Sentence examples for conventional figure from inspiring English sources

For "Bodysnatchers," Yorke began alone, playing a short, bluesy riff — a surprisingly conventional figure.

He's a much less conventional figure than Celia Johnson's husband in Brief Encounter.

The proposed figure is adapted from ΦTC, the most commonly used conventional figure of merit, with two changes.

To some, synchronized skating packs more action and is even more interesting than conventional figure skating.

The Jesus who appears in early Rembrandts is a fairly conventional figure, true to earlier northern European icon paintings.

Mr. Fletcher -- the least conventional figure here and himself a gift to contemporary art -- might say that art lies in the giving and receiving itself, not in the object.

These and the rest are essentally conventional figures and, of course, Death is a kind of convention too.

Using conventional figures of merit, design parameters were evaluated for count rate performance, module dead time, and construction complexity.

Later at art school in Berlin, Mr Grass progressed from carving conventional figures to out-sized statues of animals.

Conventional figures of merit often characterize the optical and electrical properties of transparent conductive thin films and are widely applied in research and industry.

Their Maiwar campaign has received backing from one of the more prominent and less conventional figures of the Australian corporate landscape: the Wotif co-founder Graeme Wood.