Sentence examples for conventional figures from inspiring English sources

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

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

For all these numbers differ significantly from the conventional figures that are bandied about when the number of human genes is discussed in public.

Even the juvenile leads, who had usually been thinly conceived conventional figures, are now often more complicated in their makeup and less easily rewarded by good fortune.

But they are conventional figures with an enormous difference, one that comes partly from remarkable casting and acting: the lean, gentle knight and his mighty, noble, utterly disillusioned squire are, in their quite distinct ways, imposing to a degree.

Those conventional figures suggest that the answer is in the 80,000-100,000 range—although participants in a sweepstake at a recent genomics meeting in Cold Spring Harbour, New York, favoured a figure around 60,000.

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.

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.