Sentence examples for challenging convention from inspiring English sources

A sceptical voice, the child questioning the adult, the artist challenging convention, the individual challenging authority; casting doubt on infallibility and the imposition of authoritarian control.

He says: "We pride ourselves in challenging convention through design.

In London, she is challenging convention as a favorite to win another Olympic medal on vault.

As always, Mr. Lüpertz is challenging convention, or as his admirers say, confounding expectations.

The lobby is filled with tottering elderly people whose wild hair, mismatched clothes and keen gazes bespeak not madness or age but rather a lifetime of challenging convention.

Does Britain's first female prime minister fulfil the museum's criteria of radicalism, such as believing in ideas worth fighting for and challenging convention?

"As a brand, when we started out, we were challenging conventions," Mr. Westphal said.

Yet this piece – like all of the symphonies in this series – is, at every point, challenging conventions even while it fulfils them.

In effect, Hall has brought his awareness of and connection to people with a diagnosis to a much broader audience while challenging conventions around mental health.

In a culture that prizes and nurtures conformity, challenging conventions and beliefs is anathema, said writers, political scientists, social workers, students and educators at and beyond the conference.

The contrarian Rivers was at his best when challenging conventions — aesthetic, sexual and otherwise — and the subject of a lovely young woman evidently did not give him enough to work with.