| Even enjoying someone's company becomes loaded with expectation and social convention, fears that this will lead to that, and then, bang! |
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| There are many places where photography is prohibited by law, many other places where it is prohibited by social convention and human decency. |
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| The column was both insightful in its full view of an issue, and brave in going against social convention. |
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| But, and there is the rub, every member of the Cabinet is expected by acceptable social convention to then go out and promote and defend what has been pronounced. |
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| She raised her lips and eyebrows in a coy pout that I couldn't resist, so I broke all known social convention and filled her martini glass with scotch. |
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| Yet their standard of living derives, not from their caring work, but from the social convention that family members share family resources on a more or less equal basis. |
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| When there is separation from the familiar, when there is escape from the habitual, rules of social convention are not enforceable with the same efficacy as at home. |
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| Or is this all about the social convention of eating that leads to expelling waste? |
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| The outsider is a kind of Romantic hero, an escapee from the effects of social convention. |
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| It has become a social convention in Pakistan that dance is immoral, even sinful. |
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| Boston is a complex city with a fascinating set of inbred politics and social convention. |
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| To understand how a social convention might be transformed, it is helpful to use a simple metaphor. |
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| Here those favoring the wealthy are following social convention and may even see themselves securing the benefaction of the patron for the church. |
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| Again and again he defied social convention, often by showing concern for the very people who were normally despised or marginalized by respectable society. |
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| These latter qualities are often smothered by social convention and cultural prejudice which converge to constrain us from realising our full potential. |
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| The proper wearing of hats was governed by strict rules of etiquette and social convention. |
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| It operates as a social convention and a social norm, and is held in place by reciprocal expectations within those communities. |
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| In many cultures, the giving of gifts is an important social convention, and it is considered impolite or even insulting to refuse a gift. |
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| Boldly unconventional and cheerful, Babou has never cared much for social convention. |
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| Are disagreements over noise regulated by city bylaws, social convention, or both? |
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| His looks are laced with humour, smashing taboos and flying in the face of social convention. |
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| Examine the social convention of being late for appointments or keeping someone waiting or a service. |
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| They are no longer restrained by social convention from seeking the type of work that most satisfies them. |
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| Copyright is only social convention, and the only reason to allow someone absolute control of their writing is for social reasons. |
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| He gives solid reasons for denying that the sense of moral obligation could arise from a herd instinct, from social convention, or from a Freudian superego. |
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| It summarizes findings from research on the reasons why the practice continues, highlighting that the practice is a social convention which can only be changed through coordinated collective action by practising communities. |
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| Soldiers, more so than members of Canadian society, are influenced to follow social convention by their desire to impress others, thereby achieving goals, presumably through promotion. |
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| He yearns to lead a happy life, free from the constraints of social convention, but it is a dream he cannot share with his fiancée, the haughty and noble Bathilde. |
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| Again, this suggests that every system for assigning shares of aggregate income to individual jobs is to a certain extent a matter of social convention. |
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| The very name that he chose for himself defied social convention. |
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| He loathed gentility and social convention. |
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| It has been described as a social convention, like language, useful to one largely because it is useful to others. |
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| Exactly who had a right to use arms, by law or social convention, varied to some degree between countries. |
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| On debating this obvious statement, it becomes clear that insofar as patriarchy is a cultural and social convention, it is subject to rectification, reform or replacement with a different cultural and social construct. |
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| They differ on whether the race concept remains a meaningful and useful social convention. |
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| Human language has the properties of productivity and displacement, and relies entirely on social convention and learning. |
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| Sign forms must be something that can be perceived, for example, in sounds, images, or gestures, and then related to a specific meaning by social convention. |
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| The semantic study of meaning assumes that meaning is located in a relation between signs and meanings that are firmly established through social convention. |
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