Sentence examples similar to grasp of convention from inspiring English sources
Simply by getting Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg to speak in prime time, the Democrats revealed their grasp of the convention as show business.
He appears to have been influenced deeply by Mozart; he demonstrated a keen dramatic sense, a sophisticated grasp of the conventions of opera seria, and a varied use of the orchestra (particularly of solo horns and woodwinds).
It was a grasping of freedom, a rejection of convention that she stood for and which people were all having to grapple with at the time.
Led by the bassist Moppa Elliott, it's a jazz quartet with a diligent grasp of history but an anarchic take on convention.
His defiance of convention was his downfall.
Not for her the demands of convention.
On the reefs of convention.
CBD – Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) "Text of Convention".
But even if this partly reflects evolved psychological mechanisms or 'modules' governing social sentiments and responses, much of it may also be the result of human intelligence grasping (under varying cultural conditions) genuine morally relevant distinctions or facts—such as the difference between the normative force that attends harm and that which attends mere violations of convention.
"She operates outside of convention.
