Sentence examples for of its conventions from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, the novel is very much the prisoner of its conventions.

Features owes the humiliating fatuity of its conventions to an old legal precedent called the "Miller Test".

The average crime drama is often little more than the sum of its conventions; the genre is less often reinvented than reshuffled, its premises and archetypes cut, pasted and dressed up in parodic ultraviolence and formal trickery.

That this country has made such an exception in some of its conventions and not in others demonstrates that the contracting parties were fully aware of the consequences unless there was a clause qualifying the word 'persons.' This interpretation has been consistently upheld by the United States, and enforced under the several treaties which do not exempt citizens.

She chose her partners and consorted with them with robust pleasure and equally lusty sorrow (when the affairs went askew) in a post‐Victorian society that could still be shocked (and which charmingly labeled such defiance of its conventions "free love").

On the other hand, the novel is very much a prisoner of its conventions.

Conventional wisdom has it that the site of its convention gives that party a boost in that state during the following election, although the evidence is mixed.

Last August, it doubled the size of its convention center and renovated the business district on the banks of the Truckee River.

The National Automobile Dealers Association will not change the date or location of its convention in New Orleans, making it less likely that the National Football League can move the Super Bowl back one week.

This is when it would ordinarily be at the height of its convention bounce.

It was a promotion for the opening of its convention center.