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conventionality
1. based word use on conventionality
2. It did seem a shame that pomposity and cringing conventionality should be so attractively wrapped
3. I will not pretend conventionality with you, and I do not thank you, for I don't like to have to believe that you really thought I would come
4. And perhaps a little more of the conventionality and ordinariness you appear to think is waste of time might improve your general prospects
5. “ Mistress Desiree’, that would go against all conventionality
6. Aspects of the Quality ALL-Love-ALL-Wisdom may be (of course, to a high degree of conventionality) characterized as a creative manifestation of “pure sensuousness” which has been duvuyllerrtly transformed from “rude-sexual egocentricity” of lower Levels of INGLIMILISSA-IISSIIDI into altruistic experiences of one “personality” relative to another
7. only in connection with your lower subjective needs that correspond to existing conventionality, forced circumstances, patient expectations, necessary understanding, preconceived opinion, individual interpretation, practical usage, and so on
8. The classical conventionality that each kind of literature should haveits prescribed form and that the
9. In the first version there was also some tendency to abuse the newfreedom from conventionality in
10. Her will, like the veil of her bonnet, held by a string, flutters in every wind; there is always some desire that draws her, some conventionality that restrains
11. Levin said that the French had carried conventionality further than anyone, and that consequently they see a great merit in the return to realism
12. Her unsophisticated open-air existence required no varnish of conventionality to make it palatable to him
13. With all his attempted independence of judgement this advanced and well-meaning young man, a sample product of the last five-and-twenty years, was yet the slave to custom and conventionality when surprised back into his early teachings
14. In Chapter 5, we studied several different portfolios arranged according to risk, complexity, and conventionality
15. Having said as much as was absolutely necessary, and with as little meaning as conventionality required, Nekhludoff rose and went up to Meslennikoff
16. Well, you have taught me, too—for instance, that your years and years on your knees in the musty temple of conventionality before false gods have made you—fit only for the Langdon sort of thing
17. Carlotta’s introduction is somewhat unusual, if not improbable, but it is to be remembered that a bright, attractive English girl, most of whose life has been spent in a Turkish harem, cannot be expected to conform, all at once, to English standards of conventionality
18. She shook her head, and I saw that the struggle between us had begun—the struggle against her timidity and conventionality
19. Potter even seemed to belittle opportunities that might have raised his play from the dull level of conventionality
20. People with new ideas, opposed to the conventionality of the old ones, expect naturally to bide their time before the public unhesitatingly accepts them
21. On the body of the Triton and the Echidna of the pediments no attempt is made to indicate movement and contortion by the position of the scales; it is everywhere the lifeless conventionality of archaic vase-drawing