Sentence examples for conventional character from inspiring English sources
And the more conventional character treatment is just that: disappointingly conventional.
In place of language and conventional character portrayal, which is also undermined, are other kinds of artifice.
By acknowledging the conventional character of agency independence, U.S. courts can incorporate ideas from the courts of Commonwealth legal systems that harmonize conventions with written rules of law.
The existence of similar figures of different size, or the conventional character of units of length, appeared self-evident to mathematicians of the period.
Classical serviceability criteria for wind-induced accelerations are discussed pointing out their conventional character and unreliability due to the uncertain knowledge of structural damping.
Both men were trying to develop a modern realistic drama, but neither had the power to break away from the type of artificial plots and conventional character types expected by theatregoers.
But in person Mr. Lithgow, who has an equally long résumé of conventional characters and a sideline in making recordings for children, is disappointingly normal.
In the 10 plays, conventional characters - an executive and his secretary, a husband and a wife -appear in unusual predicaments, or outlandish characters - Mickey Mouse in his 50's - figure in everyday situations.
Eugène Ionesco's 1952 absurdist classic is a bit like that, too, ditching as it does conventional characters, psychology and plot in favour of rootless, puzzling moments of being.
Playfully elliptical, without plot or conventional characters, the book sold two million copies and transformed Brautigan into a libidinous Mark Twain for the new counterculture: a distinctly American voice that was so of its moment that it had nowhere to go but into a time capsule.
Many of her characters exhibited modern-day sensibilities; more conventional characters in the novels would point out the heroine's eccentricities, such as wanting to marry for love.
