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

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

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