Sentence examples for essentially conventional from inspiring English sources

At his previous start-up, SonoSite, which is based in Seattle, Mr. Souquet helped develop hand-held ultrasound devices that were essentially conventional technology, drastically miniaturized.

Her terrain is the family, and the micro-interactions between both its members and interlopers from without; her tone is superficially uncomplicated, her insights cumulative, her mode of realist fiction essentially conventional.

Marker-assisted breeding (usually called marker assisted selection) uses the genetic diversity found in crops or their wild relatives, combined with genomic data (genomic markers) to speed up what are otherwise essentially conventional breeding methods.

The music of Act 1 is essentially conventional in expression, and conventional feeling is tellingly parodied in certain of the arias; but the arias of Act 2 are on a deeper and more personal level.

Wilson, who emerged in the 1960s during the heady ferment of the burgeoning Off Off Broadway movement, and who died in 2011, probably never wrote a more simply structured or essentially conventional play than this romantic comedy, part of his trilogy about the Talley family of rural Lebanon, Mo.

During the last century the thesis that language is essentially conventional has played a central role within philosophy of language, and has even been called a platitude (Lewis 1969).

Altman's next film, That Cold Day in the Park (1968), is more interesting (it tells of a repressed woman who establishes a pathological relationship with a younger boy), but, again, it is essentially a conventional film.

Particularly, some are related to the pioneering investigation of industrial extraction of shale oil and gas, whose deposits in the world essentially exceed conventional reserves.

Essentially, the conventional system and boundary formulations developed for a life cycle of individual energy system cannot be directly applied to a life cycle of interconnected energy systems.

The repository, already on a web-based platform and available as open-source, essentially upgrades conventional representations with capabilities to share (import/export) and integrate its content externally.

For values of this ratio less than one, the optimum temperature profiles represent a low temperature reaction zone that occupies the entire active bed at all times, essentially a conventional mode of operation.