Sentence examples for rejection of conventions from inspiring English sources

Like much art based on the rejection of conventions thoroughly mastered, the oil sketches have tremendous vitality, far more than the paintings they were meant to be studies for.

The rejection of convention has been a standard trope of art criticism since the 19th century.

His radical rejection of convention ensured he became the most famous cult psychiatrist in the country.

It is that rejection of convention that perhaps lies at the heart of Billy Liar's enduring success.

It was a grasping of freedom, a rejection of convention that she stood for and which people were all having to grapple with at the time.

In short, there's nobody to challenge their punkish interests — for that matter, their punkishness isn't even an attitude, it's a minor and bloodless style statement, a matter of distinctive but unexceptionable haircuts and garments alone, without piercings or tattoos, without inclinations to violence and without anarchic rejection of convention and order.

But the format of "The Colony" is an implicit rejection of "Survivor" conventions.

Zavattini's views on Neorealism emphasized a documentary style of film realism, the use of nonprofessional actors, a rejection of Hollywood conventions, real locations as opposed to studio sets, an avoidance of dramatic or intrusive editing, and contemporary, everyday subject matter about the common man.