Sentence examples for nonconformist way from inspiring English sources

The term was adopted by dervishes who practiced a nonconformist way of life that rejected not only the world but also conventional piety, which they decried as hypocrisy.

During that time some musicians were against using your music in commercials but we thought it was a good opportunity to reach people that do not know of us, in a natural, nonconformist way".

No villains exist in director Torill Kove's Oscar-nominated animated short, Me and My Moulton, but if anyone comes close, it's the seven-year-old narrator's architect mother and father in their bohemian turtlenecks, whose nonconformist way of life makes it difficult for the girl to fit in with her peers in their small Norwegian suburb.

Gandhi's nonconformist ways tend to appall and alienate secular-minded observers.

Pachucas also had their own nonconformist style of dress.

Where his cosmopolitan, nonconformist interests and way of life rendered him suspect to many in his later years, he now appears prescient, too enlightened for his time.

He presses on his protégés copies of his favorite books, mostly classics of the fifties and sixties, which he keeps by the gross in a special closet: "Siddhartha," "The Catcher in the Rye," "A Confederacy of Dunces" — tales of nonconformists making their way in a monochrome world.

Changing yourself in order to become a nonconformist basically means you're conforming to the nonconformists.

He continued, "Over time it becomes a style of hipsterism, where everyone dresses the same and is nonconformist in the same way".

"I'm a nonconformist in every possible way of thinking about it," Mr. Miller said.

For those who are serious, like Mr. Pérez, Dominio do Bibei, D. Ventura and Guímaro, which by the way means nonconformist, the wines do all the talking.