Sentence examples for were as conventional from inspiring English sources

In their profession, they all sought to take spin and predictability off the baseball, but on the golf course they were as conventional as a fastball pitcher.

His introduction to activism was as conventional as it gets.

His rules are as conventional as the genre.

At such moments, Szalay is, despite himself, being as conventional as any traditional novelist could possibly be.

Stowe's early life was as conventional as that of a member of the Beecher family could be.

Watch the trailer for 'Omagh' Just occasionally, films set during the Troubles have been as conventional as any other genre movies.

By the end, after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly, sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be, you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be.

The documentary "Birth of a Movement," which airs on PBS at 10 P.M. on Monday, February 6th, doesn't offer much in the way of original artistry; its form is as conventional as an on-air encyclopedia article.

In fact, we reward them, we reelect them, in spite of their being as conventional as they are ineffectual.

And Manford's routines are as conventional in content as he is in style.

Workplace love triangles may be as conventional on TV as conspiracies, but, when the chemistry is this strong, I'm all in.