conventionalize
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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 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Whichever group may be the oldest the art is there already advanced and the decoration has taken forms which must have occupied many kinds of workers to conventionalize from natural objects.”
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
They're just going to disorganize me, conventionalize me completely.
From This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
"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 Knight, Melvin Moses
To the true romance the idea of marriage is at first repugnant, will not be thought about, for it seeks to square and conventionalize a great burst of the spirit.
From Hempfield A Novel by Grayson, David
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
In the same spirit, Gainsborough conventionalized his country genre scenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
For instance, the fondant can be molded into cups of conventionalized flower designs.
From Candy-Making Revolutionized Confectionery from Vegetables by Hall, Mary Elizabeth
Finally the hieratic simplified this form by symbolizing and conventionalizing to a large extent the hieroglyphic characters.
From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
Further, the restricted action of Rowe's play causes a conventionalizing of the characters.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
The modifying or conventionalizing forces are, therefore, quite vague.
From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by Holmes, William Henry
Decadence is more manifest in the restriction and conventionalizing of the material of tragedy.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
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
