Word: conceited
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...shape of Calvino's parables is a constant. Each embodies some philosophical conceit, some paradox of perception or memory, and each finds form in a peculiar kind of physical description. The invisible cities bulge with imaginative and very specific detail: Chloe is peopled by "a girl twirling a parasol on her shoulder," "a woman in black, showing her full age, her eyes restless beneath her veil, her lips trembling," "a young man with white hair," and "two girls, twins, dressed in coral." In Eusapia, a city of the dead...
...selling themselves short. Their ballads have often been far more original than their critics have cared to admit. Candle in the Wind, for example, is both a comment on the Marilyn Monroe cult and a tribute to the confused, touching woman who caused it. Rocket Man is a sweet conceit in which the writers conjure up for us what the real-life astronauts never seem to have: the feeling of anxious sadness that must attend exceedingly rapid passage from familiar earth into the dark, cold reaches of unknowable outer space. Then there is Daniel, a song about a wounded...
...shot?" asks a character out of the blue. "Why?" queries Hackman. "Because it's one of those questions everyone knows the answer to." There's no real purpose to this dialogue (a tenuous connection to a murder later on is all), and it only seems to serve as a conceit: no great witticism, but maybe something no one's bothered to write down before, which seems to appeal to the writer's ego as it confuses the audience...
...CONCEIT HAS ALWAYS colored Harvard's relations with the city of Cambridge. Although the Bok administration may admit it less than previous administrations. University officials still believe Cambridge should be honored that Harvard has descended upon it. And, to some residents, it even seems that Harvard is asking surrounding communities to sacrifice their own interests just to keep the University happy...
...play progresses. When Reg finally appears. Ben admits to him that, "metaphorically," at least, he and Joey are married. But Reg resolutely refuses to surrender the stage, and when he leaves, it is clear that Joey is no longer Ben's. The outsider easily punctures the academic conceit. Michael Martorano's Reg, it must be added, is yet another strong and faultless performance...