Sentence examples for conventional history from inspiring English sources

The conventional history of modern art is a fiction.

Conventional history tells us that no such machine was built; Flynn knows otherwise.

I recalled that the title evoked unknown groups of subversives, forgotten by conventional history.

Their detail can be fascinating; they offer colour that is often missing from conventional history.

Students will be taught prehistory as well as conventional history, the whole presented as the living world's greatest epic.

The first head of state to be tried for war crimes, Mr. Milosevic today also turned much conventional history on its head.

Carney challenges conventional histories, which describe Europeans adapting an Asian crop to American uses.

Conventional histories of the Second World War remain focussed on the European theatre from 1939 and the Pacific one from December , 1941

Oña, a native of the region, is named in conventional histories of literature as the first great Chilean poet.

Like d'Azevedo, a marvelous creation, Mr. Galbraith's other characters, many of them recognizable from more conventional histories, bustle with bilious individuality and Rabelaisian energy.

Many conventional histories reveal that mutilation and torture were routine forms of punishment for infractions that today would result in a fine.