The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.    From LearnThat.org.  [John Galbraith]

A conventional view of the world.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

conventional bourgeois lives.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

conventional wisdom.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The term conventional tillage refers to land preparation in which there is maximum disturbance of the soil structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

In this report the term conventional energy is used to refer to fossil fuel, nuclear energy, and large-scale hydropower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

In theory, an effort is made in "conventional" wars to be discriminating in the infliction of war deaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death, Legal and Illegal] Reference

It is they who make her undergo the discomforts or miseries of what we call conventional life or bully her into exile or death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

I think that was the short-term conventional wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2007] Reference

Sometimes going conventional is not the wrong course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogtalk: The Biden Factor - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

I've never much of a believer in conventional wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [conventional wisdom] Reference

How much residual pesticides could be in conventional wines?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wine, allergies, histamines and sulfites - reactions from an allergist | Dr Vino's wine blog] Reference

I don't think about Ashbery's work in conventional evaluative ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: More Brand Upon the Brain!] Reference

The flavour is more gamey than one is accustomed to in conventional lamb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-10] Reference

Now, that was the old saga; and in Greek conventional eyes, it was all right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference

One way to look at this: a set of costs that is overlooked in conventional theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

Allopathic medicine is often referred to as conventional, mainstream or Western medicine.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

We will use blogs to convey information, sometimes in conventional ways, sometimes not-so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maybe they want that blogging Pulitzer « BuzzMachine] Reference

The story is told not so much in conventional narrative form, but in hints and intimations.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: DVD. The Double Life of Véronique.] Reference

We have another initiative which is we call our conventional redevelopment of non-resources.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

SCHNEIDER: Kerry is sometimes described as a conventional candidate, like Walter Mondale in 1984.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2004] Reference

Slightly more conventional is his ¾ - length felt pea coat with a zipper at the waist, £ 1,495.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Winter Coat] Reference

Along with our allies, we would be expected to carry a share of any increase in conventional forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Arms Control: Canada and the Western Alliance in 1987] Reference

And you challenged what some called the conventional wisdom about illegal immigration in this country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Listeners Sound Off On Immigration, Shirley Sherrod] Reference

Bombing (or whatever) people into submission might work in conventional warfare, not fanatical terrorism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Rumsfeld: War Critics Being Manipulated By Zarqawi and Bin Laden’s ‘Media Committees’] Reference

It was difficult to avoid retrospect, but Bridget seemed determined to keep it within conventional limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land] Reference

"Glad to meet you, Graham Womble," he said in conventional tones, as though acknowledging an introduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day's Lodging] Reference

New technologies are enabling these countries to skip over what were major milestones in conventional cycles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Without Boundaries] Reference

“Bombing (or whatever) people into submission might work in conventional warfare, not fanatical terrorism.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Rumsfeld: War Critics Being Manipulated By Zarqawi and Bin Laden’s ‘Media Committees’] Reference

Prolonged exposure to a wide range of hormonal ingredients in conventional cosmetics and personal care products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel S. Epstein: Breast Cancer Unawareness Month: Rethinking Mammograms] Reference

But if such costs were omitted from measurement, as they still are in conventional accounts, so were some returns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Kuznets - Prize Lecture] Reference

Short longer-term conventional gilts (post QE) - Short sterling (watch out for sterling's PPP though) - Buy gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

Thanksgiving 1965, for the first time, regular North Vietnamese regiments engaged in conventional battle with U.S. forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClelland, Paul T. Jr.] Reference

For the energy industry, it will certainly provide an incentive to increase investment in conventional oil and gas activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy: The New Challenges and Opportunities] Reference

The trio is in conventional style for the late 1940s, but the sixteen-year-old voice is moaning the blues like a sixty-year-old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord’s Music and the Devil’s Words] Reference

Parlor politeness – and something more; something infinitely finer and better than mere obedience to certain conventional rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference

It may make them “bad” writers by certain conventional standards but its part of what makes them more than worthy of scrutiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethics and Enthusiasm] Reference

Regent's catalogue includes a passage describing its philosophy of education, which is phrased in conventional evangelical language.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warring Visions of the Religious Right] Reference

We are putting all our resources into winning a right that only the few of us in long-term conventional couple relationships will enjoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Ostertag: Gay Marriage, Part 2] Reference