Sentences with phrase «defying conventional»

But as Associated Press writer David N. Goodman reports, a Michigan hospital is defying the conventional wisdom, admitting mistakes and offering compensation well before patients file lawsuits.

John Giorno is an artistic innovator who has been defying conventional definitions of poet, performer, political activist, Tibetan Buddhist, and visual artist since he emerged upon the New York art scene during the late 1950s.

ABOUT JOHN GIORNO John Giorno (b. 1936, New York City, USA) is an artistic innovator who has been defying conventional definitions of poet, performer, political activist, Tibetan Buddhist, and visual artist since he emerged upon the New York art scene during the late 1950s.

Defying the conventional wisdom that only big names draw crowds, the Swiss (and female) artist Pipilotti Rist had the fourth-most popular solo show in the period.

San Francisco's No Starch Press has found success producing «sharable books for geeks,» eschewing DRM and defying conventional publishing wisdom.

But this release, a modestly budgeted indie (Paramount acquired it after it was shot) feels slightly different: Streep, at 67, is no longer an outlier defying all conventional wisdom about the box - office viability of an actress north of 50; she's part of a trend.

Nevertheless, this study «officially» supports what some cardiologists and others have come to claim over the past few years, defying conventional medicine's false culprit of cholesterol from saturated fat while pointing to arterial inflammation.

Their remains suggest a surprisingly sophisticated people defying the conventional timeline of Homo sapiens» migration out of Africa.

«Over and over, we're defying conventional wisdom,» he told the group touting, «Spitzer for Comptroller» signs.

Defying conventional political wisdom, progressive leaders say this is the one election cycle when the Democratic Party should head straight for the left lane — and stay there right through Election Day.

Defying conventional logic, his research showed that weak ties are actually more influential in parts of our lives than strong ties (e.g. getting a job).

A half century after he moved back to Omaha, he was still going against the grain and defying conventional wisdom.

Defying conventional wisdom, the researchers found that young companies that rely on one or two big clients were more successful than companies that didn't.

In November the five - year - old company confidentially filed to go public, according to reports, defying conventional wisdom among highly valued startups.

Like in 1989, when, two months after her husband's inauguration, she visited a residential home for babies infected with AIDS and publicly kissed a child and hugged an adult diagnosed with HIV, defying the conventional wisdom at the time that the disease was contagious.

Attended by seasoned founders, executives, investors, and philanthropists who are seeking to leave their mark on the world, The Human Gathering continues to defy conventional conference norms and carefully curate a community of exceptional people.

His commitment to tech stocks in the 1990s and early 2000s defied conventional wisdom, she said.

Gideon defied conventional wisdom in organizing his plan.

Well, it seems to have been «not so muc... a supernatural external miracle but... the dawning internal realization that this life of Jesus reflected a new image of God, an image that defied the conventional wisdom, an image that called into question the exalted king as the primary analogy by which God could be understood.»

«In much of his conduct so far, [Trump] has defied conventional wisdom, and he may do so once again with this speech.»

And finally, the preparation of your masterpiece must defy all conventional wisdom with regards to fat content, added sugar, and calories.

This season has defied conventional wisdom and accepted tenets in EPL such as spending a lot of money on quality players, keeping the established order intact etc..

If Mark Radloff, the pilot of the Michigan basketball team plane that ended up off the runway in an accident in 2017, didn't break aviation rules and defy conventional wisdom,...

He has already defied conventional political wisdom.

Now that has changed: Forward thinkers see it as an important energizer for the tiniest of machines, devices on the nano scale, and a few labs are working on ways to use the force to defy the conventional limitations of mechanical design.

Studies that demonstrate embodied cognition seem to defy conventional wisdom, which paints thought as a set of computer - like algorithms that unfold entirely within the skull.

Here's one area where it's okay for non-native speakers to defy the conventional wisdom.

With this knowledge, Gasser observes, humans may be able to create other varieties of seedless fruits, such as cherimoyas and tomatoes, that have so far defied conventional breeding techniques.

The study findings defy the conventional belief that the two treatment interventions offer equal survival, and show the need to revisit some standards of breast cancer practice in the modern era.

The physics underlying these materials — which appear to defy the conventional laws of physics — has fascinated scientists for decades.

In the microscopic life that thrives around coral reefs, San Diego State University researchers have discovered an interplay between viruses and microbes that defies conventional wisdom.

But OTS44 defies conventional theory.

These misaligned features seem to defy conventional thinking about Titan's windy atmosphere, which should quickly smear out such lopsided concentrations.

This is not the first time astronomers have spotted objects that defy conventional understanding.

Defy conventional «wisdom» and improve mental and physical health (for free) through the practice of intermittent fasting.

It was written in by an M.D. in 1926 and the principles in this book that defy conventional medical wisdom still hold true today, 87 years later.

In an OFM world most everything defies the conventional science, however, if you look closer this approach makes a lot of sense.

Seeming to defy all conventional logic and wisdom, the ketogenic diet is high in saturated fat, contains basically zero fruit, and recommends bacon.

Leadership: The «cutting - edge» nutrition and sports physiology research is undergoing a seismic shift and VESPA is leading the way with race winning / record setting results which defy conventional sports nutrition / physiology on fat - based performance.

Hormonal imbalances are not diseases and defy conventional diagnoses — even if they ruin women's lives.

That defies conventional standards.

Every now and then a movie comes along that's so beyond - the - pale sloppy, so disastrous in both conceit and execution, that it simply defies conventional analysis.

Recent films like the Scarlett Johansson action film Lucy, which earned $ 463 million worldwide, have defied the conventional wisdom that genre films should be an XY affair.

This original and bizarre film by written by Charlie Kaufman (his first screenplay) and first time director Spike Jonze (featured in Three Kings and director of numerous music videos) defies any conventional description.

The writer - director's career over the last dozen years has been like an exercise in entropy: from the critical and commercial success of The Sixth Sense; to the underrated Unbreakable; to the bold but ill - conceived Signs; to the escalating idiocies of The Village; to the risible Lady in the Water (a failure notable enough to occasion an entire book); to The Happening, a picture so terrible that it defied conventional criticism.

The movie, which defies conventional thinking about war - movie endings, largely consists of conversation, not conflict (at least not in a military sense), as Juba alternately taunts, attempts to school and acts as a confessor to Isaac, who, as one would expect of these things, tries to use his head to outwit his enemy and survive.

They can be placed virtually anywhere on the map and provide an interesting twist on a shooter that already defies conventional mechanics.

The Oscar potency for «Get Out» defied the conventional wisdom that films released early in the year («Get Out» came out last February) often struggle to get awards love, as do horror films.

The results of a McKinsey & Company survey defy conventional wisdom about what leads to success for a sales team in the K - 12 market.

In 2009, my colleague, the unrivaled Post education reporter Jay Mathews, wrote a column suggesting that Weingarten should be named D.C. schools superintendent after Michelle Rhee because «she is a practical and imaginative leader who likes to defy conventional wisdom.»