Sentence examples for a new conventional from inspiring English sources

In our current post-character-actor moment, Hoffman was creating a new conventional style for younger actors to react against, just as Pacino had for the previous generation.

AS THE embers of this month's mid-term elections are raked over, a new conventional wisdom is emerging in Washington, DC.

Meanwhile the engines of growth at home, according to a new conventional wisdom, are the hundreds of thousands of small businesses whose struggles in recent years have become a focus for policymakers.

Scott Walker, the new Republican governor of Wisconsin, killed a new conventional passenger train line that was to be built between Milwaukee and Madison, and paid for with $810 million in federal stimulus money.

And there is a new, conventional crime fighter in town: the handsome, dashing district attorney Harvey Dent, played by Aaron Eckhart, a man who believes that the rule of law has to be upheld by a democratically accountable person, not some shadowy figure of the night.

In Washington, whose establishment repeatedly and inaccurately predicted that the entire country would demand Mr. Clinton's ouster with each new revelation of the Monica Lewinsky saga, there's a new conventional wisdom: This time, really, truly, definitely, everyone has shunned the former president, and America is basking in the new civility of Mr. Bush.

That research is part of a rapidly coalescing new conventional wisdom: These are the women who will redeem America.

Allow me to suggest a heretical thought, a violation of the new conventional wisdom.

Among AOSIS' recommendations are a ban on building new conventional coal-fired power plants and for governments to set a price on carbon to penalize emissions.

Those threats, Mr. Obama argued, could be deterred with "a series of graded options," a combination of old and new conventional weapons.

Robert W. Merry's book is a refreshing challenge to the new conventional wisdom.