All 7 Uses of
convention
in
Atonement
- 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
- His opener was conventionally dull.†
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 typed the date and salutation and plunged straight into a conventional apology for his "clumsy and inconsiderate behavior."†
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
- If this sham was conventional hypocrisy, she had to concede that it had its uses.†
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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(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