Word: conceitedly
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...hard-won Catholic faith, T.S. Eliot spun Murder in the Cathedral in 1935 out of the stuff of the ritual he was preoccupied with and the metaphysical poetry he esteemed. Since then, its readers have appreciated its poetic merit, but its audiences have sat uncomfortably as paradox and conceit flew by, just out of their grasp...
...play's conceit is that Remington has invited the audience to be his guests in his home in New Rochelle, N.Y., in 1902. Remington is middleaged, but one can sniff gunpowder in his temperament. Remington (played with granitic force by Michael Kevin) begins on an elegiac note. He recalls sitting beside a wintry campfire and hearing a gnarled veteran of the receding frontier say: "In a few years, the railroad will come all along the Yellowstone ... the wild riders and the vacant lands are about to vanish forever " But for a boy of 19, there were plenty of adventures...
Imagine an instant replay-not in slow motion, but in reverse. That is what Harold Pinter has done in depicting an adulterous love affair. It is over in the first of nine scenes, and it begins just before the curtain drops. This is a clever conceit. Pinter, as we have much past reason to know, cannot write a wrong line-or a dull pause. The key actors, Raul Julia, Blythe Banner and Roy Scheider, are marvels of professional finesse, and Peter Hall's direction is ticktock perfect in its precision...
...mistaken for a philosopher, a sex symbol and a potential presidential candidate. The secret of his success is TV. Having been nurtured by the medium, Chance has all the attributes of a perfect TV star; he is bland, nonthreatening and always cheery. It is Kosinski's conceit that even a simpleton, if telegenic, has what it takes to be king in the land of the tube...
...preacher to students, he constantly searches for "the judgment of history upon this place and this moment. We're very unlikely to uncover anything new. It's a conceit of our age that we are the first people who ever encountered anxiety or fear or guilt." When Gomes preached on one of the year's hottest campus issues, divestiture of university investments in firms active in South Africa, he did not dwell on the politics. Instead, he spoke of the irony that the dispute underscored: the crying need for firm moral convictions in a time when universities...