Sentence examples for slightly conventional from inspiring English sources

Instead, the eventual payoff of the episode involves a loose strand that we'd forgotten about, which Carbone picks up to slightly conventional but nonetheless powerful effect.

Seftel concluded that, despite Ehrenhaft's "reach at times [exceeding] his grasp," The Last Dog on Earth was "an interesting and absorbing variation" of the slightly conventional "boy-and-his-dog story".

That was pretty memorable, too, and only slightly more conventional.

Other chapters are slightly more conventional: biographical snapshots, summaries of Nabokov's great works.

Marina's upbringing may be slightly more conventional, but her oddness is, if anything, more pronounced.

A couple also mentioned Theodore Roszak's Flicker, a slightly more conventional take on Danielewski's use of fictionalised historical writing.

Then, if they don't choose to perch in the air, they might settle down to work in only slightly more conventional surroundings.

A home in a slightly less conventional sense, the island retreat in which the unnamed fugitive lives is nonetheless a compelling image of home.

Nadine Lehner graduated from college, spent five years doing conservation work in Patagonia, then headed to Stanford with the sense that "now I would come back to the U.S. and have a slightly more conventional job," she says.

Lovely as these brief texts are, Øyehaug is at her most captivating in her longer, slightly more conventional pieces, where she uses a kind of tightly controlled, repetitive dramatic monologue to animate a character's inner torments.

At Carnegie, the emphasis will be on the contemporary; at the Tilles Center on Saturday, by contrast, they're going slightly more conventional, offering Mendelssohn's Concerto for Two Pianos and Shostakovich's 11th Symphony.