Sentence examples for Nonconformist to from inspiring English sources

These sometimes erotic postcard texts were sufficiently nonconformist to prompt Berg to use them as background for even-less traditional music than he had composed in the past.

Phil Tufnell, a spin bowler for Middlesex and England who retired in 2003, was perhaps the last nonconformist to wear an England shirt (training regime: cigarettes).

Too much of a nonconformist to remain among her fellow nonconformists in the Village, Neel eventually moved way uptown, raising her two sons in a series of apartments in Spanish Harlem and Morningside Heights.

"It takes a nonconformist to excel at what we do," said Mr. Gillette, a tanned surfing aficionado who looks like a 1950s hipster in his T-shirts with rolled-up sleeves.

To this point in their short careers, Venus and her not-so-little sister Serena have been simultaneously enterprising and edgy, nonconformists to the core.

The causes of the Liberal Party, the Welsh nation, and Nonconformity were inseparable in the atmosphere in which Lloyd George was raised, and he first made his name by a successful battle in the courts to establish the right of Nonconformists to burial in the churchyard of their parish.

I'm not the type that Jon Ronson is describing – one who joins up with other so-called nonconformists to bully people with different views.

The existing law permitted nonconformists to take office if they took Anglican communion once a year.

Some people are nonconformist just to get attention and to be different.

Tracy McMillan, author of "Why You're Not Married" — who acknowledges the book could just as easily be called "Why You're Not in a Long-Term Relationship," but it's not as catchy — said having a faux spouse was a kind of nonconformist snub to all the people who decided to get married.

"His father encouraged each of his four sons — in the Jim Crow South — to be nonconformists willing to offer a tired African American woman the front seat of a bus," Sarah said.