I knew I'd want to reread them, but I also purchased them for a less conventional reason: so I could look at their bindings on my shelf.
Not because she had found me repulsive in the fluorescent light of the hospital, but for a more conventional reason: She missed her ex-boyfriend.
But Yidam offers an additional, and less conventional reason -- the protective effect of a clay amulet that the Dalai Lama had distributed throughout Tibet just before his flight to India.
The conventional reason buyers accept low initial yields is that they expect to collect higher rents in the near future, as leases come up for renewal.
The intricacy with which paper cups are joined together and reversed or a children's table converted into metallic crochet, reinforce the architectures of a very personal dreamland, not unlike the shifting-sliding world of Latin magical realism that taught the depleted Cartesians to suspect the surfaces of conventional reason.
I met with Teju Ravilochan, co-founder and CEO of the Institute, to learn more about his work and why, as Teju says, entrepreneurs should have the courage to be "unreasonable" and do things that conventional reason tells us we shouldn't do.
She understands, for example, that suits are back in fashion, and that many women, possibly even she herself, will want to wear one, but she rejects the conventional reasons -- power, glamour, a sense of security -- being given in the fashion world.
Conventional reasons for unmet need were supplemented by an additional category ('no healthcare voucher issued by welfare agency') to suit German regulations for access to care for AS.
For conventional reasons and ease of interpretation, both scales were converted to a seven-point scale after all data were collected.
(Plenty of cancellations and delays have happened for more conventional reasons, too: U2put off its North American dates to allow Bono to recover from back surgery).
We decided that was brilliant and never once puzzled over why, if we had it in us to do that in the name of sabotage, we had never managed to do it for more conventional reasons.
