Sentence examples for defy tradition from inspiring English sources

Or he could defy tradition and keep Mr Fillon on.

If Sunday's game in Ottawa does defy tradition by being worth paying attention to, it will because of who won't be there, starting with Alex Ovechkin.

I buy the idea of "Driving Miss Daisy": A grouchy Southern Jewish white widow and her soft-spoken black chauffeur defy tradition and become close friends as the civil rights movement changes the world around them.

In his appetite for the unusual, combined with his extraordinary prosodic virtuosity, he seems an unexpected precursor of W. H. Auden, another poet who sought not to defy tradition but to renovate and extend it.

But once she achieved enlightenment, she took two vows, the first, rather conventionally, to work for all beings until we are enlightened, and the second, rather more radically, to defy tradition of assuming some male form after being reincarnated and to serve others in female form.

But as far as addressing the old-school, true-bluegrass mentality, "We do defy tradition," O'Donovan proudly admitted.

Even the length of the typhoons is defying tradition".

"He has clearly defied tradition by tearing out the crankset.

Ms. Cuddy had no thought of defying tradition or making a statement of any kind.

Having defied tradition for most of his two decades in power, Malaysia's leader, Mahathir Mohamad, will step down late next year, his party announced on Tuesday June 25th.

(Tommasini) ★ Cameron Carpenter (Sunday) This trailblazing organist with an astonishing technique has forged his own path, defying tradition with performances that are as unique as the outfits he wears.