Even the girl's common pink print dress with its high sleeves and shoulders could not conventionalize these original outlines; and the hand that rested stiffly on the back of her chair, albeit neither over-white nor well kept, looked as if it had never held anything but a lyre, a rose, or a good book.
"A First Family of Tasajara"
Bret Harte
He who keeps his eye more on the money box than artistic self-respect will little by little limit his choice of subjects and conventionalize his treatment of them because he is told or believes that the public will not stand for this or that.
"Dramatic Technique"
George Pierce Baker
Yet she did not know; she did not want to conventionalize him; there was something rather fine about his ruggedness.
"Partners of the Out-Trail"
Harold Bindloss