Word: conceit
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...suited to the life of youth. Yet there is a cautionary note, to be directed at all aspiring student greats. The glamour to be reaped is but a temporary one, born in a small community of willing star-seekers. It is a cardinal sin to assume an air of conceit in such an environment, for this is not your authentic self you are putting on display, but a mere moment of show beneath which little distinguishes you from the common herd...
...Welles made a wonderful movie -- an eccentric adaptation that is in spirit as true to Shakespeare's text as, say, Verdi's Otello. The director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale of the ebony Moor and his blond bride in images of stark chiaroscuro, the blackest black and the whitest white. No moral or visual gray tones here. Dark cloaked figures rush toward the Grand Canal, and pigeons scatter up into an angry sky. The spider-webbery of shadows casts doom across an innocent face. It is a canvas, of baroque silhouettes and diagonals rampant, that marries text...
...soulful blue-gray Weimaraner that is by now the most famous artist's model since Alfred Stieglitz picked up the scent of Georgia O'Keeffe. In the oversize Polaroids that Wegman started making in the late 1970s, Man Ray can be found patiently enduring whatever new conceit his master would visit on him. Dusted in flour, tricked up as an elephant, wrapped head to toe in Christmas-tree garlands, he had the comic gravity of Buster Keaton and the acrobatic ambiguities of a four-legged pun. The pictures made Wegman, until then a lesser-known Conceptualist, the kind of artist...
From the day Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990 until it was evicted nearly seven months later, Bush operated on the conceit that he was the leader not only of the U.S. but of the world. No one had elected him to the latter post, but almost no one except Saddam objected. Quite the contrary, the world was eager for someone to follow, and Bush obliged. For a long, proud moment, he conquered the vision thing. It was the high point of his presidency...
...institute is so little known and so anachronistic -- a club, chapel and classroom complex for merchant mariners -- that it seems like a novelistic conceit. Its fey charms evidently inspired James Stewart Polshek as he designed its new quarters. Instead of creating a boringly deferential pseudo- 18th century building, he has both respected tradition and done something ( entirely original. From a new, neighborly four-story red brick base, Polshek has popped two prow-shaped floors clad in a modernist grid of white enameled metal. Such a building could be tricky and meretricious, but Polshek, one of the finest uncelebrated architects working...