conventionalize
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"It is the incessant, continuous pressure of the herd ... to conventionalize its methods of acquiring the gratification of its needs."
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Melvin Moses Knight
Yet she did not know; she did not want to conventionalize him; there was something rather fine about his ruggedness.
From Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss
I like to draw from flowers and leaves and things about me; conventionalize them sometimes, and sometimes paint them just as they are,—in soft silk stitches.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
We do not separate the features as frequently as did that ancient people, but we conventionalize them as often.
From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay
"I thought it was only women who were privileged to change their mind," she began brightly; but Arkwright ignored her attempt to conventionalize the situation.
From Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
They're perfectly legitimate to study and they're interesting, but the reason I'm less interested in them is because they're conventionalized.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023
There are displays, often conventionalized within the norms of a culture: displays of power, strength, wealth, beauty, generosity, cleverness, and social status.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2013
He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib.”
From Slate ● May 18, 2013
Signs of the anciently known planets are conventionalized pictures.
From Time Magazine Archive
A collection of these villains' speeches would illustrate the conventionalized character of eighteenth century tragedy and the tendency of stage types to perpetuate themselves in theatrical tradition.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
Finally the hieratic simplified this form by symbolizing and conventionalizing to a large extent the hieroglyphic characters.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
Decadence is more manifest in the restriction and conventionalizing of the material of tragedy.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
Art for art, insisted upon in this way, could only end in conventionalizing the very thing it was meant to assist.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
As to what Davidson might have become under the conventionalizing influences of an official position, it would be idle to speculate.
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
Further, the restricted action of Rowe's play causes a conventionalizing of the characters.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
