All 16 Uses of
convention
in
A Sketch of the Past
- It made one hypocritical and immeshed in the conventions of sorrow.†
- This unnamed quality—the sensitiveness to real things—was queer in the sister of George and Gerald, who were so opaque and conventional; who had so innate a respect for the conventions and respectabilities.†
- This unnamed quality—the sensitiveness to real things—was queer in the sister of George and Gerald, who were so opaque and conventional; who had so innate a respect for the conventions and respectabilities.†
- At last in April 1897 the marriage took place—conventionally, ceremoniously, with bells ringing, and company collected, and silver engraved wedding invitations, at St Mary Abbots.†
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- But it was also, I guess, the convention, supported by the great men of the time, Carlyle, Tennyson, that men of genius were naturally uncontrolled.†
- It was part of the convention that after these outbursts, the man of genius became "touchingly apologetic"; but he took it for granted that his wife or sister would accept his apology, that he was exempt, because of his genius, from the laws of good society.†
- Indeed for all his unconventionality, he accepted the social conventions so much more completely than we do that I wonder how it is that I feel that he was remote from all that.†
- But a strong mind; a healthy out of door, moor striding mind; an impatient, limited mind; a conventional mind entirely accepting his own standard of what is honest, what is moral, without a shadow of doubt accepting this is a good man; that is a good woman; I get a sense of Leslie Stephen, the muscular agnostic; cheery, hearty; always cracking up sense and manliness; and crying down sentiment and vagueness, yet putting in a dab of sentiment in the right place—"I will say no more ……†
- From the three long windows one looked out over the roofs of Kensington, to the presiding Church of St Mary Abbots, the church where our conventional marriages were celebrated—and one day standing there father saw an eagle.†
- Give him a character to explain, and he is (to me) so crude, so elementary, so conventional that a child with a box of chalks could make a more subtle portrait.†
- Silence was a breach of convention.†
- Nobody ever broke the convention.†
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- Like a fossil he had taken every crease and wrinkle of the conventions of upper middle class society between 187o and two.†
- He was in a conventional way as handsome as a man could be.†
- Downstairs there was pure convention; upstairs pure intellect.†
- No one cared less for the conventions.†
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