Examples of conceit

• 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.