Sentences with phrase «in conventional sense»

Custom homes don't involve the work of a professional land developer subdividing a property, and some people may not think of them as sitting on lots in the conventional sense.

«These [start - ups] are not factories in the conventional sense; there are no smokestacks,» Anderson said.

While her upcoming promotion to manager seemed to fit in the conventional sense of getting ahead, the CPA job meant that she worked long hours, spent more time with her computer than with people, and was stuck in the office for 12 hours at a time.

Described as a «Windows TV box + desktop tablet», it's not really a tablet in the conventional sense, nor is it quite a desktop PC.

In the conventional sense, Bitcoin transactions are incredibly secure.

Looking at the US - China relationship through the lens of «winning without fighting» and nuclear risk suggests that the way for America to «win'this Thucydidean struggle is: «don't try to win in a conventional sense, but instead redefine winning».

It has a musical arc of its own, but it's not a «song» in any conventional sense.

Most policyholders understand this and appreciate that life insurance isn't intended to be an «investment» in the conventional sense.

Given that nearly all the action is surrounding «what to do about if it is true» and that this is not «science» in any conventional sense.

Journalists reported that the delegation from the United States, while conservative in the conventional sense, played a more constructive role than in previous IPCC meetings.

In the first section, it was argued that it is impossible to assess the skill (in the conventional sense) of current climate forecasts.

The vast majority of the posters want continued «prosperity» (in the conventional sense) and growth.

This is a «feedback» in the conventional sense of term.

We see from how British Columbia did it that it is administratively feasible (indeed, not just no cost, but net savings) to exclude lucrative access to CO2E emission by imposing a fee at the retail level using the retail tax system, even though this fee itself is not a tax in the conventional sense.

Harold, I agree that there is a lot of good stuff on blogs that is not peer reviewed in the conventional sense (I hope my essays at Climate Etc. are regarded in this way).

The locus of these points would not be a supply curve in any conventional sense.

CO2 is not a pollutant in the conventional sense.

Executed in layers of acrylic that Diao painstakingly lays on by hand with a knife, they are monochromatic and not expressive in any conventional sense, while also revealing the presence of the artist's hand, which is betrayed by the painterly incident that is evident upon close examination.

Yet the performances, save for the final two, weren't actually her own — at least, not in the conventional sense.

Neither an artist project nor a curated group exhibition in the conventional sense, The Collective Foundation exhibition presented a research and development organization via six experimental programs, mini-exhibitions and related partner projects.

Rather than paint in the conventional sense of the term, Bradford takes the detritus of urban visual culture as the conduit through which life enters art.

Although not calligraphic in a conventional sense, he draws the words in this series as much as writes them, in some cases surrounding them with intricately hatched textures to create a kind of abstract illuminated manuscript.

In doing so, words no longer performed as linguistic signifiers in a conventional sense but were instead imbibed with form and a self - referential status that opened up a more fluid space for interpretation.

The Collectors is not a group show in the conventional sense.

It also follows, that my abstract work has an inherit deconstruction to its imagery, as well as shape, and form are non-recognisable in the conventional sense.

Laube approaches his art with a traditional concept of painting on his mind, where his treatment of color, its application and the technique used are all based on the painting in a conventional sense.

No, I'm not wealthy in the conventional sense.»

«I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense,» says Diller, 63, who met her then tutor Ricardo Scofidio, now 82, while studying at the Cooper Union in New York in the 1970s.

The show isn't really a dialogue, in the conventional sense.

It might not be «theatrical» in the conventional sense, but in art, it's the viewer onstage with the object, for sure.

Unlike a lot of my cartoonist heroes (Steinberg, Gorey etc) David can't draw to save his life, at least, not in the conventional sense.

No one who would use a level editor would give a toss whether it was fun to use in a conventional sense.

Well, not in the conventional sense.

Happy Action Theatre (HAT) isn't a game in the conventional sense, there are no scores to beat for the most part, no goals to achieve and no storyline to follow.

In cats, signs of heart disease may be very subtle as cats are very good at hiding just how sick they may be and they tend not to exercise in the conventional sense at least when compared to dogs, with most cats perfectly happy to spend their days lounging in a comfortable bed.

This is not only limited to the sale of homes in a conventional sense where realtors are negotiating on behalf of their clients, it happens in foreclosure cases, as well.

This may indeed happen, but hoping that you happen to retire at the right time in the ecomonic and inflation cycle isn't really a plan in the conventional sense of the word, now it is?

And investing over 20 years is less risky than investing over a shorter period, in a way, but it is not diversifying in the conventional sense.

In order for a self - published book to transition to commercial success — as in, get an offer from a reputable agent and / or a commercial publisher — it must fulfill an essential criteria: it must be publishable (which is a somewhat different thing from whether it's «good» in any conventional sense).

We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense.

Although everyone calls it the Big Bang, many books caution us not to think of it as an explosion in the conventional sense.

Such a keyboard would not be comfortable for use in the conventional sense but might prove effective for thumb typing.

It's not a love story in the conventional sense perhaps but I sense that Linda has a very deep love for Patra.

You could say they operate less as editors (in the conventional sense of the word), more as a gateway to the production and marketing machine behind their brand.

Samsung is still betting big digital publishing, but not in the conventional sense.

This makes it tremendously lightweight and has been firmly embraced by medical, legal and the entertainment industry.This device does not have an eBook store and doesn't even read eBooks, in the conventional sense.

But the steel ball, known as the «shot,» isn't thrown in a conventional sense.

it is more than courses in a conventional sense,

Magic Magic may not be a horror movie in the conventional sense, but as a vivid depiction of the downward spiral of mental illness, it's unrelentingly scary.

The final shot is the stuff of nightmares, albeit not in the conventional sense — it delivers nothing but the implication that madness begins once the mind rejects its own inherent darkness.