Sentence examples for counter-cultural from high-quality English sources.

• The style of tripping is counter-cultural, its essence slow and purposeful.

• Dynamic restructuring—in the General Electric or Asea Brown Boveri sense—remains “counter-cultural”.

• It’s loosely inspired by real-life folkster Dave Van Ronk and paints a melancholy picture of counter-cultural dysfunction.

• Mr Skelton told The Independent: “Voting Conservative has become counter cultural in Scotland, in some northern cities and amongst ethnic minority voters.

• They emphasise being counter-cultural and point out that many churches which are growing run against the liberal flow.

• The adult colouring books of the 1960s owed their popularity to their counter-cultural captions rather than anyone’s artistic aspirations.

• A Vegas wedding was supposed to be a counter-cultural choice, but turns out to have been tied to those traditional habits it was supposed to subvert.

• The L.B.P.’s biggest chapters were in Bologna and Rome, and they collaborated mostly on counter-cultural pranks against the mainstream-media establishment.

Use counter-cultural in a sentence.

• Nurse Ratched became a counter-cultural anti-hero as a result of the iffy mental healthcare strategies showcased in Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

• Equinox has been slow to expand into Brooklyn, perhaps because its brand clashes with much of Brooklyn's counter-cultural, or at least closer-to-working-class, sensibility.

• There was a sense that they’d been idealistic and perhaps even counter-cultural in their youths, in the Seventies, but then had hung up their ideals in pursuit of domestic bliss and money.

• However hard it tries to morph into a counter-cultural gadfly, Catholicism will continue to be tainted by its image as an agency that enjoyed too much wealth and power for too long and abused both.

• It is the sort of counter-cultural vernacular usually heard on the concrete estates of the outer-city banlieues, where French youngsters of Arab and African descent have long devised an alternative lexicon.

• But in our quick-fix, sugar-rush world of market-driven economics, short-term election cycles and quarterly performance reviews, the idea of taking the long view and planning centuries - even millennia head - can seem deeply counter-cultural.

• The Church's standing has been badly damaged by clerical sex abuse; parishes are facing an unprecedented shortage of priests and - in a country where The God Delusion was a best-seller - to be a practising Roman Catholic is to be counter-cultural.

• As the name implies, this laid-back locale is more café than restaurant, but it wins a place on the list as a Schanzenviertel staple since the early ’80s, when the now heavily gentrified neighbourhood still retained true counter-cultural credentials.

counter-cultural sentence examples

• With 48 hours in town, you’ve plenty of time to enjoy the city’s different facets, from the Hanseatic swagger of the Altstadt to the counter-cultural edge of the Sternschanze district, from cheap shots and karaoke joints off the Reeperbahn to Caspar David Friedrich at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

• It explores the role of 'perpetrator photography', official and private, in creating and perpetuating Anti-Semitic and other racist biases, and introduces the counter-cultural photography of Jewish people, who used the camera to record and defend deeply entangled German and Jewish identities.  

• Often, they engage in eating and exercise patterns that feel profoundly “counter-cultural” – eating a piece of cake for therapeutic reasons may sound amazing to someone without an eating disorder, but can be incredibly difficult for someone in recovery, particularly when they are not visibly ill.

• After wowing street art lovers in New York, Miami and Tokyo, iconic graffiti artist Dave Persue comes to Shanghai for an exhibition of his famous ‘Wet Paint’ series, together with his doodles of Bunny Kitty (the cat in a rabbit costume) that have since become a symbol of New York counter-cultural street art.