Then, too, it was inevitable that the typist or printer would conventionalize Joyce's mannered punctuation and spelling. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Word in 'Ulysses'] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
They're just going to disorganize me, conventionalize me completely. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
I'll just make studies now, and this winter I'll conventionalize them and work them into patterns. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvester] Reference
We do not separate the features as frequently as did that ancient people, but we conventionalize them as often. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference
"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. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Billy -- Married] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter VI] Reference
Therefore, whenever you want to know whether you have got any real power of composition or adaptation in ornament, don't be content with sticking leaves together by the ends, -- anybody can do that; but try to conventionalize a butcher's or a greengrocer's, with. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Paths] Reference
With a wondering grunt, the other complied, unrolling several small sheets of photographer's printing-out paper, to which several extraordinarily complicated and minute designs had been transferred -- strongly resembling laborious efforts to conventionalize a spider's web. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Wolf A Melodrama] Reference
Even the girl's common pink print dress with its high sleeves and shoulders could not conventionalize these original outlines; and the hand that rested stiffly on the back of her chair, albeit neither over-white nor well kept, looked as if it had never held anything but a lyre, a rose, or a good book. From Wordnik.com. [A First Family of Tasajara] Reference
Surfeited with the eccentricities and far-fetched conceits of the Marinists, the exiled Englishmen welcomed the change; they espoused the French principles; and when at the Restoration they returned to England with their king, whose taste had been trained in the same school, they began at once to formalize and conventionalize English poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Palamon and Arcite] Reference
They’re just going to disorganize me, conventionalize me completely. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
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