How to Use conventionality in a Sentence

conventionality

noun
  • But the largest fault of the play may be its conventionality.
    — Christian Lewis, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • What's harder to overlook is the kind of uninspired conventionality that should frighten more intrepid eaters.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 24 Aug. 2017
  • None of the other films depict a Black point of view, which makes this one rather disappointing in its conventionality.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
  • One is the doctrine of conventionality control, which is contested by some scholars.
    — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The 1950s are now remembered as an age of wan conventionality.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
  • One gave me a unique, unusual independence; a heightened way of seeing the world; a model for how to buck conventionality and become an artist.
    — Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 18 May 2017
  • But at its best (admittedly, rare), this movement stands as an anarchic rejoinder to conventionality of all kinds.
    — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • WeWork gets credit for being a disrupter of sorts, and the company certainly has played up its lack of conventionality.
    — Lauren Silva Laughlin, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2019
  • Yet beneath the middlebrow situational conventionality, there’s a core of raw feeling and truth to it.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That began to change in the prosperous, back-to-conventionality Eisenhower era.
    — oregonlive, 11 May 2022
  • That conventionality makes these people more rather than less like us, which is salutary for human beings politically regarded as aliens.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
  • In a sea of eye-numbing conventionality, a maverick appearance is their signature.
    — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Messiness releases you from conventionality and thus inspires fresh insights.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 2 June 2022
  • The last thing her fans might have expected from a Britney Spears musical is dutiful conventionality.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • This violence was societal rather than personal, for his parents were people of strict conventionality and religion.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But its conventionality ended there.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • One of the men, Helmut, is seemingly the epitome of conventionality; the other, Klaus, is outwardly hip.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • This is not the kind of approach that usually inspires confidence; a sure route to conventionality is empty experimentation.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Mckenna Grace has a vibrant conventionality.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The film also explores the seminal influences of Esquerita and Billy Wright, performers who pushed the edge of conventionality at the same time.
    — Brad Auerbach, SPIN, 3 May 2023
  • One of cinema’s great smolders ensues, as Archer — a helpless cog in high-class society’s machine of repression and conventionality — struggles mightily to keep his passions under wraps.
    — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Biden’s initial round of hires disappointed some of the most ardent liberals, but Rubio’s acerbic reaction underscores the downsides of conventionality.
    — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 24 Nov. 2020
  • To be sure, there’s a familiarity to that Heart Of Darkness setup — and Roy’s whispered, on-the-nose voiceover often adds another level of conventionality.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Collins, who died on April 28 at the age of 90, dutifully performed the public acts required of a person who had achieved unfathomable distinction, but in a manner that defied conventionality.
    — Nathan Wurtzel, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
  • But while there's no question the real Jesse Brown endured unimaginable bigotry, Devotion approaches these altercations with a musty conventionality.
    — Tim Grierson, Chron, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The crimes that shock him out of his comfortable conventionality come from real-life murderers David Berkowitz and Edmund Kemper, whose chaotic relationships with women have manifested into a systemic gruesomeness that lacks clear motives.
    — Paige S. Allen, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Oct. 2017
  • His brother, Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch), unbridled and terrifyingly intelligent, wants nothing to do with George’s conventionality.
    — Vogue, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Physical order produces healthy choices, generosity, and conventionality, whereas disorder produces creativity.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2013

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