conventionalities

Example Sentences

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Because it’s a novel by Dag Solstad, none of these conventionalities are entered into.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018

A fawning Harvard Business Review case study published in 2017 cast conventionalities like “paying full-time salaries and being focused on traditional employment” as “substantial disadvantages.”

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2018

This is writing of a high order, and Berlinski demonstrates a continuous awareness of those heights—his conventionalities are superior to many writers’ originalities.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016

These conventionalities are accented by pleasant dialog which attains such epigrammatic heights as: "Children should be the result of love, not love the result of children."

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë