conventionalizing

We find in their insufficiencies the same old assimilating of all that could be assimilated, and disregard for the unassimilable, conventionalizing into the explanation that vitrified forts were made by prehistoric peoples who built vast fires -- often remote from wood-supply -- to melt externally, and to cement together, the stones of their constructions.

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

Stamping and perforating: (_a_) Machine practice -- pedaling, guiding needle, threading machine, and learning to adjust the different parts. (_b_) Stamping on different materials with the different mediums; composition of the different mediums, liquid and dry. (_c_) Copying patterns for perforating; nature study for motifs; conventionalizing those to apply them to materials.

The Making of a Trade School Mary Schenck Woolman

Tümpel called attention to the fact that, when they set about conventionalizing the octopus, the Mycenæan artists often resorted to the practice of representing pairs of "arms" as units and so making four-limbed and three-limbed forms (Fig. 23), which Houssay regards as the prototypes of the swastika and the triskele respectively.

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

Collective representations are objective, in just the sense that public opinion is objective, and they impose themselves upon the individual as public opinion does, as relatively but not wholly external forces -- stabilizing, standardizing, conventionalizing, as well as stimulating, extending, and generalizing individual representations, percepts.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

This justifies the habit of conventionalizing natural forms, and the tendency of some kinds of hieratic art, like the Byzantine or Egyptian, to affect a rigid symmetry of posture.

The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907

They included labretifery, tattooing the chin of adult women, certain uses of masks, a certain style of conventionalizing natural objects, the use of conventional signs as hieroglyphics, a peculiar facility in carving wood and stone, a similarity of angular designs on their pottery and basketry, and of artistic representations connected with their common religious or mythological ideas.

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

Few and faint as are these tendencies towards caricaturing and conventionalizing as compared with what may be noted in the artistic productions of the Haidahs, Chinooks, and other tribes of the Northwest, they are yet sufficient to show that in these particulars no hard and fast line can be drawn between the art of the Indian and of the

Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166 1890

As to what Davidson might have become under the conventionalizing influences of an official position, it would be idle to speculate.

Memories and Studies William James 1876

Angelico, -- not, however, paying respect enough to the local colors, but conventionalizing the whole too much into outline.

Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859

Lange struggled against conventionalizing in her studio portraiture no less than in her documentary.

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