Sentence examples for unconventional figure from inspiring English sources

His friendship with Caton, an unconventional figure whom he credited as his mentor and guru, was significant.

But this magnificent biography of Isabella Beeton, who died at the age of twenty-eight, reveals a more unconventional figure.

The manager is a mercurial, unconventional figure who has been ignominiously dismissed from his previous job but inspires an incredible team spirit that carries a group of under-rated players on an incredible journey that everyone expects to be derailed at almost every step.

In the mostly tweedy, genteel world of book publishing in the 1960s and '70s, Barney Rosset, who died on Tuesday at 89, was a bit of an outlaw: a raffish, unconventional figure who loved breaking the rules and challenging the conventions.

They portray Pyrrho as a strikingly unconventional figure, unaffected not just by emotion and belief, but also by perception to the extent that friends had to pull him off the street when a wagon approached (DL 9.62).

The problem, as he was only too happy to explain, was that "much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate and what I'm trying to do".What that meant in practice was shilling for money over the internet and turning in some incandescently angry debate performances.

Since most militias have traditionally positioned themselves as anti-government, and President Trump has come in as an unconventional outsider figure, impassioned members now find themselves with a new "Trump dilemma," as Segal put it.

An unconventional design.

Witch trials enabled persecution of these more free-minded or unconventional female figures in society, such as those who were older and unmarried.

In some ways, of course, Leonardo is an unconventional Hollywood action figure (for one thing, he was gay artist obsessed with preserving Italy's waterways).

In the UK, 15 stores would close, providing a chaotic final chapter in the story of a bombastic figure whose unconventional management style, forward-thinking business model and self-confessed sex obsession have become the stuff of fashion-industry legend.