical conceit are borrowed from "The Wrong Thing to Do," by Don McLean — "Cry if you need to, but I can't stay to watch you" — but the melody and attitude is all Drake.
But if it is just to be a light evening of divertimentos -- nothing wrong with that -- why the silly programmatic conceit?
Weiner the documentary is a classic study of conceit and self-delusion, of a man with an almost fanatical reluctance to admit that something is wrong.
The central conceit of time-travelling do-gooder Sam jumping into a different person to put right what once went wrong was made literal in the production process.
The golf pants industry'll go bust.' " Less successful, perhaps, are Hansen's few forays into genre or comedic hyperbole: "My Kid's Dog," which labors to play out a small conceit (father hates family dog), or the title story, in which a "Double Indemnity -style murder goes grotesquely wrong.
