Sentence examples for conventional man from inspiring English sources

Despite a taste for the occult, White was a conventional man, who obeyed the conventions of his time, and one of them was that if you were unfortunate enough to love your own sex — which he did — you controlled that information, and certainly didn't advertise it in your work.

Charles Darwin was a conventional man from an unconventional background.

This very conventional man enabled her to have a career.

And yet he is not a conventional man and certainly not a conventional Muslim.

Timothy Shelley, the poet's father, was a weak, conventional man who was caught between an overbearing father and a rebellious son.

Har Gopol who is a truly unremarkable and conventional man - it is his typical "Indianness" which intrigues Betsy - thinks she is mad.

Also proudly in the oddball camp is Sam Simmons, nominated for the second year in a row for Spaghetti for Breakfast, a riotously enjoyable series of visual jokes and surreal skits about things that get on his nerves that closes with a "screw-you" to conventional man-with-a-mic stand-up.

LG has announced a new, round Android Wear smartwatch with a conventional men's watch design.

They are, for the most part, deeply conventional men, who rose to the top of the military hierarchy by following orders and suppressing subversive thoughts.

His extra-human restlessness — he needed to be "perpetuum mobile," as he put it — made him one of the least conventional men on the planet.

"In his days in business, he dressed like an investment banker from Connecticut — shirt and jacket, tie or not, boring men's shoes, a short, conventional men's haircut.