Word: conceits
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...said he’s seen a lot of changes in the industry since he began wrestling in 1989. According to Austin, the most pronounced shift was the gradual abandonment of the conceit that wrestling is “real” in the sense of not having its matches predetermined...
...squeeze it out (for themselves)? Some say it's the short-term perspective of the investing public. Some say it's excessive regulation, most of which doesn't apply to private-equity investments. Whatever the explanation, the billions earned by private-equity operations aren't "created," as the whimsical conceit of Wall Street troubadours would have it. These billions are a toll charge collected from ordinary investors...
...CONCEIT: The 74-sec. ad mimics the famous"Big Brother" Apple ad from the '84 Super Bowl...
...pieces were amusing, and a few of them were hilarious. Some turned out to be tightly cohesive jokes about wordplay, and others were built around an innovative conceit...
...Eleazer Williams In the early 19th century Williams, a Mohawk missionary who once tried to establish his own kingdom in Wisconsin, propagated the story that he was the Bourbon prince in exile, spirited to the Americas by French royalists after the Revolution. Williams' conceit-he went so far as to forge his own adoption papers-was later satirized by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...