The show's protagonist, Kevin Abstract (née Ian Simpson), is not what one imagines a conventional boy-band member to be.
During the next 24 hours, the span of Margaret Mahy's novel, a straitlaced, privileged, conventional boy who craves adventure learns about the darker side of life.
"Vincent in Brixton" may have a conventional structure — boy meets girl, girl loses boy — but it is those conventions that free ten Haaf and Higgins to develop an unconventional and striking intensity of their own.
Although he looked like a conventional cheeky-boy dummy, Charlie Brown had an unusual personality.
Seftel concluded that, despite Ehrenhaft's "reach at times [exceeding] his grasp," The Last Dog on Earth was "an interesting and absorbing variation" of the slightly conventional "boy-and-his-dog story".
Despite the fact of having of having four lesbian mothers (in a complicated arrangement), the author writes about a conventional girl meets boy, loses herself, and gets dumped scenario.
"I was a pretty conventional little boy and, to me, it seemed like a world that was fabulous".
Fellow would-be teen sensation Simon Turner was a more conventional pretty boy.
Comment on a decision of the Iowa Supreme Court awarding the custody of a 7-year-old boy named Mark Painter to his grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Bannister, rather than to his father, Harold W. Painter, on the group that the Bannisters could provide the boy with "a conventional middle-class, Middle West background," where as the father might expose him to an "arty bohemian sort of life".
I was the new boy standing on the burning deck of union agreement and Gerry was more than a conventional MD.
