How to Use conceit in a Sentence

conceit

noun

• His conceit has earned him many enemies.
• The central conceit of Run and Hide is a correction of the record.
  — Rafia Zakaria, The New Republic, 5 May 2022
• The show’s conceit is that the group will have to find a way to build a new human society in six weeks.
  — Eva Holland, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2022
• And one of the central things to the conceit of the novel is that some days are more eventful than others.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2024
• Ndlovu has a gift for clever conceits and knife-twist endings.
  — Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• The conceit of the show is bringing this old school band to the modern age and way of making music.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• The conceit is a story-within-a-story, as the cast plays a troupe of actors and stage crew for a play.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
• And the conceit of Strangers on a Train could be set beautifully in the high-school ecosystem.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2022
• The true conceit of the Post Racial Myth is one that has been exemplified time and time again in the years since the release of this film.
  — Gerald Nesmith, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
• It was designed to show how ridiculous the conceit was and to prod antisemites.
  — Marc Maron, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Okay, so the conceit is that there are multiple White Lotus hotels, and this one is off the coast of Italy.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2022
• Polley’s conceit is that Autje is telling the story of the meeting to the unborn child of Ona, played by Rooney Mara.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Time, 14 Sep. 2022
• One of the book’s principal conceits is that these case studies are part of a larger trend.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
• Christie’s entire conceit is a fiction, a figment, a mirage — that is, a lie.
  — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• There’s an à-la-carte menu, and a shop-the-pantry conceit that harks back to the whole dinner-in-a-deli vibe of its Roman progenitor.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
• For old-school, high-church surfers, the search for a hundred-foot wave can seem like a marketing conceit, not to mention a death trap.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• To Gromyko, such conceit must have seemed breathtaking.
  — Benn Steil, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
• But within that simple conceit is a world of delicious ways to achieve it.
  — Ben Mimscooking Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2023
• The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
  — Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• Seemingly lost in all of Khan’s conceit is that big signals victory for the rest of us.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• That conceit, fueled by the addition of the overkill third wild-card berth, has been propping up a season on its last legs.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
• But, for hundreds of years, the felony-murder doctrine has muddled this conceit.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Such a conceit—that emotions can be as stylized as clothes—is not a fault so much as a sly strategy.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
• The conceit worked so well because Pumpkins was an anomaly—a goof among discernibly scary scenes.
  — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2022
• And that conceit remained unchanged for the first seven seasons.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2022
• The conceit is simple: Friesen listens to Infowars broadcasts and then breaks them down for the benefit of Holmes, who doesn’t.
  — Emma Dibdin, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• At their best, his movies are genuinely clever in conceit and construct.
  — WIRED, 24 July 2023
• The book is, in other words, a tale of drift in the gig economy—but one you get coaxed into reading by the novelty of its conceit.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
• Johnson took this conceit a step further by writing a cameo for Williams in which no one shows up for the training session.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2022
• Aiming to be a tense drama about trust, the film struggles to balance the personal and cultural stakes at the heart of its neat conceit.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024