Sentences with phrase «conventional idea of success»

Grenville blithely leaves behind his idealism in favor of a more conventional idea of success, only to have his conscience pricked by Dalrymple's unconventional daughter, Charlotte, an activist for social justice, even as he's entering into a comfortable if passionless engagement with Dalrymple's other daughter, the passive, and much simpler, Emily.

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Turbulent times upend conventional thinking, and one of the most provocative ideas to surface in recent years is the doctrine of «free» — the idea that giving your product away is the surest, and perhaps only, path to success.
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