All 16 Uses of
convention
in
Jude the Obscure
- The screens and subtleties of convention had likewise disappeared.†
Part 3
- You seem to me to have nothing unconventional at all about you.†
Part 3 *
- His voice trembled as he said: "However you have lived, Sue, I believe you are as innocent as you are unconventional!"†
Part 3
- It was a contrite little note from Sue, in which she said, with sweet humility, that she felt she had been horrid in telling him he was not to come to see her, that she despised herself for having been so conventional; and that he was to be sure to come by the eleven-forty-five train that very Sunday, and have dinner with them at half-past one.†
Part 3
- I perceive I have said that in mere convention!†
Part 4 *
- "I have been thinking," she continued, still in the tone of one brimful of feeling, "that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns.†
Part 4
- Jude ought not to have pretended that he was not a lover, and made her give way to an impulse to act unconventionally, if not wrongly.†
Part 4
- But as I couldn't I became rather reckless and careless about the conventions.†
Part 4
- "But perhaps it is that you don't love me—not that you have become conventional!†
Part 4
- Much as, under your teaching, I hate convention, I hope it IS that, not the other terrible alternative!†
Part 4
- But even a baker must be conventional, to get customers.†
Part 5
- Although I know it is all right with our plans, I felt a curious dread of him; an awe, or terror, of conventions I don't believe in.†
Part 6
- It was Sue, whose coloured clothing, which she had never thought of changing for the mourning he had bought, suggested to the eye a deeper grief than the conventional garb of bereavement could express.†
Part 6
- She was no longer the same as in the independent days, when her intellect played like lambent lightning over conventions and formalities which he at that time respected, though he did not now.†
Part 6
- Where is your scorn of convention gone?†
Part 6
- As Jude reflected more and more on her news, and grew more restless, he began in his mental agony to use terribly profane language about social conventions, which started a fit of coughing.†
Part 6
Definitions:
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(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting