Example sentences for: countercultural

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

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

  • She made Tammy Wynette seem countercultural.

  • 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).

  • But Paul and Linda's countercultural roots are an embarrassment to the Right; and their traditional adherence to fidelity and bourgeois bliss embarrasses the Left.

  • What I see in, among other things, techno, is a countercultural impulse--an implicit desire for something different.


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