Example sentences for: countercultural

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

  • 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.

  • Instinct recycles a lot of countercultural touchstones--the lovable psychotics out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), the fascist guards out of Cool Hand Luke (1967).

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • She made Tammy Wynette seem countercultural.


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