conventionalized

Example Sentences

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They're perfectly legitimate to study and they're interesting, but the reason I'm less interested in them is because they're conventionalized.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2023

There are displays, often conventionalized within the norms of a culture: displays of power, strength, wealth, beauty, generosity, cleverness, and social status.

From Scientific American • Jul. 26, 2013

He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib.”

From Slate • May 18, 2013

"Belasco Collar" At Stony Brook, N. Y., where ministers held a conference last week, the Rev. A. C. Robertson of Louisville, Ky., denounced the conventionalized clothing that clergymen affect.

From Time Magazine Archive

All thinking, all intellectual activity, is by no means of the image and the picture; all words are the product of the imagining, and the very letters of the alphabet are conventionalized pictures.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)