Sentence examples for smashing norms from inspiring English sources
"The key is, he is smashing norms and making his own, but that does not mean he is violating the law in any way," Robert Rizzi, a government compliance and ethics lawyer in Washington and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, told the Guardian.
It is hard not to see the 'trailblazing' of Miley Cyrus as derivative of David Bowie's smashing of gender norms.
For all that Miley Cyrus's cropped hair and crotch-clutching and "I don't relate to being boy or girl" have inspired articles about gender fluidity as the new "in" thing, it's hard not to see Cyrus's "trailblazing" as derivative of David Bowie – a true icon in so many ways, not least in his defiant smashing of gender norms.
One character laments, "Maybe tyranny, forced conversions, temple-smashing, iconoclasm, persecution and genocide were the norms and peaceful coexistence was an illusion... Maybe peace was his opium pipe-dream".
To start, Trump has smashed through an even more basic set of norms that apply to the Chief Executive, who is tasked with serving as a role model on — and initial interpreter of — what the law requires.
"He was smashing looking".
They replaced the norms with other norms.
