Sentence examples for broke taboo from inspiring English sources
The headmaster emphasised the superiority of English culture and government, but Mandela became increasingly interested in native African culture, making his first non-Xhosa friend, a Sotho language-speaker, and coming under the influence of one of his favourite teachers, a Xhosa who broke taboo by marrying a Sotho.
Tennessee Claflin, soon joined by her sister, broke other sexual taboos by wearing mens apparelbusiness jacket, vest, and tiewith shorter, ankle-length skirts.
But he was also reminiscent of the older comics who once roamed the Catskills, those dark and angry men who provided a cathartic outlet for harsh ideas that both broke and reinforced taboos, about the war between men and women, especially.
Robert Hofler is author of the new book Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos, the Allan Carr bio Party Animals and the Henry Willson bio The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson.
