conventionalize

How To Use conventionalize In A Sentence

• The designs may become so conventionalized that they are unrecognizable to all but the original artist. Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part Four
• A person's knowledge of a language consists, precisely, in knowledge of idioms, that is, conventionalized form-meaning relations, at varying levels of generality.
• It is an actual example of "realism" unencumbered and applied with great rigor, and it is likely to unmoor the assumptions of those readers tied to a more conventionalized, less ascetic understanding of the role of "realistic" dialogue. Narrative Strategies
• It is an actual example of "realism" unencumbered and applied with great rigor, and it is likely to unmoor the assumptions of those readers tied to a more conventionalized, less ascetic understanding of the role of "realistic" dialogue. Narrative Strategies
• He refused to have his portrait conventionalized into the customary smooth beauty of the pharaoh god.
• It has the look of the inter-war year, when Gothic revival had become canonical, if not quite conventionalized. St. Mary of the Lake, Door Peninsula, Wisconsin
• I'll just make studies now, and this winter I'll conventionalize them and work them into patterns. The Harvester
• The main thing that fascinates in Frye is exactly his basic assumption - the quasi-anthropological approach he takes to literature, tracing its beginning to the two sides of an endlessly spinning coin - ritual and prophetic epiphany, and how they gave rise to mythmaking, and later - to the more familiar conventionalized forms of literature. Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
• 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. Miss Billy -- Married
• It must also be pointed out that there is a close likeness between some of these so-called conventionalized figures of birds and those of moths or butterflies. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744