Sentence examples for a conventional idea from inspiring English sources

"The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change," Sir Arthur pointed out.

"They are thinking more in terms of creating their own kinds of life that interests them, rather than following a conventional idea of success and job security".

"I mean, it's a very conventional idea of what a record should do.

Baker's Son employs a more conventional idea of Pop art with the zestful playfulness, surrealism, and humor of a Wayne Thiebaud or Mel Ramos.

But she had an uncharacteristically conventional idea of marriage, and after meeting David always defined herself first and foremost as a wife and mother.

"In a sense this is a reversal of the conventional idea of the national pavilion; instead of presenting British architecture, we've tried to show the openness of British architecture to outside ideas".

This paper proposes a new concept of the 'engineering surface', which extends the conventional idea of a functional surface by combining it with micro/nano manufacturing technology.

(Not the most conventional idea of a pick-me-up, perhaps, but Roth, a lover of chamber music and of Shostakovich, says, "I wanted him to hear something beautiful").

Prismatic, polymorphous, scintillating and starkly angular, they defy the conventional idea of a boxy or stepped New York skyscraper.

That experience led David to question the conventional idea of a simple split between hunter-gatherers and farmers, and to challenge it in a series of publications.

Most importantly, and most influentially perhaps, Cézanne consciously subverted the history of western perspective, which is based on the conventional idea of a single vanishing point seen from one point of view.