Sentence examples for verbal conventions from inspiring English sources
Reading a few comics will familiarize you with the genre's verbal conventions.
But "Keyhole" is not really a gangster picture nor a horror movie, though it traffics in some of the visual and verbal conventions of both genres: tough talk, murky shadows, darkened hallways.
It simply records the fact that, as the result of certain verbal conventions, the proposition that two sense-contents occur in the same visual or tactual sense-field is incompatible with the proposition that they belong to the same material thing.
See also Hattori (1968, p. 80) for the four characteristics of particulars as given in Pramāṇavārttika III.1 2: (1) having causal efficacy; (2) specific to a locality in space-time; (3) not an object (aviṣaya) of words; (4) apprehendable without dependence upon verbal conventions.
More recently, sociologists have applied some of Goffmann's techniques to investigate the largely unconscious verbal and nonverbal conventions of everyday social interactions.
In the US, a shocking survey of attendees at the San Diego Comic-Con the biggest in the Comic-Con thevered that 13 percent of the more than 130,000 surveyed said they had experienced some kind of sexual harassment, either physical or verbiggest the conventinn.
Mr. Lucas's work valuably tries to link the verbal styles and staging conventions of the 19th and 21st centuries.
When his eloquent father, Khizr Khan, spoke at the Democratic National Convention, he fired verbal arrows that finally pierced Donald Trump's malice-based armor.
Others use verbal wit to play with the conventions of the form: "Unscrupulous Man Seeks Patsy," writes one online lonely heart.
Their disregard for conventions of form and their verbal non-sequiturs pre-dated the anarchy of the Goons on radio and Monty Python on TV.
It is difficult to feel sympathy for Westchester delegates to the Republican convention when they complain of verbal mistreatment from protesters ("The Delegate as Commuter," Sept. 5).
