Sentence examples for rejection of standard from inspiring English sources

Their films looked more radical in 1960 than they do today, but, even so, Godard's Breathless, his widely hailed rejection of standard cinematic storytelling, came like a thunderclap announcing a storm to sweep away conventional ways of looking at movies.

And then there's his rejection of standard plot: "I think about how to tell a narrative by using not people speaking so much, but how the wind tells a narrative, or how trees tell a narrative".

Harry D. Tunnell IV, who for a while was allowed to remain in command of a Stryker brigade in southern Afghanistan despite his ostentatious rejection of standard counterinsurgency doctrine, which emphasizes winning the trust of the population, in favor of a more brutal, and less effective, search-and-destroy "antiguerrilla" approach.

Everything we'd read about this mighty negation, this rejection of standard rock, is there in these songs.

But those who study this subculture (which seems to be a rejection of standard Japanese masculinity) find no real evidence of sexual disinterest some are even seen as quite suave.

As we will see in the following section, this resistance amounts in some cases to the rejection of the standard conception of action, in some cases it amounts to the rejection of the standard theory of action, and in some it amounts to the more modest claim that there are different kinds of agency.

But, in fact, it again involves a rejection of the standard feminine essence narrative; that is, it rejects the idea that some people are born "true transsexuals," profoundly different from all other people in having the true gender identity of one sex in the body of the other.

Both Mary Lincoln and his Springfield law partner William Herndon (also his first biographer) were unequivocal about his rejection of any standard churchgoing faith, and the various posthumous claims that he "converted" to some form of Christianity have been mostly exploded.

In fact, Burley seems to believe that Duns Scotus's strategy of drawing formal distinctions does not work, since it implies a a rejection of the standard definition of identity according to which two things are identical if and only if whatever is predicated of one is also predicated of the other (EP, ch. de oppositione, fol. 44rb; TdU, p. 22).

This is significant in that it reflects his rejection of the standard view that judgments are formed by somehow conjoining ideas: for example, the Port-Royal Logic's Aristotelian claim that they are 'necessarily composed of three elements — the subject-idea, the attribute, and the joining of these two ideas'.

Folk musicians use the dialect of their own regional tradition; this rejection of the standard Italian language in folk song is nearly universal.