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Examples
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He concludes by suggesting that Barack Obama reject, “Conventionalism”.
Roger Cohen, Barack, Berlin, Paris, and Pedantry « Christopher Colaninno 2008
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"Conventionalism and the origins of the inertial frame concept."
Space and Time: Inertial Frames DiSalle, Robert 2002
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Artist; resulting in the gradual departure from Realism to the most severe Conventionalism.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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Conventionalism ended; Maria to flounder in an unsounded quagmire, which she believed the well of Truth.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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Conventionalism will never injure the simplicity of such characters as these, nay, it may greatly add to their influence, and secure for their virtues and talents the reception that they deserve; it is a part of benevolence to cultivate the graces that may persuade or allure men to the imitation of what is right.
The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends An English Lady
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COMPLETE CONVENTIONALISM, in which all parts are reduced to conventional renderings (see Conventionalism).
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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CARL LUMHOLTZ: "Conventionalism in Designs of the Huichol Indians,"
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The ladies, he said, were swayed by Conventionalism and Priestcraft, and until you educated them, you could not safely give them the franchise.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869
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Conventionalism by cause of inefficiency of material.
The Two Paths John Ruskin 1859
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Conventionalism by cause of inferiority of office.
The Two Paths John Ruskin 1859
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