Example sentences for: countercultural

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

  • 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).

  • She made Tammy Wynette seem countercultural.

  • 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.

  • Having spent decades trying to maintain their pose as countercultural revolutionaries, the aristrockracy is finally coming out of the closet.

  • , awestruck countercultural jungle movies such as The Emerald Forest (1985) and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).


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