conventionality
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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
Or maybe it has more to do with Lana’s use of convention to smash conventionality.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
Maes, meanwhile, grew up bucking against a “controlling mother,” Kapur writes, and the narrow conventionality of Flanders.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
In her first book, Moran occasionally came across as someone who bashed others for their bad taste or conventionality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2020
Being Goth wipes away any expectation of conventionality, so Molly finds she’s free to be weird in lots of ways at once.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
Because it’s a novel by Dag Solstad, none of these conventionalities are entered into.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
A fawning Harvard Business Review case study published in 2017 cast conventionalities like “paying full-time salaries and being focused on traditional employment” as “substantial disadvantages.”
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2018
This is writing of a high order, and Berlinski demonstrates a continuous awareness of those heights—his conventionalities are superior to many writers’ originalities.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
