I found his shaggy-dog day-in-the-life film of his Beat-poet friends, "Pull My Daisy," from 1959, and his long meditation on mental illness, love, family, and conventions of behavior, "Me and My Brother," from ten years later, beautiful and arresting.
On her view, a convention is a pattern of behavior reproduced within a population due largely to weight of precedent.
Sand was a fierce dissenter from her society's conventions of feminine behavior, but Ms. Binoche makes her, with Musset, patient, maternal and sensible.
It quickly became clear, however, that Colonel Qaddafi was no ordinary Arab leader who would live by the conventions of international behavior or decorum.
His approach trades on conventions of normative behavior and visual shorthand; it simultaneously shrinks characters to their dramatically functional traits and shrinks the depicted world to the ethnically, psychologically, intellectually, and morally narrow confines of executive suites and limos.
In Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil, the high frequency of pedestrian fatalities may be related to the influx of rural migrants into the city who are not accustomed to heavy traffic and the conventions of pedestrian behavior with the traffic.
These factors are generally regulated through governing formal and informal structures defined by codes of conduct, norms of behavior and conventions.
Because post-conventional individuals elevate their own moral evaluation of a situation over social conventions, their behavior, especially at stage six, can be confused with that of those at the pre-conventional level.
We cannot sit back and allow this type of behavior because of social convention or tradition.
His thought does not argue for a natural level of behavior upon which is superimposed an artificial, or cultural, convention.
None of that kind of behavior was on display at last weekend's RuPaul's DragCon, an annual drag convention with events in New York and Los Angeles.
