Sentence examples for not of straight from inspiring English sources

The same is true of those with disabilities, those who are not of "straight" sexual orientation, those with minority religious beliefs and, in some circumstances, "older" or "younger" people.

The satirical edge becomes sharper still in the brilliant After Martial (1972), which is made up not of straight translations of the Epigrams so much as fleshings-out of the originals, recreations in a modern idiom of those scathing pen-portraits of imperial Rome.

Teachers plucked him from third grade and plopped him into the fourth, not because of straight A's but because he wasn't paying attention.

"Our culture is unique … we're not part of straight culture.

Charles Johnson, an aerospace engineer had a practical suggestion many people might not think of straight away.

And let me tell you, from the reaction my book got from some quarters, Americans do not like to talk openly about our love of sex, especially if it is not of the straight-up missionary kind.

Organiser Dean Everitt said: "I think there's been a lot of waffle going on and not a lot of straight answers.

Not, of course, a straight Bob Dylan biopic - No Direction Home did that job - but a kind of dissertation on elusiveness or a winding roadmap to the Zimmerman soul.

First, the group tackled the wall of "not straight" lines, with Stephen Grossman of Artspace making the initial line in black.

Again, safe, noncontroversial and with the added bonus of not requiring straight people to think of gay couples standing too close together.

Most portraits are shot under photographer-controlled conditions, but this work did not have the feel of straight portraiture.