Sentence examples for off from conventional from inspiring English sources

And on the long-distance trails, whether paved or unpaved, you can feel pampered, yes, but you also feel sequestered, shut off from conventional — "real" — avenues of transportation.

Also, just because Beckett wrote in a manner that fenced itself fiercely off from conventional style, it doesn't mean he couldn't write in a manner that would be the envy of any writer in the land.

Four of the nation's largest military suppliers joined forces today to design an aerospace plane that would take off from conventional airports and then fly in orbit at 25 times the speed of sound.

Matthew Sweet with music for films about those cut off from conventional living.

Workers across Pennsylvania -- not just Pittsburgh -- know what is like to find a good-paying green job after getting laid off from conventional manufacturers.

If anything, The Moonies are more peaceful and don't molest alter boys! "When we label a group with the pejorative term cult, it makes us feel safe because the violence associated with religion is split off from conventional religions, projected onto others, and imagined to involve only aberrant groups.

The point, rather, is that he takes off from any conventional starting point and runs in the least predictable direction.

It set Montaigne apart, she notes, and gave him an independent mind but instilled a certain detachment and skepticism that cut him off from more conventional ambitions.

The ultimate goal would be a "reusable hypersonic cruise vehicle (HCV)... capable of taking off from a conventional military runway and striking targets 9,000 nautical miles distant in less than two hours".

In Ms. Bakewell's eyes this odd education "benefited him in exactly the areas where it also damaged him". It set Montaigne apart, she notes, and gave him an independent mind but instilled a certain detachment and skepticism that cut him off from more conventional ambitions.

The vehicle design is for a hydrogen-fuelled aircraft that would take off from a conventional runway, and accelerate to Mach 5.4 at altitude using the atmosphere before switching the engines to use the internal liquid oxygen (LOX) supply to take it into orbit.