Mr. Carmellini cares more about robust flavors than about clever conceits.

To impose clever theatrical conceits on a play that is built on little more than cleverness invariably leads to clutter.

At that, it was more than a clever conceit, its minimal, dissonant motifs building to hard-won, satisfying consonance.

"Mostly Mozart" is a clever conceit, no question, with a track record of three decades to prove it.

Scott writes, "Both projects have clever conceits, but over time they become bittersweet commentaries on aspiration and failure."

Call it a clever conceit.

It's a clever conceit, and at first, Majestic is lots of fun.

I've read so many articles about the search for a fitting tribute to the victims, seen so many drawings of clever architectural conceits.

In this woman's airless emotional universe, other human beings function largely as clever figurative conceits.

That's a clever conceit, but it's not quite a novel.