Word: conceits
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...worry. You don’t have to see the movie of the same name—it’s totally unrelated to the show. You don’t even have to care about football: like all great fiction, the show merely uses its central conceit as a springboard. You also don’t have to dumb yourself down for the seemingly corny plot threads of the early episodes, as the show handles well-worn set-ups like a great jazz musician taking on the standards. With a brilliant cast of virtual unknowns, stunning cinematography...
...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...