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.
(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.
She works on media placement, media relations, conventional public affairs, and writing.
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.
He felt that the relationship between the two characters was "love at first sight" although in a more mysterious fashion than a conventional love affair.
A more negative review of the film came from Manohla Dargis of The New York Times, who found it "a conventional, wan affair, despite its art-cinema flourishes" and thought that Anna's inability to obtain a visa was a contrived plot point that conflicted with Doremus's attempt at creating realism.
