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• v  make conventional or adapt to conventions
  conventionalized behavior
• v  represent according to a conventional style
• s  using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous

• The individuality that films like Birthday Girl and Forty Shades of Blue flung in the face of increasingly conventionalized studio production appealed to his romantic side; the .
• Her multiple plot lines are neatly braided and though her characters are conventionalized they are also charming and capable of surprising us.
• It is not hard for them to imagine a fairly near future--or an alternate contemporary reality--in which the conventionalized perils of Survivor begin to pall, and some TV producer .

• conventionalize
• conventionalise
• stylize
• stylise
• conventionalised
• stylized
• stylised

Quotes

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• Ralph Ellison in Seattle Times
  As leading black novelist Ralph Ellison wrote of Huck Finn, "He knew, as did Mark Twain, that Jim was not only a slave but a human being [and] a symbol of humanity ...... and in freeing Jim, Huck makes a bid to free himself of the conventionalized...