Sentence examples for conventional idea from inspiring English sources

"The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change," Sir Arthur pointed out.

He simply did not fit its conventional idea of art.

Prismatic, polymorphous, scintillating and starkly angular, they defy the conventional idea of a boxy or stepped New York skyscraper.

The conventional idea is that companies are fine as long as they earn some "normal profits" that satisfy their owners.

Wade is working in what by now is a pretty venerable tradition, against the conventional idea of painting".

That experience led David to question the conventional idea of a simple split between hunter-gatherers and farmers, and to challenge it in a series of publications.

We're talking about his book, Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen to Music Now, which suggests we should do away with conventional ideas of genres and become more flexible as listeners.

But they don't just explode conventional ideas about mime.

Little boys are very conventional, and I had very conventional ideas.

"I'm doing something next which will really challenge conventional ideas.

But if you use conventional ideas about valuation, today's stock prices look very high.