The evening session saw some extraordinary performances by young people from Leeds and Manchester: displays not just of verbal gymnastics and the feats of memory, but the enjoyment of language and the testing of poetic conventions, sometimes to breaking point.
I like to break conventions using my bike.
Later, I read Jean-Marie Dru's book Disruption, where the mantra was to break conventions.
You can almost hear the team members at the E.A. studio saying: "We don't need to go crazy trying to break conventions that aren't broken.
The Rembrandt show will be the first in-depth exploration of Rembrandt's late works, a time when his creativity and ambition to break conventions burned brighter than ever.
Mr. Zucker's performance with "Today" — which contributes as much as $600 million in advertising each year — led Mr. Wright to break conventions and put him in charge of entertainment.
Here is a man who is so resistant to the lures of tradition that he ignored the convention of backroom fixing to break cover and launch an attack on the unpopular former Commons Speaker Michael Martin, setting in train his downfall.
What is so fascinating about the subtext of the novel is that Trollope clearly wanted to break convention, both as a novelist and a man, but the prevailing opinions of his day proved too strong for him, just as they did for his heroine.
Madonna was famously one of the first entertainers to break convention when she wore a cone brassiere as outerwear during her 1990 Blond Ambition tour.
She dared to break convention by offering hope to girls like Agnes and Janet and the assurance that they deserved a chance to thrive once they had served their sentences.
Their designs hint that universities are organisations whose mission is to question traditional ways of thinking, to break down conventions.
