Sentence examples for conventional background from inspiring English sources

In the ancient theatre the skene was merely a conventional background.

I ask Abbott if he thinks he would have been as good a writer if he had come from a more conventional background.

Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses".

Poet made a good start to his new career at Newbury, but preference for now is for one with a rather more conventional background in Melodic Rendezvous (2.25).

They hadn't had the luxury of private lessons, like some other music pupils, but you could see they were good at putting ideas together and making a sound for themselves – possibly because they didn't have that conventional background.

Lady and Gentleman in Landscape is more Frenchified, with its vivacious Rococo rhythms, but Heneage Lloyd and His Sister is more stylized, the charming little figures being posed against a conventional background of steps and decorative urns.

Instead, they are often left to search for themselves among a variety of treatments offered by health carers with both alternative and conventional backgrounds.

As it turns out, medical schools are looking to diversify their programs, so they are starting to accept more students with less conventional backgrounds that include degrees in fields such as humanities.

Perhaps that alarmed the Co-op Group's new chief executive, Euan Sutherland, who comes from a conventional retail background.

"The team of scientists that produced this remarkable object don't come from a conventional design background.

In the conventional methods, background subtraction and temporal difference have been widely used for foreground extraction in case of using stationary cameras.