21.   A variety of social conventions have put impediments in their way.

22.   All she really wanted, though, was to have the man denied her by social conventions and their different standings in life.

23.   But for Sumner his survival is a crushing capitulation to cowardice, to social convention.

24.   Centanni and his partners envision the bar as an experiment that turns social convention on its head.

25.   Cummings showed him how to make fun of stuffy social conventions and vapid consumerism.

26.   However, everything from sexual desire to narrow-minded social convention conspires against him.

27.   Inspired by gypsy dress, its tight waist, trim open jacket and towering mantilla were a way for upper-class and aristocratic women to flout social convention.

28.   Most Austen heroines are decent, noble young women whose chances for romantic bliss are threatened by the repressive social conventions of Georgian British society.

29.   On the other, some of the most revealing historical sources are disappearing from social convention.

30.   Shari Thurer, a psychology professor and authority on cultural studies at Boston University, says many women are more motivated by magazines and TV shows than social conventions.