Both Uses of
convention
in
The Power and the Glory by Cooke
- The word seems unduly fiery when one remembers the smiling, insouciant manner of his divergences from the conventional type; yet he was inveterately himself, and not some schoolmaster's or tailor's or barber's version of Gray Stoddard; and in this, though Johnnie did not know it, lay the strength of his charm for her.†
Chpt 5
- Its more unconventional lines suited him well; the dust-brown Norfolk, the leathern puttees, gave an adventurous turn to the expression of a personality which was only so on the mental side.†
Chpt 13 *
Definition:
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(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical