Meanings of conventional conversation in English

Mr Vince appeared to be a young man who wasted no time on conventional conversation-openings.

She declined to help him when he tried to scramble back to the safe shores of conventional conversation.

She could not carry on the usual conventional conversation with this borderman, but remained silent for a time.

This was not gender-jostling, or stereotyping around insignificant subjects, conventional conversation about classic role definitions and prescriptions, nor social commentary beneficial to any gender.