nonconformist

Example Sentences

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In Salar Abdoh’s Tehran, a city more populous than New York City, the vagaries of the human heart create a surprisingly unbridled and nonconformist tableau against a backdrop most Westerners view as monolithic, repressive, theocratic.

From Seattle Times

Are you looking for a nonconformist family vacation that teaches your kids radical self-reliance, self-expression, decommodification, participation and survival?

From Los Angeles Times

He was brilliant, proudly nonconformist and intensely private.

From New York Times

But he was also proudly nonconformist — refusing to use social media or buy new clothes — and intensely private, disappearing into his study to do work he wouldn’t discuss.

From New York Times

The couple added that they intend to never turn someone away because of cost, describing it as a “nontraditional, nonconformist, sliding-scale wedding chapel.”

From Los Angeles Times