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Conventionality

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  • Conventionality is itself conventional, many if not most individuals, I would assert, unconsciously accepting whatever default paradigm they are raised in, even accepting changes to that default paradigm as and when they occur.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Conventionality is itself conventional, many if not most individuals, I would assert, unconsciously accepting whatever default paradigm they are raised in, even accepting changes to that default paradigm as and when they occur.

    There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism Hal Duncan 2009

  • One day the subject for an essay was "Conventionality," and

    The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

  • "Conventionality," he exclaimed; "I'd sooner have the honest vice of the man who pleads guilty; I'd a thousand times sooner defend his case, than urge for a woman who just holds on to the virtue of conventionality with the tips of her fingers."

    Sally Bishop A Romance 1906

  • Conventionality seems misplaced in Helen's crown, and how fitting she dubbed her latest collection, Rock and Royal.

    Anisha Lakhani: Helen Yarmak: Rock And Royal at the Crown Penthouse Terrace Anisha Lakhani 2011

  • Conventionality seems misplaced in Helen's crown, and how fitting she dubbed her latest collection, Rock and Royal.

    Anisha Lakhani: Helen Yarmak: Rock And Royal at the Crown Penthouse Terrace Anisha Lakhani 2011

  • Conventionality is the acceptance of impersonal standards.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • Conventionality is the acceptance of impersonal standards.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • "Conventionality, I believe, would require that it be placed on your hand with a kiss and some appropriate bit of sentiment, but since that sort of thing is tabooed between us, we will have to dispense with that part of the ceremony."

    At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand

  • Conventionality has a bad name at present, and manners are on the decline, this is a fact quite undisputed.

    The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart

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