Example sentences:  

Ramayana: Ravana’s actions were so reprehensible that they shocked even the demons for whom demonic actions were normative. 

Mahabharata: The fateful gambling match hadn’t been played in the normative way: the dice hadn’t been cast by the person staking the money, Duryodhana, but by a professional gambler, Shakuni. 

Bhagavad-gita: Krishna reminded Arjuna that fighting was normative for a martial guardian of society — failure to fight would attract derision that would feel worse than death.