A collection of these villains' speeches would illustrate theconventionalized character of eighteenth century tragedy and the tendency of stage types to perpetuate themselves in theatrical tradition.
It was half-hearted, turning now to Shakespeare, now to Voltaire, but never producing anything not conventionalized and dull.
This is a highlyconventionalized type of the motif and, though it is found in great numbers in modern fiction, is not particularly important.
Her attributes have been less conventionalized than those of her youthful companions who are merely under the imputation of black art, and she possesses a diabolic individuality.
Odors seem less subjective than sights or sounds, and are not so conventionalized in ghostly fiction, hence when they are cleverly evoked they are unusually effective.
Though the class became conventionalized to an absurd degree and the later examples are laughable, while a host of imitations made the type ridiculous, the Gothic novel has an undeniable force.
From the many examples collected, we selected the following more or less conventionalized symbols: [Illustration: Fig.
All this in turn seems to support the interpretation that the band circle system is merely a conventionalized scheme of tribal government.
The vase filled with drooping sprays, flowers, and conventionalized buds forms an ideal centre for this wreath.
He refused to have his portrait conventionalized into the customary smooth beauty of the Pharaoh god, and his face looks out at us across an interval of thirty-four centuries, a man amidst ranks of divine insipidities.
It is not because they are highly conventionalized representations of natural forms which are themselves beautiful, but because they express cosmic truths.
A fret is a series of highly conventionalized spirals: translate it from angular to curved and we have the wave-band; isolate it and we have the volute.
Before this I had seen only the conventionalized and intricate glyph of the Toad God.
A black glass belt bound her narrow waist like clasped hands, and her robe, stark white, bore an ugly embroidery across the breasts, the flat sprawl of a conventionalized Toad God, Nebran.
Whoever bothers even to look at a conventionalized Toad God?
Rakhal looked at the conventionalized idols with curiosity, but said only, "Cover them up in the street, then.
A circular plaque decorated with a rosette (h) is very similar to those found at Mycenae, and a conventionalized eagle (k) is characteristic of much of the detail found at that place as well as at Hissarlik.
The other wall was in a small entry-way, and had an abundance of semi-conventionalized flowers done in red, black, and browns.
Another side of same room, showing conventionalized water fall and bend in the river.
These are inclosed by a broad band or wreath of more or less conventionalized flowers.
In the top of the rug and extending from one side to the other, is a continuous festoon, made up of conventionalized buds and flowers of the lotus.
The other method of treating ornamental forms embraces a wide range of style of illuminating, approaching more nearly to Nature in treatment, the ornament being more or less shaded naturally, or conventionalized to some extent.
The decoration of this house is most interesting--a conventionalized Magnolia, and the garden is surrounded with splendid Magnolias and Crape Myrtles.
These analogies go still farther; the bases of the cross in the tablet and of the crosses in the paintings are made to rest upon a highly conventionalized figure of some mythical creature.
The scene is laid in the middle of a broad featureless plain, the monotony of which is broken by three highly conventionalized trees.
A very interesting feature of the design is the highly conventionalized wing, which is attached to the shoulder behind, and fills the space beneath the uplifted arm.
The ancient Mexican pictographic manuscripts abound in representations of trees, conventionalized in such a manner as to resemble crosses; these apparently take an important part in the scenes depicted.
It is engraved to represent the well-known scales and spots of the rattlesnake, the conventionalized figures being quite graphic.
The conventionalized eye is lozenge or diamond shaped, with a small conical pit for the pupil.
The cross here shown has a very highly conventionalized character, quite out of keeping with the realistic drawing of the insect, and, what is still more decisive, it is identical with forms found upon many other objects.
Inside of this again is another incised circle, about one and one-fourth inches in diameter, which incloses the highly conventionalizedfigure of an insect resembling a spider.
It is a thin blade of gold, pointed at one end and terminating at the other in a highly conventionalized representation of a bird's head, the general characteristics of which are much like those of the examples engraved upon shell.
From a very early date in mound exploration these gorgets have been brought to light, but the coiled serpent engraved upon their concave surfaces is so highly conventionalized that it was not at once recognized.
The eye and the markings of the head are executed in smooth, deeply incised lines, and are conventionalized in a manner peculiar to the American aborigines.
A design of undetermined significance occupies the space between the figures beneath the crossed arms; it may represent conventionalized drapery, but is more probably symbolic in its character.
The figure occupying the body panel is that of a very strangely conventionalized two tailed monkey and is enframed by a wide red line.
The figures appear to be very highly conventionalized animal forms, probably serpents.
This is a favorite figure in pottery decoration, and is found very abundantly on the exterior of food bowls; it represents highly conventionalized feathers, and should be so interpreted wherever found.
This band is decorated with highly conventionalized feathers.
It is one of those conventionalized pictures, the interpretation of which, with the scanty data at hand, must be largely theoretical.
The five bodies on the same end of the figure are unique and comparable with conventionalizedstar emblems.
The jar illustrated in plate CXLV, b, is ornamented with highly conventionalized figures on four sides, and is the only one taken from the Sikyatki cemeteries in which the designs are limited to the equatorial surface.
Figure d has no conventionalized feather decoration, but the curved line terminates with a triangle.
While, therefore, it can hardly be said there is absolute proof that these highly conventionalized figures always represent birds, we may, I think, be sure that either the bird or the moth or butterfly is generally intended.
The W form is wholly lost, and there is no resemblance to a bird, even in its most highly conventionalized forms.
We shall see its reappearance on other bowls decorated with more highly conventionalized bird figures.
On the inside of the ladle shown in plate CXXXI, c, there is a rectangular design with a conventionalized bird at each angle.
Many food bowls from Sikyatki are ornamented on their interior with highly conventionalized figures, generally of curved form, in which the feather is predominant.
Although local or imported deities were developed andconventionalized in rival Babylonian cities, they still retained traces of primitive conceptions.
This tree looks like a pillar, and is thrice crossed by conventionalized bull's horns tipped with ring symbols which may be stars, the highest pair of horns having a larger ring between them, but only partly shown as if it were a crescent.
As much is suggested by the resemblances which the conventionalized planetary deities bear to Tammuz, whose attributes they symbolized, and by the Egyptian conception that the sun, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars were manifestations of Horus.
These pictures may be so arranged andconventionalized as to convey a good deal of information.
Even the hieratic was too formal and cumbersome for the common people and was further abbreviated and conventionalized into an alphabet known as the demotic which was in common use among the Egyptians from about 1900 B.
The scribes, or writers, therefore developed a highly abbreviated and conventionalized form of hieroglyphic which could be easily written with a reed pen on papyrus, a writing material to be described presently.
The first two types were highly conventionalized and left very little to the "hand" as we now say of the individual writer.
Concurrently with this process the original picture has become conventionalized and abbreviated.
Metal armlet, ornamented with five rows of inlaid copper conventionalized cat-fishes and human faces; the latter have long hair, long whiskers, and long noses.
Another interesting feature of the design is the highly conventionalized wing which fills the space beneath the uplifted arm.
Furthermore, all these forms of behavior tend to become conventionalized and thus become relatively independent of individuals and of instincts.
The conventionalized form in which we now find them has arisen in the course of their repetition and transmission from one generation to another and from one culture group to another.
If flowers, foliage, or other natural objects are the motive, they should not be direct imitations of nature, but conventionalizedin obedience to the above rule.
Around the top of the room the owner painted a frieze of conventionalized pomegranates, which follow the color scheme of the woodwork and wall.
The iris, charming in nature and no less decorative in its conventionalized form, appears here and there in the carved woodwork and always gives a delicate twist to the Colonial design it embellishes.
The analogy between the present methods and the antiquated and conventionalized customs of those cumbersome and inadequate institutions is not difficult to find.
It is a portion of the reality of life shown vividly against a conventionalized background.
The conventionalized type averages from four to six feet in length with a uniform width of about fifteen inches from curve to heel.
