Sentence examples for was less conventional from inspiring English sources

The rest of the scene was less conventional.

In real life, the situation was less conventional still: Lili and Gerda lived as an out lesbian couple.

Enlisting the spirit of Dr King – a tactic familiar to president Obama, who used his sing-song pulpit voice to rouse the crowd ahead of the pope's address – was less conventional territory for the Vatican.

Another guest at the panel was less conventional: Baba Joe, a donkey-sized, automated alien created by visual effects professional Neil Scanlan, which lumbered back and forth across the stage and interacted with the human moviemakers with the help of a five-person crew of pilots (presumably all offstage).

Coburn, again, was less conventional: He was one of only three Republican senators to vote for an amendment proposed by two Democrats, Ohio's Sherrod Brown and Delaware's Ted Kaufman, that would have taken the "extreme" step of capping the size of America's largest banks.

Burgess was less conventional — a more reckless drunk, and incautiously homosexual — but in the days before he disappeared he had told a friend that he could never live abroad and was planning to settle down to "his great task, the addition of a final volume to Lady Gwendolen Cecil's biography of the Tory Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, which he thought the best biography in English".

Most theaters are less conventional.

Other sex scenes are less conventional.

There are less conventional fillings, some salt free, and miniature cocktail-size knishes.

But the books are less conventional mysteries than studies in Chinese-American culture.

"The books are less conventional mysteries than studies in Chinese-American culture," Chang told an interviewer for The Times.