Example sentences for: countercultural

How can you use “countercultural” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Simpson apparently meant to write an acerbic social portrait of America's post-postindustrial revolution, and of the former countercultural baby boomers who lead it.

  • Rather, he argues, Madison Avenue was sincere in its "cosmic optimism" about youth culture: Marketers didn't want to contain countercultural energies so much as to release them into the world at large.

  • Obituaries of the author of Naked Lunch highlight his importance as a countercultural role model, calling him "the non-conformist's non-conformist" (the Boston Globe ) who "inspired a who's who of pop culture" ( USA Today ). They dwell on the artists (Beats, punk rockers) who embraced Burroughs as a guru, and retell bizarre anecdotes from his life (he shot his wife accidentally, slept with little boys, and hawked his typewriter to buy heroin).

  • The images we see or hear described in the movie are vaguely countercultural (a Santa-with-an-erection cartoon), not sick ( Hustler 's real-life jokes about Betty Ford's mastectomy); they are soft-core (centerfold-style nudes), not hard-core (the pictorial of a woman gagged and bound on the top of a car).

  • Outside of weird fringe pictures such as Larry Cohen's God Told Me To (1977), Dogma is the first truly countercultural apocalypse fantasy.


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