How To Use Conventionalize In A Sentence
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Yet lest you find in this general combination of circumstances some sinister threat of audacity, let me conventionalize the story at once by opening it at that most conventional of all conventional
Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
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She was sick with love of him, and he danced with her as he would dance with any woman, as he would dance with a man who was a good dancer and upon whose arm was tied a handkerchief to conventionalize him into a woman.
Chapter VI
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They're just going to disorganize me, conventionalize me completely.
Book 1, Chapter 2. Spires and Gargoyles.
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Is it not true that we habitually refuse to take seriously His teaching about man; that we water down His paradoxes and conventionalize His sayings; that we blunt the sharpness of His precepts, and shirk the tremendous sternness of His demands?
Religious Reality
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Written characters are, in fact, derived from pictography or picture writing, those in use at the present time being only developed and conventionalized forms of primitive drawings.
Chinese Painters A Critical Study
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a chaste border of conventionalized flowers
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Made of a light-buff clay, and known as delftware, the tiles unearthed are decorated in blue, with a conventionalized design in each corner and
New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
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These feathers vary in form and arrangement, and the angles between them are occupied by horn-shape bodies, two of which have highly complicated extremities recalling conventionalized birds.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
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He concluded that when it comes to highly conventionalized utterances communicative intentions are largely irrelevant, but that on the other hand convention does not play much role for ordinary illocutionary types.
Him
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conventionalized" creation, as we say of ornamentation.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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conventionalized behavior
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Then, too, it was inevitable that the typist or printer would conventionalize Joyce's mannered punctuation and spelling.
The Big Word in 'Ulysses'
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Walls's parents—just two of the unforgettable characters in this excellent, unusual book—were a matched pair of eccentrics, and raising four children didn't conventionalize either of them.
Archive 2006-02-01
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The designs may become so conventionalized that they are unrecognizable to all but the original artist.
Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part Four
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It is a "conventionalized" creation, as we say of ornamentation.
In the Wilderness
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Do common cases become conventionalized as new senses for the words involved?
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In some ways this is an asset to the book, since it reinforces the sense that for many young people like "Buzz" Pepper this was an emotionally dead time, but for me the alienated youth theme only seems all the more conventionalized and predictable when it's cast as the foundation of an historical re-creation, a glimpse of a previous era's teenage wasteland.
Narrative Strategies
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It must also be pointed out that there is a close likeness between some of these so-called conventionalized figures of birds and those of moths or butterflies.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
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I thought it was only women who were privileged to change their mind," she began brightly; but Arkwright ignored her attempt to conventionalize the situation.
Miss Billy -- Married
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The main thing that fascinates in Frye is exactly his basic assumption - the quasi-anthropological approach he takes to literature, tracing its beginning to the two sides of an endlessly spinning coin - ritual and prophetic epiphany, and how they gave rise to mythmaking, and later - to the more familiar conventionalized forms of literature.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
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I'll just make studies now, and this winter I'll conventionalize them and work them into patterns.
The Harvester
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It has the look of the inter-war year, when Gothic revival had become canonical, if not quite conventionalized.
St. Mary of the Lake, Door Peninsula, Wisconsin
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He refused to have his portrait conventionalized into the customary smooth beauty of the pharaoh god.
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It is an actual example of "realism" unencumbered and applied with great rigor, and it is likely to unmoor the assumptions of those readers tied to a more conventionalized, less ascetic understanding of the role of "realistic" dialogue.
Narrative Strategies
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It is an actual example of "realism" unencumbered and applied with great rigor, and it is likely to unmoor the assumptions of those readers tied to a more conventionalized, less ascetic understanding of the role of "realistic" dialogue.
Narrative Strategies
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A person's knowledge of a language consists, precisely, in knowledge of idioms, that is, conventionalized form-meaning relations, at varying levels of generality.