Sentence examples for unconventional character from inspiring English sources

The picture of a friendly, if rather unconventional character, is confirmed by others who knew him.

She knew her father was a wildly unconventional character but was unaware how fragile and unstable he was.

The success of Rudy's drove them to think bigger, towards the idea of creating a hotel with the same unconventional character that had inspired their barber shop chain.

She's their ideal underdog, someone to herald specifically for having beaten the system with an uncompromising style and an unconventional character.

This may be his most American quality: not his scientific sensibility or pioneering choice of subjects or any other cliché of nationalism, but the combination of his dogged, plain-spoken, almost puritanical realism with a simmering, unconventional character.

His most American quality, in the end, may not be his scientific sensibility or pioneering choice of subjects or any other cliché of nationalism, but this combination of dogged, plain-spoken, almost puritanical realism with a simmering, unconventional character.

PARIS — A host of unconventional characters turning away from home across Europe rushed to early 20th-century Paris, where they became part of a stunning avant-garde artistic movement.

Whether we're seeking wisdom from Kobayashi or Mother Teresa or the Shackleton Expedition, business-oriented humans seem to react strongly to lessons from unconventional characters and incongruous contexts.

Lindgren, creator of such memorable characters as Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump; 1945), was noted for employing complex ideas and unconventional characters in a genre that historically had been constrained by conceptions of propriety and the idea that children possess only a limited understanding of the world.

But he represents R.A. Dickey — the Mets' Cy Young Award-winning knuckleballer, one of baseball's more unconventional characters and now one of the more intriguing trade candidates — and therefore he was stopped repeatedly on Tuesday as he made his way across the facility.

Though Ms. Riva has long been admired for her inimitable diction, allure and unassuming intelligence in portraying often dark and unconventional characters in New Wave classics like "Hiroshima Mon Amour," she said, "I've never wanted to be a star, never".