Sentences with phrase «other nonconformist»

Like other nonconformist, iconoclastic actors such as Sean Penn and Joaquin Phoenix, Bale eschews playing the Hollywood celebrity game and doesn't care about how he is perceived publicly, wanting his work to speak for itself.

The place is filled with colorful artists and other nonconformist types.

Some hail from long - ago eras — protagonists of medieval mythology like the knight, the harlequin, the jester — while others are from the more recent past — beatniks, hippies, and other nonconformists.

Not exact matches

Clergy and laity, both of the Church of England and of the Nonconformists, were active in adjusting disputes between laborers and employers and in seeking to improve housing and other labor conditions.

The other great nonconformist in 20th - century physics was Richard Feynman, who turned down an appointment to the Institute for Advanced Study in favor of a position at Caltech.

If some people had special tickets that allowed them to go backstage or entitled them to some other privilege, it would greatly slow the GPU's capabilities as the processor decided what to do with the nonconformists.

Harvard researchers found that a bit of uniqueness (e.g., a bearded professor in a T - shirt when compared to a clean - shaven one in a suit) can cause others to perceive you as having higher status — most likely because they reach the conclusion that you must have more status to be able to be a nonconformist.

Why do some brave and nonconformist people become criminals, while others become heroes?

Also, there's a long (but interesting) section which includes tales of other intrepid nonconformist isolationists.

Christopher Monckton — a British aristocrat and former adviser to Margaret Thatcher who has become a self - described «nonconformist» dissector of climate research — told me on Friday that he'd cautioned other conference presenters on this point.