We forget that our time scale is purely conventional," he was saying, "and that all events are pretty much simultaneous.

The term was purely conventional - and vague.

Except for that, the room has, as you know, lost all sinister reputation, and its title of 'haunted' has become purely conventional.

The marble herm figure with the bearded head of philosopher type, bearing the explicit inscription, must be taken as purely conventional.

The W73 was cancelled in 1970 in favor of a purely conventional warhead for the Condor.

Thinking and reasoning are of no help because they are purely conventional.

Symbolic modes of signs are signs that do not resemble the signified; they are arbitrary or purely conventional.

It is possible that some of these linear forms may not be derived from hieroglyphs, but from purely conventional geometrical forms.

You don't want to say it's purely conventional munitions and miss the chemical munitions.