Sentence examples for break from mainstream from inspiring English sources

Richard Gere plays a homeless man in Manhattan, Michael Douglas a big-game hunter who turns to murder, Chris Rock directs himself in the story of a comic turned actor struggling to prove his dramatic chops, and Adam Sander makes his first break from mainstream in 10 years to play a porn-addicted father.

Although the sound and production of this album is a break from mainstream, I would ask that you all listen to some late 90s hip-hop sounds from artists like Canibus before calling it innovative.

The Quakers began as a break from mainstream Protestant-Catholic teachings.

For nearly three decades, Michael Poole has been living on 17.5 acres of land on the western coast of British Columbia, where he's started an anarchist commune for young people looking to break away from mainstream society.

Over a decade ago, Davis made a radical break from the mainstream stage, in order to focus on the qualities that most moved her in dance: the body's rich and largely untapped capacity for subtle nuances of expression.

The F.L.D.S. broke off from mainstream Mormons after Mormons disavowed polygamy in 1890.

Fed up with vacuous slogans and broken promises from mainstream candidates, a large plurality (38.5percentt) of the electorate has elected Rodrigo Dutetre -- the firebrand mayor of Davao City, and a self-described "socialist" -- as the next president of the Republic of the Philippines.

YAN's mission here is a little odd – they want to break us free from mainstream media through video and reporting, etc. and they think they only need $2,000 to do so – and their perks, including T-shirts and mugs, seem to be a bit more like the things you'd get from the local public radio station than a nefarious organization purporting to shake the crown of power, but them's the breaks.

The sect broke from the mainstream Mormon Church after it rejected polygamy in 1890 and has since found itself in public legal battles over the practice.

He characterizes the cult as "the outpouring of the inner fantasies of about 200 very creative people" who broke from the mainstream, "recapitulating the origins of so many other religions, major and minor, throughout the history of our passionate and crazy species".

Trump, breaking from the mainstream positions held by most American policy makers, Republican and Democrat alike, declared that the United States should focus on fighting and defeating the Islamic State (ISIS) and not pursuing regime change in Syria.