Sentence examples for flouting of convention from inspiring English sources
Yet there is an early and influential precedent for Eugenides's apparently "postmodern" flouting of convention.
The antics and flouting of convention, like the clapping that the nationalists have brought to Westminster from Holyrood, may soon pall.
While reading a biography of Franz Liszt, with whom Montez had had an affair, Mr. Seymour was captivated by her audacity and flouting of convention.
People who do not read poetry will think of Millay's story as the archetypal Poet's Life -- the obscure beginnings, the firework rise to fame, the flouting of convention, the tangle of sex and drugs, the haywire slump, the forsaken end.
So incensed is Elaine by this flouting of convention that she buys her a bra for her birthday, only to find that, to her utter infuriation, Sue Ellen is wearing it with a blazer and nothing else.
A lovingly rendered, subtly acerbic portrait of New York City's upper crust in the late 19th century, the film revolves around the unconsummated love affair between sensitive lawyer Newland Archer Daniell Day-Lewis) and Countess Ellen Olenska Michelle Pfeifferr), whose separation from her brutish husband and general flouting of convention are a scandal proper society cannot tolerate.
And for decades she startled respectable society -- even as she helped transform it -- with her flouting of conventions, both onstage and off.
Perhaps some readers flinch from the novelist's flouting of realist convention in parts of The Falls.
Haydn turns this movement into a miniature musical roller-coaster of the flouting of classical conventions.
His vandalism of Britain's unwritten constitution and his serial flouting of the conventions that made it work have transformed it into the plaything of the government of the day.
Posthumous notoriety was to follow as Wollstonecraft became identified only with the Vindication of the Rights of Woman and that work was ironically, in turn, equated with a flouting of social conventions, principally in relation to marriage.
