alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
2.
conventionalize - represent according to a conventional style; "a stylized female head"
artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
interpret, represent - create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl"
Perhaps the most important strategy in terms of the conventionalizing processes of Alber's argument is what he calls "the Zen way of reading," which "presupposes an attentive and stoic reader who repudiates the earlier explanations and simultaneously accepts both the strangeness of unnatural scenarios and the feelings of discomfort, fear, worry, and panic that they might evoke in her or him" (54).
If art is just a subset of language, then it too is subject to the cutting and pasting, the up and downloading, the dematerialization, the conventionalizing, and that inexorable movement toward speed, intelligibility, and commonality that characterizes language in its demotic forms.
Score by longtime Hillcoat collaborator Nick Cave and Warren Ellis borders on the treacly, softening the tone and further conventionalizing a film that should have gone the other direction toward something harsh and daring.
45), for instance, is illustrated in terms of the pragmatic and symbolic functions of a variety of premodern timing practices: from precolonial America and Africa (the former examined with reference to accounts of mainly French missionaries and the latter though an extended discussion of scenes from Achebe's novel, Arrow of God), Stonehenge (which archaeologists have shown to be a sociocentric and not simply helio- or theocentric timing device), Roman calendar reforms in the 4th century AD (conventionalizing the role of officials to "call out or announce" [calendare] a new moon), and the fine-tuning of leap years by Charles IX and Pope Gregory III in the 16th century (a task taken over in recent decades by the calculations of astronomers).
