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
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
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
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
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
These conventionalities are accented by pleasant dialog which attains such epigrammatic heights as: "Children should be the result of love, not love the result of children."
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
