The suburban child may on the contrary be balked and restricted so that unnecessary mystery gives an unwholesome interest to these things and conventionality a dishonest reserve.

There is still a marked element of conventionality in her description of her life with Hector; but one feels, as she speaks, that she is already past it.

FOOTNOTES: "A German," he said, "could not live long in the atmosphere of Englandan atmosphere of sham, prudery, conventionality, and hollowness"!

The breaking-up of old associations, the opening of a fresh existence, the necessity of new relationships,this fuses the crust of conventionality, quickens the springs of life, and renders character sympathetic and fluent.

But, after all, her great power lay in her freedom from all affectation and conventionality,in her spontaneity, her free, sparkling, and vivacious manners.

Still now is the once active, fertile, stimulating mind of the man who so effectively roused his generation from its complacent smugness and indifference in its appreciation of the beautiful, and with ardent boldness challenged established beliefs in art and defied the conventionality and authority of his time.

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One is lost in wonder at the genius of the actors who could infuse life and passion into those masterpieces of turgid conventionality.

Moods of his pre-Weimar storm and stress vibrate in his Iphigeniafeverish unrest, defiance of conventionality, Titanic trust in his individual genius, self-reproach, and remorse for guilt toward those he loved,Friederike and Lili.

"Seen from afar," writes Mr. Moore, "all things in nature are of equal worth; and the meanest things, when viewed with the eyes of God, are raised to heights of tragic awe which conventionality would limit to the deaths of kings and patriots."

She wasand naturally, sincerely, instinctivelythe very incarnation and mouthpiece of the conventionality of society, as she cowered there in her grief and her quiet resentment.

And there is no relief, no surcease from utmost conventionality.

But conventionality is inexorable; and the St. Denis's great recommendation was its conventionality.

But conventionality is inexorable; and the St. Denis's great recommendation was its conventionality.

You mean, I suppose, a letter now and then, at the intervals which conventionality imposes at the beginning of a correspondence, possibly shortening as time goes on, but taking at least half a year to get under way.

To it may be largely attributed the more earnest study of Nature as well as the simplicity of treatment and lack of conventionality which now characterizes English art to an extent before unknown.

There was an entire absence of conventionality at our meetings, and this, compared with the somewhat stiff society of the village, was really an attraction.

Such an author requires a near "Smart Set" sparkle or a pseudo-Atlantic Monthly sobriety; he develops facility, but at the expense, ultimately, of conventionality, dullness and boredom.

Many unwomanly women have played their parts in the drama of Royal Courts, but scarcely one, not even those Messalinas, Catherine II. of Russia and Christina of Sweden, conducted herself with such a shameless disregard of conventionality as Marie Louise Elizabeth d'Orléans, known to fame as the Duchesse de Berry, who probably crowded within the brief space of her years more wickedness than any woman who was ever cradled in a palace.

JUAN, DON, a poem of Byron's, a work which, as Stopford Brooke remarks, "was written in bold revolt against all the conventionality of social morality, religion, and politics, and in whichescaped from his morbid self, he ran into the opposite extremehe claimed for himself and others absolute freedom of individual act and thought in opposition to the force of society which tends to make all men after one pattern.

In spite of her apparent friendliness, her irresistible smile, her lack of conventionality, there remained a certain reserve about the young woman he felt quite unable to penetrate.

She was apparently in the highest spirits, eager to overstep all conventionality.

Mr. Drake's words were commonplace, with much of the conventionality and platitude of prayer-meetings.

She seemed to feel him pleading with her, earnestly beseeching her, reasoning against prejudice, against the shackles of conventionality, against reason itself.

The whole modern theory arises from one fundamental mistakethe idea that romance is in some way a plaything with life, a figment, a conventionality, a thing upon the outside.