Greenwich will not straighten its streets nor conventionalise its views. From Wordnik.com. [Greenwich Village] Reference
Thus, though we conventionalise practice, we never conventionalise dogma. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Haven] Reference
The way to be untrue to Shakespeare here, as always, is to relax the tension of imagination, to conventionalise, to conceive. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth] Reference
The reason for this might have been found in the fact that acquired characteristics do not receive the stamp of heredity in one generation — his father was a self-made man, and had taught himself rigidly to conventionalise; and it might have been found in the fact that his mother had impressed upon his youthful mind the code of polite procedure in a way which made it appear an unpleasant duty — a mask, highly distasteful, but which must perforce be donned under certain conditions. From Wordnik.com. [THE UNMASKING OF A CAD] Reference
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