The phrase "free of conventions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to someone or something that is not bound by typical ways of doing things or traditional rules. For example, "The actor's style was free of conventions and he approached his roles with creativity and imagination."
And for performance-based artists like Joan Jonas, Mary Lucier and Carolee Schneemann, who, as women, were relegated to the fringes of the mainstream art world, video was a tool like no other: malleable, immediate, free of conventions, expectations and pedigrees, available for trial and error.
Today's mourners are increasingly breaking free of conventions to better embrace the person they want to remember.
Ryan's life experiences provided the perfect mind-set, free of convention, uninterested in results but obsessed with the science and artistry involved.
One of his own inspirations is the cellist Jacqueline du Pré (1945-87), who also broke free of convention in her short career.
Of all the federal holidays, Washington's Birthday, as it is officially known, is perhaps arguably the only one free of convention.
This was music that danced free of convention, from musical genre to how a man or a woman was supposed to behave.
"Kathy is somebody who broke free of convention," the journalist Peggy Orenstein, who first read the novel as a teenager in the 1970s, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
Free of convention, and fresh from reading the main briefs in the case to be argued before the Supreme Court next week, I'm here to tell you: that belief is simply wrong.
Mr. Frank, who is also the writer, creates a world that, supposedly free of convention, is actually dominated by it, a 20th-century amorality as demanding and restrictive as the bourgeois morality it replaced.
Meanwhile, we leave you with three ideas for celebrating George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the spirit of Presidents' Day in general: 1. Rethink the Holiday: "Of all the federal holidays, Washington's Birthday, as it is officially known, is perhaps arguably the only one free of convention.
"They're pretty much free of convention and normal society stuff.
