Word: conceit
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...been training in vaudeville for years; maybe the mechanicals don't laugh hard enough at those gay old parochial Elizabethan jokes abous syphilis and sonnets, but their sense of timing and horseplay is just superb. Terry Malick's Bottom, who "gleeks on occasion" with wonderfully oafish conceit, and Philip Traci's absurdly studied Quince are the true leaders of this lot, and a grining David Riggs makes an enchanting Thisby in the interlude...
...review of the musical, Howard Taubman of the New York Times said, Mr. Segal can turn out sparkling lines, all of conceit and interesting rhymes.... Through Mr. Segal and Mr. Raposo he new Harvard generation may move into Broadway as authoritatively as its predecessors swarmed into Washington." The New Yorker called the show "a refreshing musical comedy" with its beater critic Edith Oliver adding. "What found irresistible was the music--sometimes like early, what-the-hell Dodgers, sometimes like early happy-go-lucky Loesser, sometimes like a parody of later inspirational Rodgers...
...appeared all too infrequently in Cambridge publications. It would be folly to attempt to describe the delicacies of Mr. Johnston's style, his skill in blank verse, his felicity of rhyme; I must pretermit all this, even decline to mention the phrasing of his narrative, the ingenuity of his conceit. I cannot, however, refrain from remarking with highest approbation--upon his obvious familiarity with the Lesser Celandine, a flower whose possibilities have never been adequately explored; and his accurate and steadfast belief in Nymphs and Satyrs, the old and true deities, whose existence has in no way been refuted...
...reasoned, money could be raised for the church's rebuilding. The veil is still there, and Chartres is dedicated to the Virgin. "This church was built for her," wrote Henry Adams, "in this spirit of simpleminded, practical, utilitarian faith-in this singleness of thought." In a mawkish conceit, he added: "Exactly as a little girl sets up a dollhouse for her favorite doll...
Soviet proposals make it clear that the United States will not get full cooperation until it abandons its attemps to defeat Communism and accepts the challenge of competition. Unless Americans abandon their conceit that refusing to trade with Communists will prove the superiority of capitalism, the Soviets will suspect, quite rightly, that cultural exchange is only a hollow gesture toward co-existence...