All 7 Uses of
convention
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
- His opener was conventionally dull.†
Chpt 1 *
- He typed the date and salutation and plunged straight into a conventional apology for his "clumsy and inconsiderate behavior."†
Chpt 1conventional = normal or typical
- If this sham was conventional hypocrisy, she had to concede that it had its uses.†
Chpt 1
- Unseen, from two stories up, with the benefit of unambiguous sunlight, she had privileged access across the years to adult behavior, to rites and conventions she knew nothing about, as yet.†
Chpt 1
- He had spent three years drily studying the symptoms, which had seemed no more than literary conventions, and now, in solitude, like some ruffed and plumed courtier come to the edge of the forest to contemplate a discarded token, he was worshiping her traces—not a handkerchief, but fingerprints!†
Chpt 1
- He had been about to conjure for her a private moment of exuberance, a passing impatience with convention, a memory of reading the Orioli edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, which he had bought under the counter in Soho.†
Chpt 1
- Even she, who knew nothing of military strategy or journalistic convention, understood a euphemism for retreat.†
Chpt 3 *
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
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)