He was a genuine rebel, not someone who, in Thom Gunn's phrase, 'turned revolt into style'.
He starred in the forgettable 1967 film Nashville Rebel, whose title proved to be prescient when a few years later he became a genuine rebel against the "countrypolitan" blandness of country music.
Germaine Greer is perhaps most influential Australian intellectual of the past century, and a genuine rebel who has annoyed everyone (and i mean everyone – even Julia Gillard) on a global scale.
Our whole culture does these days —. — as long as you're not dangerously weird; as long as you're not a genuine rebel; as long as you don't actually try to challenge anything important.
He/she tells Wells that she is "perverse... dissolute, self-centered, unfair, stubborn, sometimes miserly... [but] a genuine rebel, ever ready to incite others to rebellion.... [Y]ou are capable of loving someone just as they are, even a thief in that lies your only fidelity.
But the actor's record of portraying genuine bohemian rebels lends whatever he does a certain cachet.
The government said earlier that its proposal would offer the rebels "genuine autonomy" in exchange for the laying down of their arms.
"Kaufman was a romantic, a surrealist, a purveyor of kitsch and a genuine iconoclast and rebel," Carter B. Horsley, a former writer on architecture for The New York Times and The New York Post, said in a telephone interview on Friday.
Rebels are genuine, rather enjoy upsetting people, and do things their own way.
Farther north, however, ethnic Tamils are waiting for signs that the government will address what a Tamil politician named Douglas Devananda, who opposed the rebels, called their "genuine political grievances," chiefly a desire for greater political autonomy.
