Time has turned a particular acting convention — a stylistic choice produced by Keaton's temperament and music-hall experience — into a universal philosophical statement.
In the B.K. era (before Karl), Republicans avoided New York for conventions, acting as though the gangs of New York were still wilding in Boss Tweed's streets.
She cannot leave and go to her family for support as she will bring shame on her family for acting outside social conventions.
All five Romney sons — Tagg, 42; Matt, 40; Josh, 37; Ben, 34 and Craig, 31 — will attend the Republican convention, acting as surrogates for their father.
He was also daring in his acting choices, challenging convention and the demands of stardom, sometimes stubbornly choosing the most offbeat roles, like "Birdman of Alcatraz".
In the case of sports card conventions, there are consumers seeking to buy cards and dealers hoping to sell cards for the best price, with the convention acting as an intermediary.
Over the next decade, Manet more or less dismantled the still life convention, acting out the reduction of form and meaning that is supposedly the essence of modernism, even while he echoed some of Chardin's most modest compositions.
Onstage, where conventions of acting and expectations of verisimilitude are different, this encounter might have worked better.
These rules may be conventions of writing, acting, or audience expectation.
And with the sound off, you can really see just how artificial the conventions of sitcom acting are: the telegraphed double-takes, the faux-angry declarations of the men, the perkiness of the women, etc., etc. – none of it resembling at all the way real people behave.
