conventionalize

Example Sentences

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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 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

"It is the incessant, continuous pressure of the herd ... to conventionalize its methods of acquiring the gratification of its needs."

From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Knight, Melvin Moses

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 Nuttall, Zelia

They're just going to disorganize me, conventionalize me completely.

From This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

It was as if she had secretly determined—God knows from what pressure of lonely sorrow—to conventionalize her life, to present the world hereafter nothing but an even surface of unobtrusive conformity.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson