He is holding thunderbolts, conventionalised in a hand-like form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Not, of course, run-of-the-mill bad writers which is to say, not incompetent, or banal, or trivial or merely conventionalised writers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad writers] Reference

The principal designs for the Venetian lace of all periods were scrolls of flowers conventionalised in the Renaissance taste of the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference

In fact, as yesterday's novum are conventionalised by generations of reuse, I'd argue, they have become equivalently folkloric -- comfortably familiar as genre tropes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Facial expression could not be seen in so large a theatre; and the actors therefore wore masks, conventionalised to represent the dominant mood of a character during a scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference

The rounded projecting rib is painted with foliage of cypress-green, with here and there rich red and golden flowers gleaming out, and on either side a border of conventionalised water-lilies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luca Signorelli] Reference

A more accessible story, then, is one where these structural features are clearly defined -- whether that means unorthodox but simple or deeply conventionalised as in the extreme case of symbolic formulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

Bohemianism just a shade too much conventionalised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenwich Village] Reference

An effective conventionalised border surrounded the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Violin] Reference

There was just a limited and conventionalised use of colour, in effect, upon the marble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference

For this reason geometrical or highly conventionalised ornament is all the architect requires.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

It is technically crude, childishly conventionalised, wrought with an enforced economy of means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions and Comments] Reference

Robertson indicates the conventionalised gesture of life; Hauptmann its moral and spiritual density.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I] Reference

Of course, there are flower-forms which are naturally geometric, which have conventionalised themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples] Reference

The conventionalised peacock is represented in a few lines, such as one sees on the familiar Persian brass trays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference

They are not easy, and they will be made more and more hard by the rubbed-out, conventionalised coinage of our language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference

Evidently there is much sophistication, not to say conventionalised affectation, in all this national attachment and allegiance.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference

Though not subjected to any serious canon, the predecessors of Donatello seemed at one time in danger of becoming conventionalised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donatello, by Lord Balcarres] Reference

The dull-red birth-mark on his shoulder, something like a conventionalised Tartar cloud, had slipped his memory or he would not have bathed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference

It was fragrant with rose petals and the conventionalised rose, in gold and white, that was stamped in place of a monogram, didn't escape me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rose and Silver] Reference

Similarly, our bearing towards superiors, and in great measure towards equals, expresses a more or less conventionalised attitude of subservience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

I acquired a shield which, besides the conventionalised representation of a dog, exhibited a wild-looking picture of an antoh, a very common feature on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917] Reference

In designing tools, it must be borne in mind that they may appear on the book many times repeated, and so must be simple in outline and much conventionalised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians] Reference

Small birds drawn with five or six lines only, but quite characteristic of conventionalised Persian art, were extremely common, and were the most ingeniously clever of the lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference

Percier, the artist, helped with the painting, but the throne itself was David's and shows his talent in the floating Victory of the back and the conventionalised wreaths of the seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference

Manners, we are told, are in part an elaboration of gesture, and in part they are symbolical and conventionalised survivals representing former acts of dominance or of personal service or of personal contact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

(which later becomes conventionalised into a simper), or permits a caress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Paris] Reference

A product of habituation, very largely of the nature of conventionalised use and wont.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference

A field of conventionalised fleur-de-lis of so large a pattern as not to interfere with the details thrown against it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference

That pose of abject self depreciation which is in reality not wholly a pose but a vehement protest against the shallow judgment of a conventionalised culture ---- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gossamer 1915] Reference

A conventionalised parrot. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty's Social Season] Reference

Athos, Mount: conventionalised art, 22.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donatello, by Lord Balcarres] Reference