Word: conceited
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...PIONEER CAR STEREOS The conceit is amusingly elaborate. A five-ad print campaign titled "The Road-Kill Diaries" notes the afterlife insights of critters flattened by automobiles with distractingly good sound systems. Sample entry: "Spent the morning burrowing. Heard the sound of some powerful amps. Should've looked both ways...
...wiseguys what "Lourdes was to hunchbacks and cripples," a holy ground where organized crime was free to practice its amoral rites and where that miracle cure for the terminally outcast--sudden, improbable wealth--was always a real possibility. There's something a little too easy in this conceit, although there's good black comedy in it too--especially in the notion that it is the tragic flaw of hubris that eventually robs Sam and Nicky of their place in paradise. The former, apparently unaware of Bugsy Siegel's fate, aspires to celebrity-mobster status; the latter ratchets up his murder...
...during the 1980s, Timberg "kept picking up echoes of Vietnam ... I remember thinking that perhaps Iran-contra was at least in part the bill for Vietnam finally coming due." Timberg had been told that the nightingale cannot perform unless it first hears a few notes from another nightingale. His conceit is that in the '80s, Ronald Reagan sang the nightingale's song of patriotism and military pride and honor and sacrifice, a traditional American hymn of duty and manhood that Vietnam had silenced, or turned obscene. Timberg thinks three of the five men--North, Poindexter and McFarlane--got tangled...
...idea that tourism inevitably strips off some holiness of place, some magic, may be descended from the primitive conceit that a camera steals the soul of the person photographed. The sacred place (Mount Sinai, Mount Fuji, the Grand Canyon) is an onion, and each new wave of Visigoths with video cameras peels away a layer of mystique, until the magic that drew the stranger in the first place is gone, and instead the tourist finds--other tourists. And with them, the hotels and fast foods and souvenirs and globally identical amenities. A real traveler hates all that...
...comes up with something altogether different and superior. Tomei gained 20 pounds for the role and has never looked better--voluptuous, sensual, kinetic and delicately beautiful. In addition, her accent is impeccable. She is at times almost steretypically overripe, and yet she creates a genuineness which saves the whole conceit. Every time she is onscreen, she is magnetic; you are drawn to her because you do not know what she is going to do, and she fills the movie with a joyful noise...