conventionality
Example Sentences
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But the Met’s desperation for conventionality — read accessibility — never quite recedes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
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
Isaacs’s Jay has processed his loss by throwing himself into action and activism, which bears more than a little resemblance to the task-oriented conventionality of Birney’s Richard.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2021
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
