conventionalize
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It was as if she had secretly determined—God knows from what pressure of lonely sorrow—to conventionalize her life, to present the world hereafter nothing but an even surface of unobtrusive conformity.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd
They're just going to disorganize me, conventionalize me completely.
From This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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
"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
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
You get a highly conventionalized narrative of golden oldies that seems both too extensive and not extensive enough.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is unquestionably the finest example of native art, either Tlingit or Tsimshian, in Alaska, in boldness of conception,—although highly conventionalized in form,—in execution of detail, and in the selection and arrangement of colors.
From The Whale House of the Chilkat by George T. Emmons
Further, the restricted action of Rowe's play causes a conventionalizing of the characters.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
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
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
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 William Henry Holmes
The Arundel Society have published some meritorious plates of this kind from Angelico,—not, however, paying respect enough to the local colors, but conventionalizing the whole too much into outline.
From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin
