Sentence examples for refusing to conform from inspiring English sources

Britain's feral youths are brutishly and selfishly refusing to conform to stereotype.

I celebrated Malcolm McLaren's life by refusing to conform to instructions, yeah?

"Other times I'd just yell: 'Fuck you.'" She developed into a fearless performer – confrontational, physical, refusing to conform to expectations of how a woman should act on stage.

Women are routinely beaten, stoned or killed for refusing to conform to Taliban rules -- rules as absurd as not allowing women to show their ankles.

Neither Roberts nor Brontë follow this masculine advice and their writing is defiantly excessive, just as Vinny remains a flamboyant eccentric, refusing to conform like her sister, Catherine.

Thara marries Gehan, whom Latha loves, while Latha continues as a domestic servant, emotionally and socially disenfranchised, yet refusing to conform.

It refused to conform to clothing stereotypes.

Both Pakistan and his daughter confound him; they refuse to conform to his notions of reasonableness.

It was a political statement – he refused to conform to social standards of personal appearance.

Any woman who refused to conform would risk lashing and stoning.

All were writing sophisticated fiction that refused to conform to national — or nationalist — modes.