conventions

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This constitutes what is now called “practical monetarism”—an updated form of monetarism that brings lessons from the past into contact with the accepted conventions of the present.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Bloom’s first foray into crime fiction nails the genre’s conventions while her bona fides as a recently retired professor of English and psychotherapist in mid-state Connecticut make this book resonate as spot-on, hilarious truth.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

It’s about the conventions of the spy thriller and the tweaking of the espionage-terrorist-imperiled-witness-hostage story into something new.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

But where its cinematic peers get snared by trying to elucidate the truth of the pop star, Lowery’s film skates past the conventions and trappings, landing on something high-concept but deceptively straightforward.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

Remember we always planned to attend one of the conventions but we never did.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers