Sentence examples for an unorthodox background from inspiring English sources

One: Mr. Wondrich has an unorthodox background.

He admits having an "unorthodox background" for a Tory MP, after spending the first five years of his life in a Victorian orphanage in Hereford.

That is a suitably unorthodox background for a ground-breaking rugby league appointment, which follows the trail blazed by Sir Clive Woodward who described the round-the-world yachtsman turned motivational guru Humphrey Walters as a key figure behind England's World Cup success in Australia in the other rugby code five years ago.

"I guarantee we're the only nondenominational Christian bookstore in the world that hosts an interfaith sacred book salon led by an atheist Jew who was educated at a liberal Methodist seminary," he explained, offering a hint of his own unorthodox background.

Beyond mere star power, Mrs. Clinton's backers say that her unorthodox background masks diplomatic skills that many of her predecessors in the job did not have.

Other times, potentially great employees are overlooked because they have unorthodox backgrounds that don't match up with what an employer thinks they need in terms of experience.

A combination of family background and instinct led him to an unorthodox training, at fringe evangelical colleges in south Wales and mid-America.

Its nearest relative is probably something such as Van Etten's Serpents, another song in which guitars seethe and rub against an unorthodox vocal melody and a relationship explodes in the background.

With a background in plays and classics, Mr. Speciale may have seemed an unorthodox choice for the new production, but he said the job was the result of an instant connection at an interview last fall.

It was an unorthodox education.

It is an unorthodox approach.