"The closest competitors are conventional methods of concreting.
In the hands of a less accomplished writer, such disregard for conventional methods of storytelling might prove frustrating.
Conventional methods of raising power output — adding camshafts and valves to let the engine breathe easier, for example — have been employed alongside refinements in electronic control systems.
The effect, Southern decides, is that "the characters and story come alive in an almost incredible way, quite beyond anything achieved by conventional methods of writing".
The FDA approved the devices for use only with more conventional methods of taking someone's temperature, such as a mercury thermometer or color-changing strips.
The shape of his tree is unsurprising -- it arranges the Indo-European languages in much the same way as linguists do, using conventional methods of comparison.
The task was especially difficult because La Farge worked in an encaustic medium--a mingling of wax&oil--that conventional methods of cleaning would've damaged.
Rejecting the tempered scale and the conventional methods of formal transposition, he composed and played using a self-invented technique he called "harmolodics".
To the frustration of investigators, conventional methods of genetic fingerprinting have so far failed to distinguish among the various stocks of Ames anthrax possessed by the different laboratories.
Thus, in the spell of his own imagination the characters and story come alive in an almost incredible way, quite beyond anything achieved by conventional methods of writing".
Forget the massacre of thousands in Syria and Egypt, whether by chemical weapons or more conventional methods of mass slaughter.
