Sentence examples for she flouts from inspiring English sources

She flouts societal codes, and Ms. Poplavskaya's portrayal restores the character's danger.

During her climatic performance, she flouts taboos by letting her head scarf slip and doing a brief little dance.

She flouts too many conventions and, more tellingly, has done so for too long to enable any swift or easy conclusions.

In the movie's most disturbing scene, she flouts the regulations at an indoor recreation center and jumps into the young people's swimming pool to splash around with her children.

Although she has dug up information about things like the history of the colon, Truss is so uninterested in the actual rules of punctuation that she even names the ones she flouts — for example, the rule that semicolons cannot be used to set off dependent clauses.

/ "She flouted the rules".

Nicknamed "Fiercely," she flouted upper-crust norms: not marrying until an overripe 28, adopting a child openly and bringing kindergarten, then a radical concept, to the United States.

When she wrote a profile of Albert Luthuli, the president of the African National Congress, in the late 50s, she flouted apartheid laws by having him to stay there.

It was in Jaén, Spain, in 1949, and as the fight ended, she flouted the Spanish law that prohibited women from fighting a bull on foot.

The only celebrity who defies easy packaging is Elizabeth Taylor, shown laughing as she flips off an imagined paparazzo — just as she flouted Hollywood protocol in her lifetime, supporting fellow actors with AIDS, or an embattled Michael Jackson, who is shown here in a soft-focus image that assuages the jolting peculiarity of his surgically transformed face.

That November, with the Israelis on the brink of sending troops into Gaza, she flouted Israeli restrictions and, carrying a Dutch passport from a long-over marriage, entered Gaza by sea, via Cyprus, on a "Free Gaza" boat, along with some British Members of Parliament.