nonconformist

Example Sentences

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The group set out to make “nonconformist hip-hop,” as Shock G told Spin magazine at the time.

From Los Angeles Times

In an era of professional specialists and self-declared experts, Said doggedly praised the amateur, the humanist who endeavored not to make audiences feel good but to be a nonconformist, embarrassing and roguish when it mattered.

From New York Times

Both are eccentric nonconformists in Franco’s Spain, oblivious to the Catholic Church and affiliations of social class and politics.

From New York Times

“What cinema does is to establish a conversation with reality, and that’s what makes it critical and nonconformist by nature, even if the themes are personal,” Valadez added.

From Los Angeles Times

With her budding medical skills, Ada is welcomed into this bank-robbing, feminist commune, which allows North to explore the nonconformist, queer and gender-fluid lives of brave and hunted people on the outskirts of society.

From Washington Post