For all his conventionally liberal tone, Mr. Bradley's speeches this month have held chords of profound pessimism.

And Bush's ostensibly conservative ideas could turn out to be more effectively liberal than Bradley's more conventionally liberal ones.

Up until the 1990s, Hicks views were conventionally liberal.

He talks with patriotic pride about how the Government should behave, in a way that is neither conventionally liberal nor conservative.

Simon remained conventionally liberal until the 1990s when he began asking questions in response to events such as the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

While his views may be conventionally liberal, Gladwell takes an unconventional tack in reporting.

It concerns the well-intentioned, conventionally liberal Rose Keep, who attempts to offer solace to two Polish brothers, refugees from the war.

He offered his plan as a "third way" between conventionally liberal and conservative approaches to the problems of the health care system.

The authors' suggestions for how to solve the problems are not conventionally liberal.

At that time, political thinking in America was largely and conventionally liberal.