She is also an incredibly unconventional character for her time, placing a high value on her own happiness, insisting that others treat her with respect and marrying a man only on her terms.
I wanted Strike to have an odd name because his dead mother was a flamboyant, unconventional character who had only herself to please when it came to christening him.
She knew her father was a wildly unconventional character but was unaware how fragile and unstable he was.
This may be his most American quality: not his scientific sensibility or pioneering choice of subjects or any other cliché of nationalism, but the combination of his dogged, plain-spoken, almost puritanical realism with a simmering, unconventional character.
His most American quality may not be his scientific sensibility or pioneering choice of subjects or any other cliché of nationalism, but this combination of dogged, plain-spoken, almost puritanical realism with a simmering, unconventional character.
His most American quality, in the end, may not be his scientific sensibility or pioneering choice of subjects or any other cliché of nationalism, but this combination of dogged, plain-spoken, almost puritanical realism with a simmering, unconventional character.
The picture of a friendly, if rather unconventional character, is confirmed by others who knew him.
The success of Rudy's drove them to think bigger, towards the idea of creating a hotel with the same unconventional character that had inspired their barber shop chain.
The radical and unconventional character of Dewey's conception of democracy and his political philosophy generally derives from its boldness, which some readers find hard to stomach.
