Word: conceits
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...city’s small clubs… [D]espite its tattered appearance (and so-so acoustics), all seats are filled for most shows.”The account could not speak more clearly or tragically. Where the air tastes like age and the band sounds like conceit framed by a stage and respectable album sales, Death Cab played on Tuesday for thousands. The carpets bore the stains of too many feet and the paint weighed heavy on the walls. And by the aisles, burly security guards wearing orange vests, arms crossed like shields over their chests made sure that...
...document lays bare what many have suspected for so long, that the decisions to include or exclude are marked by social conceit...
...principal conceit of Black Hole is that a disease called "the bug" has been infecting teenagers who engage in sexual activity. But instead of causing pain or sores or even death, the infection results in freakish deformities of varying degrees. One character develops a small tail, another a second mouth at the base of his neck, and others sprout tumescent growths on the face or webbing between their digits. They seem like corporeal manifestations of their inner souls. (If you were going to develop a strange growth, what would it look like?) Every sensitive outcast's nightmare comes true...
...stairs. Is she an authorial intervention? A meddling cupid? A cynic about his real intentions with the Jokics, whom she sees as more avaricious than angelic? Or is she the amputee's perfect companion? In Slow Man, she's all of the above, and a wonderful literary conceit to boot. But most of all, she's a refreshingly down-to-earth symbol of that airiest of pursuits - creative writing, which is the real subject of Coetzee's playful novel...
Expectations were that Altman would take Companion's mixture of sentiment and gentle satire and make it moodier and darker. Not so, says Keillor. "I made it darker, by introducing the conceit of the last show." In the movie, the show has been sold to a conglomerate, whose axman (Tommy Lee Jones) arrives at the end of the broadcast to shut it down. No wonder the Angel of Death (Virginia Madsen) is gliding through the theater's wings...