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conventional
«When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman»
«The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.»
Author: John Corry
| Keywords:
buttress, buttresses, buttressing, churches, conventional, Gothic, grandeur, massive, spire, spires, stained
«The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
analyses, assumptions, conventional, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, evaluate, evaluated, examine, formation, formations, habitual, institutions, mould, participate, playing field, political institutions, re-examine, shake up
«Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| About:
Loneliness
| Keywords:
conventional, hugs, mask, naked, outcast, terror, The Lonely, wears
«The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
| About:
Flattery,
Language
| Keywords:
circuitous, conventional, flattery, habitude, offending, pleasing
«The social molds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to real star patterns»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
conventional, molds, shapes, social relations
