Sentence examples for bonds of convention from inspiring English sources

Pierre and Agnès, each promised to another by their overbearing families, break the tight bonds of convention and marry.

Unlike Zuckerman, Seth can't place art before life; he can't free himself from the bonds of convention and family in pursuit of his art.

Actors in a social theater, as we all are, they rise above the ordinary by giving sartorial performances unfettered by the bonds of convention or propriety or practicality or, often enough, common sense.

The bonds of convention, prudery and ideological correctness imposed on domestically made movies seem all the more outdated considering some of the Hollywood films that are approved for showing -- and which are clobbering domestic films at the box office.

The Los Angeles Times ' Charles Solomon included Belle among the four Disney princesses who broke "the bonds of convention".

After reading just a few chapters, a reader might wonder if Sarah is well on her way to fulfilling one of historical fiction's most popular stereotypes: the feisty girl who shakes the bonds of convention, persuades others around her to change their ways and, eventually, finds love.

It was as if weighing the anchor of his homeland meant that Kundera had also freed himself from the bonds of formal convention.

The initial (1996) use of convention was limited to certain elements such as bond to represent the different values that different communities might use.

Baltimore, $301 million of revenue bonds for the convention center hotel.

Not for her the demands of convention.

His defiance of convention was his downfall.