Sentence examples for conventional attitudes from inspiring English sources

Joplin was making it in the psychedelic 60s, which promoted very conventional attitudes in the white rock-and-pop mainstream about male heroes and demurely attractive women.

But conventional attitudes lingered on, as most women still preferred small but real gems (especially that diamond engagement ring) to the bolder fakes.

It doesn't seem to occur to anyone that this particular flavour of contempt for the suburbs is one of the most conventional attitudes anyone could adopt.

It's only when his characters bypass conventional attitudes about what counts as professional and unabashedly mix business and pleasure, love and money, practical ambition and romantic desire, that they can both recognize their passions and fulfill them.

It is this constant element of paradox in all the nuclear strategies and in the conventional attitudes toward them that Kubrick transformed into the principal theme of "Dr. Strangelove".

She recalls her frustration as an adolescent, that her parents, against whom she had every God-given right to rebel, tended to giggle in private about her own conventional attitudes.

The conventional attitude, that Soave was a synonym for insipid, was out of date, I felt, and needed to be re-evaluated.

When it began, in the late nineteen-nineties, the island's forty-three haddred inhabitants had what might be described as a conventional attitude toward energy: as long as it continued to arrive, they weren't much interested in it.

Once again, on encountering the hydrogen bond, one encounters a twist in the conventional attitude; the question raised by this interpretation is not why such a bond occurs but why it does not occur more generally.

We must not say so," he wrote in "Dream Song 14," admitting his own boredom, juxtaposing it against the conventional attitude of the time: " 'Ever to confess you're bored / means you have no / Inner Resources.' " The poem's speaker goes on to confess that he's "heavy bored," with people, with art and with literature, "especially great literature".

The designed compensator can easily be implemented for a conventional attitude control system.