Sentence examples for conventional styles of from inspiring English sources

Otherwise, conventional styles of one kind or another prevail.

University Challenge (which started as an activity for American soldiers; in Jeremy Paxman's words, "a way to keep servicemen from their more conventional styles of recreation") gives us "your starter for 10"; Mastermind (based on a BBC producer's harrowing memories of his three years as a Gestapo prisoner-of-war) "I've started so I'll finish".

What the students share, besides a love of books, is a disdain for the conventional style of education.

The novel is mesmerizing; it marks a sharp break from the conventional style of Cusk's previous work.

"She mixes the conventional style of Robinson Valentine with the perfect proportions and sensuality of Philip's millinery," says doyenne of style Isabella Blow.

She disapproves of the conventional style of philosophical prose, which she describes as "scientific, abstract, hygienically pallid," and disengaged with the problems of its time.

Wilson was not a modernist (a term he despised), as the conventional style of his own poetry and fiction makes plain.

It's a shame that Eagling then reverts to a more conventional style of modern choreography, and that his carefully accumulated tensions unravel rather than resolve.

He says that he's not a "conventional" style of ballroom dancer.

Shakespeare's first plays were written in the conventional style of the day.

Dick Armin said, "[U2] were interested in using strings, but not in the conventional style of sweetening.