Sentence examples for that is conventional from inspiring English sources

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Like its love story, "Mall" has a setting that is conventional to the point of banality.

The play deals with the negating of anything that is conventional about the theater.

A Late Quartet contains much that is conventional in terms of genre (the group split) and dramatic crisis (illness, adultery, familial bust-ups).

There is also little that is conventional about Mr. Morris's rowdy party scene, in which liquor is served but no food; fights erupt among the guests, who include Mr. Morris, donning sideburns and bell-bottoms.

Apart from her career successes -- which include writing the theme song for "Friends," as well as songs for Earth, Wind & Fire, the Pointer Sisters, the Pet Shop Boys, Patti LaBelle, Boy George and the musical "The Color Purple" -- there is little about Ms. Willis that is conventional.

An illustration shows this C7 chord (C, E, G, B), which would be extremely difficult to play in standard tuning, besides the open-position C7 chord that is conventional in standard tuning: This open-position C7 chord is termed a second-inversion C7 drop 2 chord (C, G, B, E), because the second-highest note (C) in the second-inversion C7 chord (G, B, C, E) is lowered by an octave.

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"Today, that's conventional wisdom," he said.

She didn't make something that was conventional.

Or rather, no one is given the ideal beauty that was conventional in art.

Her films may be social realist dramas that are conventional in their working-class settings but her focus is refreshingly female.

It builds, slowly, to a poignant climax in which, finally, its protagonists are redeemed, though not in a way that's conventional.

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