Sentences with phrase «railed against expectations»

In a country with an established footballing hierarchy, Bernardini railed against expectations not once but twice, producing two shocking Scudetto victories in the process.

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With his dash of snark and his off - kilter good looks and his appealingly huggable vulnerability, his Bartleby Gaines is an anti-everyman hero, a literal freedom fighter railing against the chains of societal expectations that can drive even the best of us to succumb to one - note conventionality.
THE YEARNING FOR aesthetic purity had been intensifying on the bohemian fringes of Paris ever since the mid-1830s, when Théophile Gautier railed, in a preface to one of his novels, against the expectation that artists and writers promote the prevailing morality.
In 1997, the veteran black artist Betye Saar led a letter - writing campaign against Ms. Walker's work, railing against negative stereotypes of blacks as both victims and aggressors that she said catered to the expectations of whites.
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