How to Use conventionality in a Sentence

conventionality

noun

• None of the other films depict a Black point of view, which makes this one rather disappointing in its conventionality.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
• The 1950s are now remembered as an age of wan conventionality.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
• What's harder to overlook is the kind of uninspired conventionality that should frighten more intrepid eaters.
  — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 24 Aug. 2017
• One gave me a unique, unusual independence; a heightened way of seeing the world; a model for how to buck conventionality and become an artist.
  — Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 18 May 2017
• WeWork gets credit for being a disrupter of sorts, and the company certainly has played up its lack of conventionality.
  — Lauren Silva Laughlin, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2019
• Each perfectly cast character has a twist that places him or her outside of conventionality.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• That began to change in the prosperous, back-to-conventionality Eisenhower era.
  — oregonlive, 11 May 2022
• To be sure, there’s a familiarity to that Heart Of Darkness setup — and Roy’s whispered, on-the-nose voiceover often adds another level of conventionality.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• One is the doctrine of conventionality control, which is contested by some scholars.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• But then the form’s conventionality and constraints began to appeal to him: resistance requires something to resist.
  — Dimiter Kenarov, The New Yorker, 23 July 2021
• Collins, who died on April 28 at the age of 90, dutifully performed the public acts required of a person who had achieved unfathomable distinction, but in a manner that defied conventionality.
  — Nathan Wurtzel, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
• Yet beneath the middlebrow situational conventionality, there’s a core of raw feeling and truth to it.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
• Several of the familiar themes are there: the search for and betrayal of the lost mother; the double nature of father/lover and lover/brother; the defense of boredom or nothingness as a moral position more truthful than conventionality.
  — Rachel Cusk, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• But at its best (admittedly, rare), this movement stands as an anarchic rejoinder to conventionality of all kinds.
  — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2022
• If a concert of Grieg and Elgar sounds to you disappointing in its conventionality, know that two adventurous contemporary works are also the program.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2019
• That conventionality makes these people more rather than less like us, which is salutary for human beings politically regarded as aliens.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
• In a sea of eye-numbing conventionality, a maverick appearance is their signature.
  — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• One of cinema’s great smolders ensues, as Archer — a helpless cog in high-class society’s machine of repression and conventionality — struggles mightily to keep his passions under wraps.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• This is not the kind of approach that usually inspires confidence; a sure route to conventionality is empty experimentation.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2019
• Biden’s initial round of hires disappointed some of the most ardent liberals, but Rubio’s acerbic reaction underscores the downsides of conventionality.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 24 Nov. 2020
• Every Aquarian is a rebel at heart: These air signs despise authority and anything that represents conventionality.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 31 July 2020
• Sure, the minivan would eventually acquire the stigma of suburban stolidity and soccer mom conventionality — another reason the sleeker, sportier S.U.V. was able to emerge as the more chic 21st-century family hauler.
  — Nick Kurczewski, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2016
• Messiness releases you from conventionality and thus inspires fresh insights.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 2 June 2022
• The crimes that shock him out of his comfortable conventionality come from real-life murderers David Berkowitz and Edmund Kemper, whose chaotic relationships with women have manifested into a systemic gruesomeness that lacks clear motives.
  — Paige S. Allen, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Oct. 2017
• But while there's no question the real Jesse Brown endured unimaginable bigotry, Devotion approaches these altercations with a musty conventionality.
  — Tim Grierson, Chron, 21 Nov. 2022
• His brother, Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch), unbridled and terrifyingly intelligent, wants nothing to do with George’s conventionality.
  — Vogue, 21 Oct. 2021
• Physical order produces healthy choices, generosity, and conventionality, whereas disorder produces creativity.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2013

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