Sentence examples for more conventional modes from inspiring English sources

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.

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).

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.

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.

Taxis are an essential mode of transport in many jurisdictions, and yet compared to more conventional public modes such as bus and train, are typically ignored in the debate on ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of non-private modes as part of delivering greater connectivity.

There is a more conventional "desktop" mode for running Microsoft Office and older programs, though there is no way to permanently switch to it.