Sentence examples for consciously broken from inspiring English sources

Both architecture and interior design in the 20th century have consciously broken with the many rules handed down from past eras.

I consciously broke away from that world, completely.

How can an outsider artist consciously break with artistic traditions they are supposed to be "outside" of, or "naive" about?

Partly because sitting in at a department-store lunch counter involved consciously breaking the law — and in a privately owned establishment where the proprietor presumably had a right to decide whom he would serve — it had been opposed by some people in the movement, not to speak of many people outside the movement.

Although he consciously broke with the Scholastic tradition while still quite young, its doctrines clearly made a lasting impression on him, and served him both as a font of ideas and a readily available target of criticism.

Only by consciously breaking this habit of gawping dread and awe for one type of attack above all others and focusing our attention on more routine tragedies can we hope to address the menace of large-scale gun violence plaguing the United States.

• To the Editor: By what standard is a law successful if it is consciously and repeatedly broken by nearly half of the citizens it is intended to govern?

Each day I consciously pause to take a break from the rush of life and hold her close and tell her that I love her, that I'm thankful she is my wife.

The ones who consciously and intentionally played by the rules or the ones who consciously and intentionally broke them?

Are you consciously looking to break the image?

He's very consciously trying to break away from being Michael's son.