And he hasn't confined himself strictly to the conventions of his material.
This year's CPAC convention offered plenty of material for Jon Stewart to dig into, and throw some shade upon, from Paul Ryan's dubious "brown bag" anecdote to Wayne LaPierre's intro music (Huey Lewis' "The Power of Love").
Hotwives of Orlando has an eye for the rhythms and conventions of its source material that only someone who has spent an entire Sunday captivated by a marathon could possess.
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Coalition calls for a commitment by UN member states to develop a convention encouraging the integration of material sustainability issues within the annual report of all listed and large private companies (on report or explain basis).
Tarski's own name for this criterion of material adequacy was Convention T.
Grady and her team decided to go to Nashville in spite of the ban on their booth, to talk with individuals about their ministry and hand out their materials, but Grady now says she has been informed that security will be prohibiting the distribution of material in the convention facilities.
At times, the genre conventions (the material comes out of an early Dennis Lehane thriller) are at odds with the movie's authentic, lived-in look, but Affleck, as a director, has no fear of gazing into the abyss, and he gets some very good actors to follow him.
But it may be that the full measure of the real Felix Breazeale's life cannot be taken by a movie that stays safely within currently dominant conventions of storytelling and that wraps unruly material into a tidy narrative package.
Hume offers a rather cryptic argument to show that our approval of material honesty must be the product of collaborative human effort (convention).
The show requires considerable suspension of disbelief, and the gravity of the material can seem incongruous alongside the conventions of commercial broadcasts.
