Word: conceits
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...oration, entitled “The Campus Somniorum” or “The Field of Dreams” enacts an extended conceit between Harvard’s and America’s athletic pastime—comparing each year of her college education to one base on the diamond...
...oration, entitled “The Campus Somniorum” or “The Field of Dreams” enacts an extended conceit between Harvard’s and America’s athletic pastime—comparing each year of her college education to one base on the diamond...
...rare up-tempo number, recounts Delerm's imagined relationship with the French actress 27 years his senior. "We are listening to Gregorian chant," he sings. "She barely speaks and me I say nothing/ We have a relationship like that/ Fanny Ardant and me." Delerm deftly turns an implausible conceit into a finely observed slice of life, in which the odd couple spend awkward weekends at his parents' house. "I like the idea that we don't know the people around us, what's going on in their heads," Delerm says. "We see two people across from each other...
...Monday night’s festival, President Bush was the target of nearly every film and the artists criticized his politics with varying degrees of intellectual depth and artistic ability. Unfortunately, the conceit largely backfired, as the anti-authoritarian criticisms gradually lost their power with every repetition...
...film begins dreamily with a female voice entreating us to enter its world as we are calmed with images of an serene beach; everything will be alright, it says. In this way, Amenabar establishes a spiritually-infused dreamscape distinct from the corporeal world, a conceit that pervades the film...