Sentence examples for rejection of authority from inspiring English sources

This deliberate rejection of authority is itself anti-charismatic and transgressive.

For example, hip-hop has a fundamental rejection of authority, which may explain why it also attracts a similar audience.

In his view, the declining appeal of a life in ministry is more a result of the rejection of authority than of the lure of more lucrative jobs.

What made SNCC a threat to the establishment, he wrote, was "its rejection of authority; its fearlessness in the face of overwhelming power; its indifference to respectability".

Another protest, in nine cities across the country, is planned for tomorrow .The rejection of authority, tinted by anarchism, is reminiscent of 1968 in Western Europe," says Martin Bútora, a former dissident and head of the Institute for Public Affairs, a Bratislava-based think-tank.

She is a heroine who has been interpreted by critics in myriad ways: for Hegel, she represents the ethical value of the family against the state; for George Eliot, the strength of intellect against society; for Anouilh, during the French resistance, the rejection of authority.

The rejection of any authority.

The rejection of political authority has a rich pedigree.

In their rejection of the authority of the Vedas, the doctrine of transmigration of souls, child marriage, and ill treatment of widows, they anticipated much of the viewpoint of the social reform movements of the 19th century.

For every devotee of antiquity, there is a skeptic asking: what do the Greeks matter to a country founded on the rejection of European authority and the hope of a state the likes of which the world had never seen?

He gravely underestimated the depth and the dangers of his unpopularity in Germany, and the Reformation found the papacy psychologically unprepared for a radical and permanent rejection of its authority.