One could luxuriate for long hours in similar acousmatic conceits and their morbid implications, all those sinister telephone voices.
In his opening pages he almost falls over his own metatextual conceits.
Such literary conceits demanded hard labours for composers who took inspiration from them.
One poem impresses through its pathos, the other through its rhetorical subtlety and bold conceits.
He faults them, to be sure, for their 'want of variety' and extravagant conceits.
The conceits point to a monstrous self-perversion, the forfeiting of integrity and the living out of a lie at which, moreover, his mind or heart knowingly connives.
The former produces a feverish versatility of perception, a fantasia of epistemological pluralism, whose mercurial conceits are no more 'uncertain and adulterate' than their mutating physical objects.
The two had much in common: conceit, fame, unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress.
