The names of people from Silk's home city of Viron follow rigid conventions.

Through Felt, Miller presents the supposition that monogamy is an unnatural and unattainable state imposed on men by rigid but unnecessary social convention.

Women do not have such a rigid convention, but they weighed in, as well, with pleas for silence when nature calls.

Away from the court, with its rigid conventions, they can look and speak and act as they never have before.

For example, in Northanger Abbey, she ridicules the plot improbabilities and rigid conventions of the Gothic novel.

(2) Rhune warfare is controlled by rigid convention.

Singhalissa glorifies rigid convention; I often feel that convention must apply to others but not me.

This juxtaposition of human evil with the innocent child may be a reaction to Japan's rigid social conventions.

Between achieves a balance between the mobility and indeterminacy inherent in the postulates of our post-Einsteinian age and the rigid conventions toward which mass culture tends.

The film openly tweaked the rigid conventions of the formula script.