The conventional phrase is that the Queen is "above politics".
"Sacred Taoist Dance," composed this year, hardly seemed a Glass work at all: instead of the repeated rippling figures that characterize Mr. Glass's music, it is couched in short, conventional phrases, with harmonies far less consonant than usual.
The best, an "Annunciation," merely "attributed to" the 17th-century Gérard Seghers, sold at the low estimate, for €7,435 — "attributed to" is a conventional phrase signaling that authorship is open to question.
The infelicity of Polybius' Greek (which frequently reproduces the conventional phrases of the Hellenistic chancelleries familiar from contemporary inscriptions) lies in its awkward use of long and cumbersome circumlocutions, vague abstract nouns, and pedantic repetitions.
As a long leave-taking sequence, made of conventional phrases ("Sorry you have to go so soon," "Thank you very much for everything"), is repeated in the final moments, it's clear that "1980" is about death and grief — and the strange bits and pieces of memory, social ritual and private madnesses that make up life.
To make it more acceptable he'd use a more conventional phrase like King of the Jews or some such.
Also the discovery that conventional phrase structure supports elegant compositional theories of meaning lends credence to the traditional theoretical methodology.
c) In some cases, spatial words are used as part of conventional phrases that have holistic meanings.
"Moore turns conventional phrases... into thinly-veiled warnings to some unknown subject," Reilly commented.
But adjectives like "ruby, russet, crimson" can add texture to the language and turn a conventional phrase like "a red pool of blood" into a more interesting phrase, like "a crimson pool of blood".
The fact is that Powell went beyond conventional political phrases.
