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
The last thing her fans might have expected from a Britney Spears musical is dutiful conventionality.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023
Or maybe it has more to do with Lana’s use of convention to smash conventionality.
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023
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
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