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"I thought it was only women who were privileged to change their mind," she began brightly; but Arkwright ignored her attempt to conventionalize the situation.

From Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

We do not separate the features as frequently as did that ancient people, but we conventionalize them as often.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay

Whichever group may be the oldest the art is there already advanced and the decoration has taken forms which must have occupied many kinds of workers to conventionalize from natural objects.”

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall

I like to draw from flowers and leaves and things about me; conventionalize them sometimes, and sometimes paint them just as they are,—in soft silk stitches.

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To the true romance the idea of marriage is at first repugnant, will not be thought about, for it seeks to square and conventionalize a great burst of the spirit.

From Hempfield A Novel by David Grayson

They're perfectly legitimate to study and they're interesting, but the reason I'm less interested in them is because they're conventionalized.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023

There are displays, often conventionalized within the norms of a culture: displays of power, strength, wealth, beauty, generosity, cleverness, and social status.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2013

He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib.”

From Slate ● May 18, 2013

The failure of conventionalized reason to explain two world wars or Jungian voyages into the unconscious must seem tragic as well as absurd.

From Time Magazine Archive

The iris, charming in nature and no less decorative in its conventionalized form, appears here and there in the carved woodwork and always gives a delicate twist to the Colonial design it embellishes.

From Remodeled Farmhouses by Mary H. Northend

The modifying or conventionalizing forces are, therefore, quite vague.

From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by William Henry Holmes

Finally the hieratic simplified this form by symbolizing and conventionalizing to a large extent the hieroglyphic characters.

From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar

Art for art, insisted upon in this way, could only end in conventionalizing the very thing it was meant to assist.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

The Arundel Society have published some meritorious plates of this kind from Angelico,—not, however, paying respect enough to the local colors, but conventionalizing the whole too much into outline.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin

Further, the restricted action of Rowe's play causes a conventionalizing of the characters.

From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike