Sentence examples for unconventional upbringing from inspiring English sources

By SY standards, Suede had an unconventional upbringing.

Read.'" Tolle credits his unconventional upbringing with broadening his mind.

We had such an unconventional upbringing – it didn't involve any clothes like Barbour".

Of her own unconventional upbringing, she says: "As a child, you just know what you know.

Ware was born in Edinburgh, to Harry and Armyne (nee Davidson), artists who gave him a colourful and unconventional upbringing.

This biography by Tracy Kidder traces Dr Farmer from his unconventional upbringing and unusual education, shuttling between the shacks of central Haiti and the halls of Harvard Medical School, to his later work around the world.

Going to school amplified the discord of my unconventional family upbringing.

He is also deeply critical (as she is) of Otto - but she is convinced the deeply unconventional commune upbringing did the children little harm.

Born in San Francisco in 1934, Yvonne Rainer had an unconventional and contradictory upbringing.

She was a fashionable and modern young woman, unconventional in her upbringing and opinions, with rather more interest in clothes than in cooking.

"We were raised to cherish the family above all, and because Ilich was the eldest he was always my guide, a figure to admire … He was the one who enrolled me in school or told me off, not for smoking, but for doing so without knowing how to," said Vladimir, who recalls an unconventional and sheltered upbringing.