Any dash of mere conventionalism or self-seeking would spoil the whole.

These two little pictures thus become historically the first-fruits of the neo-pagan spirit which was gradually supplanting the older ecclesiastical thought, and Giorgione, once having cast conventionalism aside, readily turns to classical mythology to find subjects for the free play of fancy.

Institutional religion is always a compromise, a mediation between the lofty conceptions and impatient aspirations of the few who inspire the new life, and the low notions and contented conventionalisms of the many whom they seek to inspire.

Sculpture at this time in Rome had fallen into a miserable condition of degraded conventionalism and extravagance.

About the same time, there occurred one of the most glaring instances within my recollection of inept conventionalism.

This wretched conventionalism was met by a "Very," so obviously sarcastic, that Marcus Wilkeson decided not to utter a remark which was at that moment on his lips.