An extended metaphor, also known as a conceit or sustained metaphor, is the use of a single metaphor or analogy at length in a work of literature. It...

Look up conceit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A conceit is an extended metaphor, especially in literature. Conceit may also refer to: Conceit (novel)...

In drama and other art forms, the central conceit of a work of fiction is the underlying fictitious assumption which must be accepted by the audience...

Gambler's conceit is the fallacy described by behavioral economist David J. Ewing, where a gambler believes they will be able to stop a risky behavior...

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism is a book written by the economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek and edited by the philosopher...

Conceit (fl. c. 2007) is an American rapper from San Francisco. He won the YouTube "On The Rise" video contest, [clarification needed][when?] where the...

Conceit is a novel by the Canadian author Mary Novik, published in 2007 by Doubleday Canada. Set in 17th century London, Conceit is the story of Pegge...

Conceit is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Burton George, produced by Selznick Pictures, and released by Select Pictures. The film stars...

Author and critic Salman Rushdie argues that it has "a patently ridiculous conceit." The film received positive reviews from many Indian film critics, though...

album, the band had demoed three tracks, "A New Level", "Regular People (Conceit)" and "No Good (Attack the Radical)". The rest of the songs were written...

My Lord Conceit is a 1921 British crime film directed by F. Martin Thornton and starring Evelyn Boucher, Maresco Marisini and Rowland Myles. Evelyn Boucher...

is a Buddhist term that may be translated as "pride", "arrogance", or "conceit". It is defined as an inflated mind that makes whatever is suitable, such...

Satirical print from the pamphlet Greene in Conceit (1598) depicting the deceased Robert Greene (wearing a winding sheet) still writing from beyond the...

flood. All are modest and tuneful enough to make you forgive 'Disease of Conceit,' which is neither." But as Heylin notes, "Though many a critic who had...

The Time Traveler's Wife often kills the mood with its overdetermined conceit." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score...

Darby and Joan is a proverbial phrase for a married couple content to share a quiet life of mutual devotion. The Nuttall Encyclopædia defined the phrase...

hour too long". Newsweek's David Ansen writes that the "two-character conceit doesn't warrant a two-and-a-half-hour running time". As of 2020, the film...

Gigliotti, Gilbert L. (2002). A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-30973-1. Archived from the original on...

pure abode sensual desire ill will arahant none desire for material rebirth desire for immaterial rebirth conceit restlessness ignorance higher fetters...

romance, which is a biting satire on philosophy, ignorance, and the self-conceit of mankind (1752, English 1753). His Zadig (1747) and Candide (1759) became...

without being aggressively macho, irreverent but also sincere – helps sell a conceit that might have crashed with any other actor". Jawan broke the records...

smoke (τύφος)" which signified false belief, mindlessness, folly, and conceit. Eudaimonia, or human flourishing, depends on self-sufficiency (αὐτάρκεια)...

there are no twins in the Jacobs story. Our Relations owes its central conceit to The Comedy of Errors. As in the Shakespeare play, the story revolves...

the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." --Groats-Worth of Wit; cited from William...

that can be done with Leland, but the character comes from a writer's conceits, not from life." A. O. Scott of The New York Times noted that he "struggles...

frequently featured characters performing scenes from Romeo and Juliet. The conceit of dramatising Shakespeare writing Romeo and Juliet has been used several...

mystery, wisdom, science. Reversed: Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge. In astrology, the High Priestess's primary correspondence...

consensus reads: "Totally Killer may not take full advantage of its promising conceit, but this time-traveling horror/sci-fi mashup is still enjoyable overall...

in a back room he was depressed for days, entertaining for a time the conceit that he had failed in his duty and was a murderer. These and other good...

stop those who are in fact not bodhisattvas from giving rise to the self-conceit that they are." However, for Sarvāstivāda, one is not technically a bodhisattva...