Sentence examples for conventional period from inspiring English sources
"But this is not a conventional period piece.
Boswell had been approached to score the film because of his wide-ranging experience, taking in horror as well as more conventional period films.
The brash flat-shaded visuals and funk jam soundtrack accentuate the exploitation feel, and there is some brilliantly dark humour hiding behind more conventional period references.
The only chaos connected with this stultifyingly orderly and conventional period film must be the chaos now reigning in the offices of Matthias Schoenaerts's agent.
That is not enough to pronounce the country polio-free three clear years are the conventional polio-free threefor that to happen.
Come Sunday, when Oscars are bestowed, the award will go to one in a lineup of more reliably conventional period fare, films that include "Bright Star," "Nine" and "Coco Before Chanel".
In this study, conventional periods of submerged healing were chosen: 3 months in the mandible and 6 months in the maxilla.
"People were like, 'Oh, it's very interesting,' but there was this sense that it was almost too radical to fit into the conventional period-piece mold," Westmoreland told me.
The show is not a conventional museum period survey.
What looks at first like an conventional Brit period drama about royals is actually a witty and elegant new perspective on the abdication crisis and on the dysfunctional quiver at the heart of the Windsors and of prewar Britain.
(Martha Schwendener) ★ Brooklyn Museum: 'Materializing "Six Years": Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art' (through Feb. 17) This big, intellectually enthralling exhibition of Conceptual works from the 1960s and early '70s is not a conventional museum period survey.
