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...always complaining about not having enough to do should be retrained to repair television sets. I explained to my wife that the Maytag commercials aren't meant to be taken literally, that Maytag repairmen actually do have enough to do, and that the commercials are simply employing a small conceit as a way of calling attention to a claim that Maytag appliances require less servicing than competing brands...
...metrical poems, and a later bout with surrealism, his poetry has more recently developed certain regular characteristics: the use of ordinary diction; an engagement with certain issues, especially family history, the difference between urban and rural life and the approach of death; and, frequently, the use of a central conceit, sometimes quite fantastic, to structure his poems. This last tendency is best illustrated in The Museum of Clear Ideas, Hall's 1993 book, in which one poem is framed as his explanation the game of baseball to Kurt Schwitters, the Dada collagist...
...comic conceit of the confusion caused by look-alikes has been used everywhere from Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors to "The Patty Duke Show" to "Parent Trap." But the technology in "Multiplicity" is seamless, and Keaton does a good job of giving each of his xeroxes a distinct (if somewhat stereotyped) personality. There's the first, harried Doug, who loses serious likeability points for suggesting his wife quit her new job because even with two of him, he can't handle taking care of the kids. The second Doug, who takes over the construction job, becomes macho and tough...
...Tony nomination ended with Rosie claiming she'd turn down the Nobel Peace Prize. That's the sort of one-liner that people who have never even appeared on Star Search have been using around the water cooler for weeks (not to mention the fact that it was the conceit of a humor column in the New Yorker almost a month ago). And what might the punch line be of a joke that begins, "Archaeologists in Los Angeles are excavating a red-light district to see how prostitutes lived at the turn of the century"? You guessed it: "Charlie Sheen...
...nation must have some sort of self-pride. Patriotism, loyalty and competitiveness are natural qualities that create a positive atmosphere. But when we at Harvard attempt to build our dismal school spirit, we go too far. To those who live in the outside world, it comes across as conceit. Consequently, Harvard students are labeled as arrogant individuals. But most of us are not. We are simply an arrogant community...