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Painters all over America had deduced from Abstract Expressionism that art, to be sincere, must be thick and splashy, so that the galleries were full of conventional signs for unconvention.

From Time Magazine Archive

A woman of your training perhaps cannot grasp the honesty of my unconvention.

From The Secret Witness by Gibbs, George

In Patricia's remarks there was the freshness of unconvention.

From Patricia Brent, Spinster by Jenkins, Herbert George

They had quarreled some days ago, for Mr. Pennington’s lazy humor had turned to a reckless unconvention which had somewhat startled her.

From The Maker of Opportunities by Gibbs, George

Between the two, in a period of scarcely more than three hundred years, there grew up and developed the ingenious and graceful pointed style, in all its fearlessness and unconvention.

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche