Sentence examples for conventional affair from inspiring English sources
Iris is a slight, conventional affair by Maysles's standards, and a touch repetitive – endless bolts of fabric and panoplies of costume jewellery laid out for our appreciation.
Katie Sarah Parrishh) was having a pretty conventional affair with a married bloke, who got ill and died - and she's a GP, so helped him along.
Young Winston was a more stolid, conventional affair than Oh What a Lovely War, but it set Attenborough on the path of the epic film-making in which he came to specialise.
Though it may have been a strait-laced and conventional affair at first - Longfellow and De la Mare, Kipling and Constable caught the young composer's eye - it soon blossomed, with the encouragement of WH Auden, into a far less adolescent interest in modernist poetry.
(Nor can her own quirkiness be disregarded: how many other artists of similar stature have posted videos in which they interview a fish via Skype?) Thus, instead of a conventional affair at Carnegie Hall, or even a chic night at Le Poisson Rouge, Ms. Hahn gathered her flock into a cramped brick space on an unseasonably warm evening.
There is not much time left ("super Tuesday", with many states simultaneously in play, is on 1 March) for them to emerge as the mainstream alternative to the Cruz-Trump show before the contest eventually thins into a more conventional affair.
This was perhaps because lately most of the music documentaries I have seen have been cleaner, more conventional affairs – John Scheinfeld's excellent Harry Nilsson: The Missing Beatle, for instance, which interviewed the songwriter's family, friends and associates, and drew on archive footage, home movies and personal photographs to build a portrait.
So while conventional math teaching is often a highly formal affair, with an emphasis on definitions, theorems, and proofs, Mahajan believes we should learn practical math tools and understand why they work.
They had to borrow $1,500 for the wedding, a conventional church affair.
That insistence fades in a movie that is itself largely a conventional, wan affair, despite its art-cinema flourishes, like scenes that start and end in medias res.
I think it's love at first sight, but it's not a conventional love affair, it's far more mysterious than that". Davies, whose past credits include Queer as Folk and The Second Coming, said that the key to scaring and gripping today's pre-teens was rooting the show in reality.
