All 17 Uses of
convention
in
Mrs. Warren's Profession
- Replace him to-morrow by an Academy of Letters and an Academy of Dramatic Poetry, and the new and enlarged filter will still exclude original and epoch-making work, whilst passing conventional, old-fashioned, and vulgar work without question.†
Act Auth
- The vapidness of such drama as the pseudo-operatic plays contain lies in the fact that in them animal passion, sentimentally diluted, is shewn in conflict, not with real circumstances, but with a set of conventions and assumptions half of which do not exist off the stage, whilst the other half can either be evaded by a pretence of compliance or defied with complete impunity by any reasonably strong-minded person.†
Act Auth
- Nobody can feel that such conventions are really compulsory; and consequently nobody can believe in the stage pathos that accepts them as an inexorable fate, or in the genuineness of the people who indulge in such pathos.†
Act Auth
- The axioms and postulates of that dreary mimanthropometry are so well known that it is almost impossible for its slaves to write tolerable last acts to their plays, so conventionally do their conclusions follow from their premises.†
Act Auth
- burlesques them by expecting all through the piece that the feelings of others will be logically deducible from their family relationships and from his "conventionally unconventional" social code.†
Act Auth
- burlesques them by expecting all through the piece that the feelings of others will be logically deducible from their family relationships and from his "conventionally unconventional" social code.†
Act Auth
- He is hardly past middle age, with something of the artist about him, unconventionally but carefully dressed, and clean-shaven except for a moustache, with an eager susceptible face and very amiable and considerate manners.†
Act 1
- Well, in making you too conventional.†
Act 1
- Now I was always afraid that your mother would strain her authority to make you very conventional.†
Act 1
- Oh! have I been behaving unconventionally?†
Act 1
- Oh no: oh dear no. At least, not conventionally unconventionally, you understand.†
Act 1
- Oh no: oh dear no. At least, not conventionally unconventionally, you understand.†
Act 1
- [She suddenly breaks out vehemently in her natural tongue—the dialect of a woman of the people—with all her affectations of maternal authority and conventional manners gone, and an overwhelming inspiration of true conviction and scorn in her] Oh, I wont bear it: I won't put up with the injustice of it.†
Act 2
- You attacked me with the conventional authority of a mother: I defended myself with the conventional superiority of a respectable woman.†
Act 2
- You attacked me with the conventional authority of a mother: I defended myself with the conventional superiority of a respectable woman.†
Act 2
- There is nothing I despise more than the wicked convention that protects these things by forbidding a woman to mention them.†
Act 4 *
- You are a conventional woman at heart.
Act 4 *conventional = typical
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