conventionalities

Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness.

Because it’s a novel by Dag Solstad, none of these conventionalities are entered into.

This is writing of a high order, and Berlinski demonstrates a continuous awareness of those heights—his conventionalities are superior to many writers’ originalities.

All the conventionalities of a more artificial social life were reversed.

That is, she may be made supreme over the conventionalities of dress and the social customs that touch her life.