Word: conceits
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...song of this cloth, “Summertime Clothes,” opens with a fierce, bass-heavy synthesizer and kick-drum reminiscent of the previous album’s triumphant “For Reverend Green,” but quickly eschews that juggernaut’s bipolar conceit in search of sunny pop-hooks.Maybe it’s this sort of decision that makes “Merriweather Post Pavilion” pale slightly next to “Strawberry Jam.” While that album crystallized the psychological depths of Animal Collective’s music?...
...Oratorio” would benefit from choosing one of two directions—either further developing the underlying plot or abandoning the storyline altogether and indulging in pure imagery. The common thread of these spectacles is one of reversal and of questioning impossibility. But the conceit never grows stilted or predictable. Sure, the idea of someone walking on her hands isn’t particularly unique in and of itself, but in “Aurélia’s Oratorio,” the figure also carries a hat and purse on her elevated feet. There...
This one is set to an old ditty called "Miss Suzy," the conceit of which is that the end of each line ends with a dirty word that is said in some form at the beginning of the next line. It went a little something like this...
...constraints on the freedom of the process. Instead, he says, the very idea of the moving image implies a sort of narrative.“Film is a narrative form. Something is laid out and builds upon it continually,” Dorsky says. The viewer has no prescribed conceit, no narrative to give consent to. Narrative construction imposed by a director—a “controller”—is regressive. “When the controller is not there, then your mind likes to relax and become itself,” Dorsky says...
...that Hanna's illiteracy symbolizes the willed ignorance of the German people about the genocide that was going on around them during World War II. Historically speaking, Germany was among the most literate nations and, also, one of the most morally conscientious ones - which is why Schlink's illiteracy conceit works so well. If you can read - whether it be a book or highly visible mass behavior - yet refuse to do so, then what might in another context be dismissed as no more than backwoods ignorance is transformed into a vast and palpable moral crime. I'm not certain that...