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

The failure of conventionalized reason to explain two world wars or Jungian voyages into the unconscious must seem tragic as well as absurd.

From Time Magazine Archive

It forms one of the foundation stones of the art, second only in importance to the conventionalized symbols of the different nations.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber