Sentence examples for conventional past from inspiring English sources

The more conventional past tense implies a completed action, something that's over and therefore has a shape.

Michelangelo Antonioni's sensational break with a more conventional past famously came with L'Avventura in 1960, but here in 1964, with his first colour movie (now re-released for the director's centenary) was where the Antonioni 60s really began.

"The Goon Show," in which he and Milligan teamed up with Harry Secombe, was to comedy what Elvis Presley was to pop music -- a quantum leap forward, a permanent and irreparable rupture with a staid and conventional past and, more personally, a discovery of my own that could not be shared with anyone of an older generation.

This method will push a conventional barbecue past its normal temperature limits - so hot that it's even possible to melt the grill itself.

If you don't have a torque wrench, the pressure equivalent is basically one complete turn with a conventional wrench past what is considered "hand-tight".

Mr. Jobs has walked quickly and surely past conventional wisdom.

He is kind, fair and tender-hearted, able to move past conventional beliefs in order to see the bigger picture.

At 68, Mr. Peel is past conventional rock 'n' roll retirement age, but why retire if you can rock?

But he often moves toward traditional rhythms; lines fall into conventional parameters: O past! O happy life!

In the past, conventional chemical and physical based pretreatment was utilized to reduce fouling of RO membranes.

He would look past conventional leftwingers such as Bill de Blasio, New York's mayor, and emulate reformers such as Matteo Renzi, prime minister of Italy, and Enrique Peña Nieto, the Mexican president.