Sentence examples for conventional stories from inspiring English sources

In the first scene in "The Golden Compass," Lyra quarrels with her daemon, Pantalaimon, about breaking the college rules, much as characters in more conventional stories might argue with their consciences.

With an exquisite control of time, she intricately reimagines — in meticulous detail — what most conventional stories leave out; for all the apparent banality of the action, the staging of it is a triumph of domestic choreography.

The Bradshaws' real malaise, which wasn't clear to Cusk yet, is the tyranny of conventional stories: the fates and the characters that we inherit, and to which we surrender our desires, along with our lives in the moment.

Although only now published together in book form, the earnest, straightforward, relatively conventional stories of "The Refugees" would appear to have been written before the more stylized and experimental "The Sympathizer".

Maybe some of us have grown weary of being hectored by films, by flashy images and loud music and conventional stories, however well told, that dictate what we should be feeling.

Most of them are not conventional "stories" — they usually feature people who are unnamed, are often set in unnamed towns or states, and lack the formal comportment of a story that opens, rises, and closes (or fails to close, in an acceptably modern way).

It's a stirring and conventional story.

That became the conventional story.

Devaivre's is the more conventional story.

Its a conventional story of bootstraps and good intentions.

Everyone knows the conventional story about American spending habits.