conventionality

Example Sentences

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But when intellectuals refuse to render moral judgments, when they sink into safe conventionality, that in itself is a kind of judgment.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

Maes, meanwhile, grew up bucking against a “controlling mother,” Kapur writes, and the narrow conventionality of Flanders.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021

I suspect that inside the impenetrable fortress of conventionality he’s become, there’s one crazy-ass museum.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson