Longing to Be a Boy Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born into a close family whose comfortable social status and unconventional opinions fostered self-confidence and independence.
And yet for all Lawrence's outsider status and unconventional views, Britain's military machine in the Middle East contained enough sound men for him to thrive – and to emerge from the war one of the most admired men in Britain.
My approach to philanthropy might be a bit unconventional compared with the status quo.
An accomplished unconventional leader and proven status quo buster who has successfully led several multi-billion dollar transformation efforts, General Michel has dealt with business transformation at a scale that most of us will never see in our lives.
Such a mindset allows challenges of the status quo and unconventional thinking that are intricately linked with scientific and entrepreneurial progress.
Now that "Big Love" is over, after five years of playing the manipulative middle wife of a polygamist, she continues to embrace her outsider status by choosing unconventional roles.
But the court said the problem was that Mr. McConnell was asking for "the right to pursue an activist role in implementing his unconventional ideas concerning the societal status to be accorded homosexuals and, thereby, to foist tacit approval of this socially repugnant concept upon his employer, who is, in this instance, an institution of higher learning".
The technical debate reached a peak in 2002, just as the intelligence community was preparing a comprehensive National Intelligence Estimate, an interagency assessment of the status of Iraq's unconventional weapons.
Vanna White reached TV icon status in one of the most unconventional ways.
His unconventional novels, still popular after many decades, achieved cult status in the '60s and '70s.
Compared to patients who chose evidence-based cancer treatments, those who used unconventional methods tended to have high social and economic status, be from northwestern U.S. states, have advanced cancers and be in otherwise good health.
