Sentence examples for of a conventional sort from inspiring English sources

No virus of a conventional sort can act in this way.

Child abduction is a very rare thing, and the child abduction which promises to turn into a gripping narrative of a conventional sort is rarer still.

Along the way there is some amusing fun of a conventional sort involving an encounter with Andy Warhol (I'll leave you to guess whether he's an alien or another Man in Black).

Regulation of a conventional sort may not restore trust, of course: indeed it may, as Mr Tomlinson says, accelerate the divide between heavily regulated public companies and lightly regulated hedge funds and private equity markets.

The artists Tala Madani, born in Iran, and Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, from Poland, do oil-on-canvas pictures of a conventional sort; Emre Huner, from Turkey, combines painting with animation; the German-born artist Kerstin Brätsch uses hers as performance aids; and the New York artist Josh Smith treats his like prints, churning out dozens of pictures at a time and stacking them for distribution.

To pair against these bearish vehicles you can own either stocks and mutual funds of a conventional sort or else one of the 23 bullish ETFs offered by ProShares.

But it is a conventional sort of virtuosity, in the service of a conventional exoticism.

He taught at the universities of Turin and Salerno and in 1974 obtained the chair of literature in his native Genoa, where he became a cultural icon, walking in the vibrant city centre, phlegmatic, smiling, elegant in a conventional sort of way, like many leftwing Italian intellectuals of his generation.

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Observing this fitting icon of Amarillo's genetic predisposition to the idiosyncratic, I wondered if the place could ever be tamed enough to be a conventional sort of tourist haunt.

Pascoe grew up in a "conventional sort of home" that spoke English ("I love English, I adore English literature," he says), and says his family denied their own Aboriginality for a long time.