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Example sentences for: conventions

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For some reason, teen flicks died out for a while after Heathers --perhaps because it took the conventions of the form as far as they could go.
New principles might draw upon Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions on the law of armed conflict.
Under current conventions the Postal Service sets prices for whole subclasses and cannot select specific customers for surcharges or discounts.
In other words, Americans (true to myth, we're all cowboys) are good at busting up established conventions, and Brits (who actually read books) are good at finding metaphorical meaning in the forms that we over here conceived.
It can't, of course, which is the problem with mainstream horror pictures: The more deliriously abstract and unhinged their imagery, the more of a clunk there is when the evil actually materializes and the genre conventions kick in.