conceits 1 of 2

plural of conceit

conceits

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of conceit, chiefly dialect

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of conceits
Noun
One of Weapons’ conceits is its chapter structure centering on particular characters, and sources say that Cregger actually had a chapter focused on Gladys and some of her backstory. Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025 All the conceits of a true-crime film are there – the lead detective interviews, shaky images from police-cams, the salacious headlines, the nauseating crime scene photos, the TV news reports, teary interviews with friends and family. Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conceits
Noun
  • This is a series that has always operated as absurd speculation, where broad metaphors about life and science get posited amid techno beats and car chases.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Its pointed lyrics and dark metaphors have led many to dissect not only Swift’s personal experiences with industry executives but the broader realities facing young artists in the music business today.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While magicians use illusions to make objects float, physicists pursue levitation for its practical advantages.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Audience online have embraced the musical's campy humor, jaw-dropping stage illusions and sing-along score, with bootleg of the production going viral on TikTok and YouTube.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is lovely writing in which the author weaves information about the history of maps and how they are made, and Dolores imagines her parents in love in their little apartment where her mother/aunt took care of her as a baby.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In the first episode, Adeline shows Ed a comic book with graphic Holocaust imagery and imagines Ilse Koch, a Nazi, played by Krieps.
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That credo reasserts itself as Polly begins to be haunted by visions of her loved ones.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Esmail seems too enamored of his own (tiresome) visions of Nifty Things That Might Happen During an Apocalypse to actually bother fleshing any of these characters out.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The company envisions the generator serving a variety of applications, from powering remote communities and critical infrastructure to ensuring energy resilience for military operations and data centers.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Shaping the Future of Logistics Looking ahead, Kumar envisions a future where AI and data analytics help small and mid-sized e-commerce businesses compete on equal footing with global leaders.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Yet his film, even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones, to battle other advocates’ pernicious myths with virtuous ones.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Dominant culture echoed with racist fantasies like of Birth of a Nation (1915; based on a novel and play of 1905) and Gone With The Wind (novel 1936, movie 1939).
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But Safdie has applied that signature aesthetic to a story of much grander scope, of an American misfit who dreams big.
    David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Hothead dreams neither of lesbian supremacy nor of assimilation but of a radical fluidity.
    Jo Livingstone, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In pieces on patriotism as a kind of madness, on the long history of Polish and Russian colonizations and cultural appropriations of Ukraine, on the ways communities fantasize and share their daydreams, and others, Janion creates wormholes between past and present.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Ellen retreats to her room and daydreams of her father, who understood his headstrong daughter.
    Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025

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