social conventions
Example Sentences
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The film is the latest in a naturally evolving project for Krieps of playing women throughout history who reject the social conventions of their times.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023
In terms of social conventions, it's so far in the past.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2023
We assessed how sensitive children were to social conventions about how they should behave.
From Scientific American • Jul. 14, 2023
But in cutting and modernizing the language, Herzog does not make the mistake of trashing the social conventions that create the drama in the first place.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023
The conventional wisdom at the time held that expressions were culturally determined—that is, we simply used our faces according to a set of learned social conventions.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
