Sentence examples for conventionally good from inspiring English sources

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"A conventionally good character will always do the moral, right thing.

Casting directors may not spot how conventionally good looking he could be.

"Best" does not always apply here in regard of traditional professional polish or even conventionally good acting.

In most traditions this breakthrough is held to be unattainable through a conventionally good life in society, and thus a new approach must be sought.

These crime novels are not self-consciously deep — or even conventionally good at giving the thrill of a case well solved — though they are certainly eager to show that they know things.

Those earliest psychopaths that Mr. Dafoe portrayed — a gang leader in "Streets of Fire," a ruthless counterfeiter in "To Live and Die in L.A". — were crucial to his cinematic breakthrough in the 1980s, even if they were the stock characters an actor gets offered, he said, "if you weren't conventionally good looking, or you don't have a winning, chatty personality".

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He was short, conventionally good-looking, and somewhat vacant.

The Nick Cleggs are the hardest to do – bland, conventionally good-looking faces.

Colbert seems too bland in a way — too sane and too conventionally good-looking — to be a great comic performer.

Meanwhile, Mr Dishy Newsreader – for some reason, I had never realised how conventionally good-looking Ulrik is – decided to get his own back on Benedikte.

With his baby face and lugubrious expression, Mays may joke he's "not your conventionally good-looking guy" – but it would be lovely to see him play a flirt.

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