Sentence examples for conventional format from inspiring English sources

Ionesco once described "The Bald Soprano" and "The Lesson" as plays that both possessed "a conventional format - scenes, dialogue, characters - but no psychology".

Current, meanwhile, began as a groundbreaking effort to promote user-generated content, and settled into a more conventional format of political talk television with a liberal bent.

Either you have to reformulate what's become quite a conventional format or you just need to write songs that are so good that they transcend it.

Had Walbert tried to force her material into a more conventional format, the result would very likely have been diffuse and flat.

Proponents say this system is more efficient than the conventional format for carrying telephone calls, called circuit switching, which uses a dedicated connection that remains open for the duration of the call.

Rather than take chances, Mr. Ollestad falls back on the conventional format of cross-cutting, so that chapters about his pre-catastrophe childhood alternate with short, crisp, impressionistic glimpses of the plane crash and its aftermath.

Nor does it slot itself into conventional formats.

Looking partly to the success that CBS has had with more conventional formats, many of the newer shows are steering clear of the experimentation of recent years.

Music sales on CD's and other conventional formats ranged from 0.2 billion to 1.2 billion units, not from 2.0 billion to 1.2 billion units.

For some companies, though, it could serve increasingly as a promotional or marketing outlet, or as a cut-rate but widely distributed version of what consumers can buy in conventional formats.

The current "Pirates," which was released in both 3-D and conventional formats, was helped from large-screen Imax sales of $16.7 million worldwide - an opening-weekend record, Imax said.