All 9 Uses of
convention
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- She gave him a conventional kiss, as if she had been away only an hour, and she told him: "Look out the door."†
Chpt 2 *conventional = normal or typical
- After a string of conventional vagaries, Pilar Ternera predicted: "You will not be happy as long as your parents remain unburied."†
Chpt 4
- She reached twenty without knowing how to read or write, unable to use the silver at the table, wandering naked through the house because her nature rejected all manner of convention.†
Chpt 10convention = something regarded as normal
- Then she began to laugh with her lips tight together, without giving up the fight, but defending herself with false bites and deweaseling her body little by little until they both were conscious of being adversaries and accomplices at the same time and the affray degenerated into a conventional gambol and the attacks became caresses.†
Chpt 19conventional = normal or typical
- It had been mailed in Barcelona, but the envelope was addressed in conventional blue ink by an official hand and it had the innocent and impersonal look of hostile messages.†
Chpt 20
- The final protection, which Aureliano had begun to glimpse when he let himself be confused by the love of Amaranta Ursula, was based on the fact that Melquiades had not put events in the order of man's conventional time, but had concentrated a century of daily episodes in such a way that they coexisted in one instant.†
Chpt 20
- The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in a search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbing her incredible beauty became and the more provocative she became to men.†
Chpt 12
- Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if it were not a religion but a compendium of funeral conventions.†
Chpt 14
- She worked out an intricate web of false dates to throw Fernanda off the track, lost sight of her girl friends, leaped over conventions to be with Mauricio Babilonia at any time and at any place.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting
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(2)
(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(3)
(convention as in: The Geneva Convention) a written international agreement