The conventions by tradition ring in the political high season for the news media.
Hamas violated the Geneva Conventions by launching rockets from residential neighborhoods and using civilians as human shields.
Ms. Gitlin's firm, Huelster Design Studio, has challenged conventions by marrying front porches with other home styles, even the Colonial.
Jammeh was in violation of Geneva conventions by failing to provide advance notice of the executions to the government in Dakar.
The way out was, homeopathically, the way back in: lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
Certainly the means by which it did this was postmodern: the film broke with old cinematic conventions by showing on the screen events that had not happened.
"Doomed" unmasked the absurdity of the conventions by which, through assuming the role of viewers, we are both blocked and immunized from ethical responsibility.
'Since the dawn of humanity, people have tried to ease sadness and break conventions by showing human beings their personality in a distorted mirror,' read the blurb.
In light of the brazen transgressions of the actual Geneva conventions by the Bush administration, this is probably not very reassuring to most Europeans.
"Most conventions, by the fourth night, you're papering over your differences so it looks like you're united," Mr. Wise, a Democrat, said.
Already with this first effort, then, Begley upended the simple literary conventions by which we presume to pin labels on elusive and shifting material.
