Sentence examples for basic conventions from inspiring English sources

Basic conventions are being discarded.

In Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides deliberately violates one of the basic conventions of narrative fiction.

Basic conventions were first collected and set down in the 1880s by the French fencing master Camille Prevost.

In doing so, Isabelle ignores basic conventions that have been developed over the years to make the medium work.

Other strips, notably Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" and the weekly hallucinations of Lyonel Feininger, challenged basic conventions of narrative and design.

Metal Gear Solid, of course, popularised the stealth concept in 1998, introducing millions of gamers to the basic conventions of this then formative genre.

It is not until 1958, and the triumphant debut of Christopher Lee in the part, that the basic convention is made current.

"The basic convention of offsetting made a lot more sense when it came to the exchange of goods and services," said Tom Selling, publisher of The Accounting Onion, a Web site about accounting.

If they fail to fulfill that basic convention, all the other virtues to which they reach will fall short.

The acting is risible, sure, and the attitude toward basic filmmaking conventions blasé, almost insolent.

Its replacement in 1979, a more traditional topographical version, reintroduced all the basic map conventions (including blue water) and, most important, the New York City street grid.