Sentence examples for wholly conventional from inspiring English sources

In the U.S. flag there is very little natural basis for symbolism; it is almost wholly conventional.

I suspect that Wood means these inserted set pieces to be Tolstoyan, but the way they're parachuted into an otherwise wholly conventional narrative suggests less fortunate examples of the novelist's art -- Ayn Rand, say.

This is the wholly conventional plot of "Wrong for Each Other," a romantic comedy by the Canadian playwright Norm Foster playing through tomorrow in the tiny upstairs space at Manhattan Theater Source.

But this is a wholly conventional phenomenon and there is no reason to suppose that what is sufficient to activate a certain body of law automatically activates a different set of moral principles as well.

Just as Olivier had rebelled against Gielgud's way of "singing" verse, Kenneth Branagh has rebelled against the "oratorical, rhetorical style" of Olivier's Henry V and his "self-conscious" Hamlet, and has remade Shakespeare for another era — brightly polished and wholly conventional.

Edward's approach to religion was normal for the period, and the historian Michael Prestwich describes him as "a man of wholly conventional religious attitudes".

Hereon, we report a rapid and facile quantum dots (QDs) and superparamagnetic nanoparticle-based hybridization assay for the detection of (HPV) 16 infections which combines the merits of superparamagnetic nanoparticles and QDs and wholly differs from a conventional hybridization assay at that the reaction occurs at homogeneous solution, and total time for detection is no more than 1 h.

A single entity called the hypnozoite demands a wholly different approach from conventional P. falciparum-centric strategic postures in research and practice aimed at malaria.

A wholly new treatment of the conventional pathetic fallacy of attributing grief to nature is achieved in Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865 66).

Conclusions: The results suggest that orthodox medicine is not meeting the needs of some patients and that CAM may wholly or partly substitute for conventional medicines.

It is wholly uninterested in the trappings of conventional crime drama.