Sentence examples for more conventional mode from inspiring English sources

Dropping his characters into the tumult of recent national history, he occasionally seems to adopt a more conventional mode of novel-writing about India.

This is Flanagan in more conventional mode, with a thriller "that is genuinely thrilling" in which a Sydney lap-dancer catastrophically crosses paths with a possible al-Qaida operative.

I'll be honest here, it seems like much of Doodle Defense's appeal disappears when you're stuck using a more conventional mode of input to play.

More conventional modes of virtuosity came into play in Marc-André Dalbavie's "Fantaisies," an exhilarating cello concerto commissioned by Ms. Diamond for Mr. Kaminsky's 80th birthday.

But when movements advance, filmmakers are thrown back to their own imagination — which is why many soon fall back into more conventional modes of filmmaking and leave behind the radical spirit of their early days.

"Im Gestein," Mr. Heppener's 1992 setting of six Paul Celan poems, applies floating harmonies and luminous textures not unlike Ligeti's to more conventional modes of expression, accompanied with brilliant daubs of instrumental color (performed here by the ensemble musikFabrik).

Mann's movies are distinguished from less sophisticated and more conventional modes of realism by the feeling that they're not like filmed screenplays but like filmed blueprints, filmed armatures.

But she is also interested in more conventional modes of developing characters; in the hands of the director, Anna Brenner, and a nimble ensemble, "The Hotel Colors" generally manages to satisfy the script's somewhat awkwardly abutting stylistic and storytelling interests.

The hovering, shifting voice-over that is Mr. Malick's hallmark accomplishes a kind of psychological insight that more conventional modes of realism leave largely untouched, allowing him to articulate the unstated intuitions and connections that bind people together even when they do not have much to say to one another.

It is likely that the unconventional mode of cellulose degradation by F. succinogenes accrues at least in part from an unusual combination of cellulases distributed into certain families which are relatively poorly represented among microbes that employ more conventional modes of cellulose degradation.

In the case of Internet-based trials, self report is unavoidable, and subjective reporting is likely to occur in almost all instances, whereas researchers conducting trials using other, more conventional modes can design their trials to avoid these problems if desired.