Example sentences for: unorthodox

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

  • Discuss modern, unorthodox interpretations of Islam.

  • Kaufman's professional life took an unorthodox turn when he started wrestling women in arenas and on television--this, too, before wrestling took off.

  • Lucie Berard's father reported that the portrait of his daughter, with its unorthodox coloring and swirling purple background, "simply frightens people away."

  • A few defend Morris: His unorthodox technique captures Reagan's contradictions and makes for "a very strange, very interesting, very exasperating book, full to bursting of both lies and honesty" that calls to mind some of fiction's most masterful unreliable narrators, such as "the madness of Nabokov's Charles Kinbote" (Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker ). Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes a solidly positive review: "I can think of few conventional political biographies that bring their subjects' pasts so richly alive" (the New York Times ). But the Times ' other reviewer voices the conventional wisdom, calling it "a bizarre, irresponsible and monstrously self-absorbed book" (Michiko Kakutani).

  • Director Steven Soderbergh ( sex, lies and videotape ) wins praise for preserving the humor, unorthodox narrative, and genre-bending of Elmore Leonard's noir-thriller-romance novel.


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