Sentence examples for rigid conventions from inspiring English sources

Jekyll feels hidebound in his own skin, made to comply with the rigid conventions of his class and society.

The Propylaea was designed by Mnesicles, who had to adapt the rigid conventions of colonnade construction to a steeply rising site.

But step by step Verdi modified the rigid conventions of bel canto opera, which showed off singers at the expense of dramatic values.

In the very small pre-World War Army, with its rigid conventions, an officer's teaching his superiors was a breath-taking innovation.

Such exhibitions were made all the more difficult because, though it varied according to the rank of the person to whom it was addressed, the vocabulary of each type of qaṣīdah was controlled by rigid conventions.

Symbolism originated in the revolt of certain French poets against the rigid conventions governing both technique and theme in traditional French poetry, as evidenced in the precise description of Parnassian poetry.

Elizabeth is the intrepid upper-class girl torn between a life of rigid convention and the adventures and freedom offered by an attractive man of a lower class.

"I never had the pressure of a severe, hard music teacher on my back .As a student in a Caracas conservatory, he rejected rigid convention in order to achieve what he calls "social transformation through music".

The duke once wrote before his marriage that, "All my life hitherto, I had been fretting against those constrictions of dress which reflected my family's world of rigid social convention".

In other parts of the world, however, there are less-rigid burial conventions.

Pointless rules, desiccated conventions, rigid systems of deference – what is any of it for, except propping up the establishment for the same reason establishments always demand propping up?