If this interpretation is correct-and, in spite of the slenderness of the evidence, I am inclined to accept it-it affords a remarkable illustration of the effects of culture-contact in the conventionalization of designs, to which Dr. Rivers has called attention.
"The Evolution of the Dragon"
G. Elliot Smith
Forever debarred all the wider possibilities of movement and poetry these would have given them for interior decoration, Moorish art necessarily stagnated to mere conventionalization of floral and natural subjects.
"Cathedrals of Spain"
John A. (John Allyne) Gade
They carry the restriction and conventionalization of the material of tragedy much farther than did the plays of Shirley and his contemporaries; and, somewhat before Racine, they confine the main course of tragedy to sentimental love.
"Tragedy"
Ashley H. Thorndike