conventionality

Jonathan Richman’s band displays a “willful lack” of commercial instinct, the Heads assert a “willful conventionality” to their stage appearance, Johnny Ramone is a “willfully obnoxious” guitarist and so on.

The cast is strong enough to sell us on the movie’s idea of love, even when it bends conventionality into a balloon animal.

Altemeyer has emphasized that the right-wing authoritarian harbors a peculiar mix of traits: aggression, submissiveness and conventionality.

The last thing her fans might have expected from a Britney Spears musical is dutiful conventionality.

Or maybe it has more to do with Lana’s use of convention to smash conventionality.