Perhaps some readers flinch from the novelist's flouting of realist convention in parts of The Falls.
Yet there is an early and influential precedent for Eugenides's apparently "postmodern" flouting of convention.
The antics and flouting of convention, like the clapping that the nationalists have brought to Westminster from Holyrood, may soon pall.
While reading a biography of Franz Liszt, with whom Montez had had an affair, Mr. Seymour was captivated by her audacity and flouting of convention.
So incensed is Elaine by this flouting of convention that she buys her a bra for her birthday, only to find that, to her utter infuriation, Sue Ellen is wearing it with a blazer and nothing else.
A lovingly rendered, subtly acerbic portrait of New York City's upper crust in the late 19th century, the film revolves around the unconsummated love affair between sensitive lawyer Newland Archer Daniell Day-Lewis) and Countess Ellen Olenska Michelle Pfeifferr), whose separation from her brutish husband and general flouting of convention are a scandal proper society cannot tolerate.
People who do not read poetry will think of Millay's story as the archetypal Poet's Life -- the obscure beginnings, the firework rise to fame, the flouting of convention, the tangle of sex and drugs, the haywire slump, the forsaken end.
What other pseudo-anarchic flouting of convention would make for good television?
The Obama administration has elected to ignore any flouting of the UN drug conventions of 1961, 1971 and 1988, which require countries to prohibit the use, possession and supply of cannabis, although the US justice department has warned against allowing children to obtain the drug and profits going to criminal gangs.
Telegraph chatter often linked Shelby to Quantrill, and accused the independent cavalry of flouting the conventions of war.
