I'm not sure if it transcends its time, but its primal fear of co-option and absorption into "the Borg" of conventionality is nerve-wracking. From Wordnik.com. [Friday YouTube: The Ending of Invasion of the Body Snatchers] Reference
It may be one kind of conventionality for some of us and another kind for others, but we are borne on by it all the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Associate Hermits] Reference
That love of the "niceness of conventionality," as. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
Their lack of conventionality does not tend to boorishness. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference
"That is what conventionality bids you say now," I replied. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
"She would certainly think I was defying all conventionality.". From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls First Appearances in Photo Dramas] Reference
Delightfully free from conventionality are matters in these new towns. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
A conventionality is not necessarily bad or contemptible merely as such. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"The truth, of course; we have not studied conventionality much, have we?". From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
Our submergence in a sea of conventionality of almost impenetrable density. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Face to face with the possibility of losing him, all her conventionality collapsed. From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
Oldham's countryish music, then, may be gradually approaching mature conventionality. From Wordnik.com. [Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and the Cairo Gang; Trembling Bells] Reference
The precious secret which she had thus braved conventionality to discover, was her own. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
She had expected him; there was not breathing-space for conventionality between these two. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
We bind him with cords of conventionality, and deliver him into the hands of the Philistines. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
"Do you think conventionality should be considered when your father's comfort is in question?" he asked. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
We might stop here and wonder at the mysterious conventionality that is influencing all our lives now-a-days. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
The great danger of the couplet thus treated is that of over-great conventionality, as was partly illustrated by. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
At fourteen he started to carve figures from the chalk that conventionality required to be used on blackboard problems. From Wordnik.com. [Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts] Reference
When one wants it he can get the same sort of conventionality at Ermenonville, and need not go so far afield to find it. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Chinese art, but the extreme of conventionality is certainly better than some of the daubs I have seen in American homes. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
It is a place where conventionality is laid aside and human beings meet on the common level of convivial good-fellowship. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
He spoke half-mockingly, and Diana, felt that within himself he was ridiculing her prim little notions of conventionality. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Folly] Reference
She shook her head, and I saw that the struggle between us had begun -- the struggle against her timidity and conventionality. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Instead of direct contact of personalities through the love confession as such, it is long-circuited through some conventionality. From Wordnik.com. [A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes] Reference
The riven fetters of caste and conventionality have dropped at their feet, and they sit together, patrician and plebeian, Catholic and. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
On the other hand, the copious use of such ornament has the disadvantage that it sometimes gives a tinge of conventionality to his work. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Not one man in a thousand could have made such a proposition without an immediate erection on my part of the barriers of conventionality. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
In "Nancy Stair" Mr. Potter even seemed to belittle opportunities that might have raised his play from the dull level of conventionality. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
"Forgive me if I dragged you out of your way," said Maynard, never swift to conventionality, but touched by the tired shadows in her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Perceiving that only a thin crust of conventionality protects organized society from the volcanic heats of anarchy, he was afraid of reformers. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
Barbary Coast was a part of San Francisco's Bohemianism because of its unconventionality, for, you know, there is conventionality even in Vice. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference
Music to him was not a conventionality but a passion -- not a rule, but a life -- and, when he sang, his melodies reached heights of beauty that. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
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