Sentence examples for defiance convention from inspiring English sources

He is not one of Mr. Roth's conflicted heroes, like Nathan Zuckerman or Alexander Portnoy, who find themselves torn between duty and defiance, convention and transgression.

Pollock's bold swooping brushstrokes and daring defiance of convention are a Hollywood convention: a lazy shorthand for "different".

His defiance of convention was his downfall.

A biography of the prolific French writer whose life was spent in defiance of convention.

He really has inherited his father's rugged individualism, defiance of convention and hunger for distant horizons.

Throughout the primary and Presidential campaigns, he succeeded in no small measure because of his defiance of convention.

Ms. Davis's Sand had a nimble, confident swagger in keeping with the character's blithe, theatrical defiance of convention.

I suppose there's some sort of old-school feminist defiance of convention in a woman announcing that she's shagged dozens of men.

His rigid adherence to an antique style of sonnet writing and his defiance of convention certainly make him an exceptional 20th-century figure.

In Peter Mattei's invigorating portrayal, Don Giovanni's defiance of convention and boldness in the face of death are outward signs of an inextinguishable energy that animates him and those around him.

But she also knew what it was to demand independence, and try to live an authentic life in defiance of convention, so that Noël Coward judged her "the most genuine Bohemian I had ever seen".