How To Use Unorthodox In A Sentence

He is a solid on the ball defender, which makes up for his unorthodox offensive game.
One reason may lie in its unorthodox approach. Times, Sunday Times
By doing so, he patches up an unorthodox story with a heart-warming resolution.
It was to a large extent a self-education with the characteristic vices and virtues; when he came to power in 1949 he was still the brilliant autodidact, mixing shrewd unorthodox insights with astonishing ignorance.
But porn plenaries make for unorthodox encounters. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER

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This unorthodox method an an bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
A more accessible story, then, is one where these structural features are clearly defined -- whether that means unorthodox but simple or deeply conventionalised as in the extreme case of symbolic formulation. The Aesthetics of Fat
From early times the papacy had allied with the imperial power to condemn the unorthodox.
Summit Series, he says, has found the sweet spot of unorthodoxy and appeal, which helps get participants out of their normal shell. Gregory Ferenstein: A Conference That Entertains, Inspires and Has Impact: Summit Series
The spy agency has received widespread publicity on social media for its unorthodox recruitment drive. Times, Sunday Times
She developed an unorthodox swing, but her putting ability and powerful striking of the ball made her a fearsome opponent.
Some, notably the antinomians, were theologically unorthodox; their obsession with personal conversion led them to question whether the visible saints governing the colony were truly saintly.
The unexpected grabs attention and the unorthodox is the antidote to a world of mediocrity. Why The White House is losing the health debate.
Ron Kershaw was known as a maverick, a hard-partying, renegade newsman who networks put up with despite his unorthodoxy simply because he turned third place stations into first place stations in record speed. Live and Let Love
Two stand out; in them, he developed “contradictoriness” into a highly unorthodox approach to leadership. The Velvet Reformation
Odds are your suitcases will greet you when you deplane, but those odds lengthen when applied to more unorthodox baggage, which surely will come under careful inspection.
Any chef will tell you that we lead the most unorthodox and unhealthy lifestyles - we pick at food all day and have no time to exercise. Times, Sunday Times
But he was unorthodox, and as soon as the grave closed over him, he was grossly calumniated.
Dr Rydell's unorthodox methods involve screaming a lot, moving in with his patient - and even sharing his bed.
Themes can vary from the classic favorites like the beach, stars and sky and green living to something unorthodox like sports themes and even movie sets. How to Find the Right Canvas Wall Art for Your Room
Dalrymple says the Bauls' unorthodoxy has historically pushed their role beyond that of just minstrels. India's Wandering Minstrels Blend Spirituality, Irreverence
It is the unorthodoxy that people remember, though. Times, Sunday Times
Despite what the funding nabobs think, the works that define our film culture to the world outside are the ones that are the most unorthodox.
The former teacher has had an unusual career and he is well-known for his unorthodox, easy-going style.
It may be her candour and unorthodox behaviour that prompted her superiors to put pressure on her to leave Egypt. Times, Sunday Times
As an MP, he regularly featured in the headlines for his outspoken views and at times unorthodox behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
One of the most useful roles for research is to make people review their beliefs and legitimise unorthodox views.
Not all of German football was ready for his unorthodox approach. Times, Sunday Times
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Many doctors don't approve of unorthodox medicine.
The canon of his prose writings long included De Doctrina Christiana, an unorthodox theological treatise first printed in 1825.
Virginia's unorthodox approach of being grandmother and midwife was called into question by some of her colleagues. The Sun
One of Mr. Echenoz's most unorthodox and playful novels, "Piano" 2004, extends this puckish futilitarianism to the realm of the afterlife. A Window Onto Comic Tedium
The places chosen for these unorthodox interments were often sites of ancient churches or graveyards, or of ruined abbeys etc.
But the unorthodox screenplay and prosaic dialogues struggle to convey something more than what other such films generally attempt to.
They are particularly hostile toward minorities or those with unorthodox life-styles.
In The Substitute, a highly unorthodox substitute teacher disrupts and inspires a classful of teenagers and, in turn, learns an important lesson from them. David Wallechinsky: Academy Awards -- Short Films
He gained an early reputation for faith healing and clairvoyance and won fame throughout Mexico for his playful and unorthodox cures for a range of maladies including cancer and lameness.
The River Café Classic Cookbook admits using butter in a vongole is unorthodox – but harnessing its emulsifying properties to thicken the sauce is a tip Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray say they picked up from a seaside restaurant just outside Rome, and it's a good one. How to cook perfect spaghetti alle vongole
By doing so, he patches up an unorthodox story with a heart-warming resolution.
If you have become disenchanted with the run of the mill, go into something more artistic or unorthodox.
Her approach to the métier was unorthodox - she and two female associates ran a brothel co-operative in an apartment on St-Urbain.
A single nun, working in an unorthodox manner in the slums, made some of the local clergy distinctly uncomfortable.
Prior to this risky and unorthodox move, companies would second-source products by licensing their technology to competitors the way it was always done. WN.com - Articles related to Philips, Videocon in marketing pact
Miss Fritton is headmistress of St Trinian's, where her unorthodox doctrine and free expression has brought her a collection of very uninhibited pupils.
I had to fudge my way into contests by stuffing my hair under my hat and changing the unorthodox spelling of my name.
Her unorthodox views tend to attract controversy.
If any Lwa / Orisha were to be encouraging of unorthodox veneration, it might certainly well be Legba - the traveller, the boundary-walker, the strife-sower and line-crosser.
Suitably inwardly calmed, he returned with the role of McCabe, a maverick wildlife liaison officer who wasn't afraid to use unorthodox methods to get results when it came to bad people taunting squirrels or baiting frogspawn.
MMA fans know that Machida's style is unorthodox--his striking platform is a kind of Shotokan karate, which is generally the province of eight-year-old "black belts" who punch at the air two hours a week. Nick Mamatas' Journal
What's your best advice to dad & mompreneurs who have a passion outside a 'regular' career, but are afraid to follow an unorthodox path?
But the current impasse arose because of the unorthodox way in which the bankers covered their own backs.
My upbringing was pretty unorthodox. Times, Sunday Times
He's clever inside, shoots really well for his size, and his game is unorthodox enough to throw off the defense.
Surprisingly, he has embraced his son's unorthodox methods. Times, Sunday Times
Blaise Pascal's father had unorthodox educational views and decided to teach his son himself.
Britten N. Lay views of drugs and medicines: orthodox and unorthodox accounts.
Underground churches and unorthodox sects are gaining in popularity as Communist ideology loses its appeal.
You have a rather unorthodox style of law enforcement, if I can put it that way, Sheriff.
And if his shot had an unorthodox release—generating as much sidespin as backspin—it also had uncanny range. Pistol
He shunned IMF aid to protect what he called "unorthodox" measures from oversight. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
Four large-scale paintings, representing his third solo exhibition there (over an eight-year period), consumed the wall space of a smallish room with an unorthodox elucidation of his diluvian subject.
This is an unorthodox point of view. Times, Sunday Times
His detention turns out to be much more unorthodox than writing a hundred lines.
Hence, magic became part of a growing "underworld" of unorthodox practices, such as necromancy, witchcraft, and heresy -- all forms of deviance from a norm now asserting itself in greater clarity than ever before. What Is Magic?
Many doctors don't approve of unorthodox medicine.
He was an unorthodox individualist.
Certainly his upbringing was unorthodox. Times, Sunday Times
I did say they were unorthodox views. Times, Sunday Times
The therapist, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur used unorthodox, but not unethical, treatment for ten years, such as, psychoanalysis, hypnosis and Sodium Pentothal which resulted in the complete integration of the 16 personalities. Patrick Suraci: Sybil in Her Own Words
Many admire French ambient popsters Air for their ability to twist standard pop motifs and ambient soundscapes into unorthodox but alluring compositions.
The group creates a sort of subversive performance art, with a hodgepodge of unorthodox and sometimes silly scientific projects commissioned to expose the inadequacies and evils of modern biotech research.
It is perhaps not surprising that even their views on hoummos are unorthodox. Times, Sunday Times
Mark Block, who is smoking a cigarette in the now-viral Cain video, is described as "unorthodox" in the USATODAY.com News
As a result of this unorthodox approach, I was unable to take any statement contained within the factum at its face value, but was required to go back to source to verify each assertion.
They have often captured the headlines in the church and secular press because of their radical and unorthodox approach to worship. Working with Teenagers
The director favoured unorthodox methods of working, such as scribbling new dialogue on scraps of paper and handing them to the actors just before a take. Films of Michael Caine #70: The Debtors
This is the finest moment of Dead Poets Society, the story of a thoroughly unorthodox teacher at a thoroughly orthodox boys' prep school.
Others have taken a more unorthodox approach. Times, Sunday Times
A&P, the financially trouble supermarket chain, has stepped in a public relations cowflop over the unorthodox role of their veggies in a YouTube flick. A&P On The Road to YouTube Folly
The pleasure starts with two magnificent performances: Colin Firth as King George VI, afflicted by a terrible stutter, and Geoffrey Rush as an unorthodox Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue.
Tolerance for unorthodox political expression was simply not an ideological possibility.
Underground churches and unorthodox sects are gaining in popularity as Communist ideology loses its appeal.
She spent an unorthodox girlhood travelling with her father throughout Europe.
an unorthodox lifestyle
His method, unorthodox as it was, required maximum concentration and effort. Times, Sunday Times
It also discusses questions of genre and reception, rejecting such descriptions as 'tragicomedy' or 'romantic tragedy', and showing how later artists have responded to Euripides 'unorthodox heroine and her phantom double. Fabula : à la une
The charity says the journalists appear to have obtained confidential documents in an unorthodox manner.
At our first budget meeting, Richard was visibly surprised by what he would later describe, diplomatically, as the "unorthodoxy" of our arrangement with our builders. Danielle Crittenden: The Reno: I Like How He Wields a Sledgehammer
You can't take your eyes off him for the duration, such is the sense of mystery and unorthodoxy. Elliot Worsell: America's New Fighting Hero: Bones Jones
Expect culinary unorthodoxy, including flying-fish roe in mushroom spaghetti. Times, Sunday Times
So the same Opposition that's assailing the Government for not dealing with crime would go ballistic if they found out that the Minister and his men were using unorthodox methods to rid us of the devils in the society.
In many cultures, it is still seen as unusual or unorthodox for women to enjoy the act of sex.
TEPCO had adopted an unorthodox method of trying to cool Unit 1's reactor by trying to fill the drywell with water leaking from the core, but the possibility that chunks of melted fuel had fallen and damaged part the containment vessel raised questions about how successful this method would be. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
If declarer believed that Sementa had chosen the unorthodox lead of a low card from a doubleton, he could now have made the contract easily because he had a tenace in diamonds – the eight would force West to cover with the nine, and declarer's six would beat West's three. Two unorthodox leads
He also agreed the false invoice raised to cover the donation was unorthodox.
Quite independently of his Historical Matrix Model, which includes other conceptual components besides the ones I have highlighted here, Shermer is persuasive in showing how Wallace's personality and the peculiar mix of his "borderland" scientific interests (particularly mesmerism and phrenology) combined to make him vulnerable to a host of other unorthodox viewpoints, such as his ardent campaign against vaccination and his strong commitment to socialist causes. Darwin and His Doppelgänger
She has an unorthodox technique, but is an excellent player.
The term brings to mind satanic rituals, but in fact merely is defined by Webster's Dictionary as "a quasi-religious group, often living in a colony, with a charismatic leader who indoctrinates members with unorthodox or extremist views, practices or beliefs. The Seattle Times
He became 'the conduit for writers of all kinds of unorthodoxy'. Times, Sunday Times
As second jobs for comics go, it's unorthodox, but extremely fulfilling.
Educated privately at her homes at Parkwern and Hendrefoilan she inherited a long family tradition of unorthodox and innovative ideas.
They also encouraged their talented daughter in the studies that would take her to St Hilda's in Oxford and along an extraordinarily circuitous and unorthodox route from Latin and Greek through physiology to neurochemistry.
All of this expresses very well a necessary order and a determinate process, but one into which freedom, unorthodoxy and the sphere of the gratuitous and spontaneous cannot penetrate.
Such unorthodox tactics incur the anger of Billy's traditionalist colleagues, most notably Philip Seymour Hoffman's head coach – a performance of mostly unleavened grumpiness, this, just as Robin Wright as Billy's estranged wife is simply supportive, and Kerris Dorsey as his 12-year-old daughter purely precocious. Moneyball – review
Methods are put forward which are used for unorthodoxy placement gyro fault detection and isolation when the three gyros have trouble by the attitude signal.
We soon saw that he had settled for unorthodoxy — a policy that was entirely justified by the conditions. Times, Sunday Times
They will be in all sorts of places, orthodox and unorthodox, and there will be lots to choose from.
The common characteristic of the matadors in this group is that they interpret bullfighting in an unorthodox manner.
Accompanying James' unorthodox choreography is a stream of video images and an audio mix that includes a sitcom laugh track, a bingo caller and barnyard animals.
The common characteristic of the matadors in this group is that they interpret bullfighting in an unorthodox manner.
More damagingly still, what begins as an unorthodox and surprisingly successful approach calcifies into a stubborn orthodoxy that brooks no dissent, even as times and circumstances change. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Happily we had an easy course down a snow gradient, which we glissaded in very unorthodox style. Mr. Standfast
His literally unorthodox views made him a legend in his own time. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
It was a little unorthodox that they did it that way, cutting out the middleman.
There is an unorthodoxy to this skinny Northern Irishman, a feeling of a spirit unbound, and how Tony Mowbray must wish the player was accomplished enough to provide a more enduring influence.
He was matchlessly unorthodox, brave, loving, generous, riotously funny, as well as shrewd and unsentimental, in a blend of human chemistry that is indeed irreplaceable.
The shock caused by her views was matched by the unorthodoxy of her private life. Times, Sunday Times
A spokesperson for the EU said that while the Irish approach might be unorthodox, it wasn't unethical.
His unorthodox government has not helped to attract investors, and foreign banks lowered corporate credit ratings for new loans.
An unorthodox blend of biting satire and music-hall humour, it sometimes feels too whimsical for its own good. Times, Sunday Times
Once again, she plays the mother in an unorthodox family whose tribulations unfold around her. Times, Sunday Times
You have an unorthodox view of innovation. Computing
That they stayed together was proof of the strength of their unorthodox bond. Times, Sunday Times
The hour-plus finale thankfully shucked much of the grotesque Utah-Mormon-Gothic melodrama murderously mad prophet Alby was taken care of last week, shot down but not killed when he tried to storm the statehouse with the Henricksons inside and stressed the themes of an unorthodox family and marriage unit fighting for acceptance and survival in a judgmental and often violently unforgiving world. Roush Review: Big Love Finale
All of these books were ambitious, unorthodox, noteworthy, and yet ultimately uninfluential interventions from the margins.
McKenna is well aware the attacking threat could come from a more unorthodox source than Chris Sutton or Henrik Larsson.
In itself this doctrine was not unorthodox, but Malebranche's claim that the images were formed through God allowing the soul to look into His divine mind suggested, heretically, that the beatific vision was possible prior to death.
As he peers down the gun barrel with his high, unorthodox stance, he visualises former glories.
Throughout the century, homeopathists, herbalists, practitioners of electro-magnetism, and other unorthodox healers continued to attract patients and test the reach of the law.
Her unorthodox views tend to attract controversy.
Norwich Union staff took the lesson with a somewhat unorthodox approach. Times, Sunday Times
This unorthodox method an an bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
I'm afraid your English is somewhat unorthodox.
He should never turn back from a train of thought because it may lead to a heresy, and he should not mind very much if his unorthodoxy is smelt out, as it probably will be. Writers and Leviathan
Together, Hilliard and Rathman produce a sagacious survey of the tradition of hero-worship, and foster insightful tension between conventional and unorthodox imagery of virility. Bill Bush: Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20)
Predictably, those trying to be midwives to these new theologies (note the plural) are being criticized as heretics, unorthodox, disturbers of the peace, etc.
He acknowledged that his approach was unorthodox, if somewhat forced upon him. Times, Sunday Times
The Civil War, with its swashbuckling heroes, its staggering toll, and its consequence of emancipation, is the culmination of an unorthodox intellectual journey. WalMart and the Civil War
Still, the Emerging Church movement is treading on ground that traditionalists call unorthodox, if not heretical. Young Evangelicals Find Faith In Emerging Church Movement
His methods were unorthodox, and his lifestyle eccentric.
West found the unorthodox but well-reasoned lead of the king of clubs. Times, Sunday Times
I presume she thought the rarity of the day justified her unorthodox behaviour in an era when ladies were expected to remain giggling behind their fans.
Throughout the century, homeopathists, herbalists, practitioners of electro-magnetism, and other unorthodox healers continued to attract patients and test the reach of the law.
But they come under investigation themselves for their unorthodox methods. The Sun
Instead, the state tried to starve us out for our agricultural unorthodoxy, then they charged us with starvation.
What was it to him that these uneducated boors, in their feeble ignorance, tried constantly to entrap him into something which they called unorthodox, and to twist his words into the semblance of fancied heresy? St. Winifred's, or The World of School
Japan is so hot right now as Shoichi Aoki's exhibition of unorthodox fashion photography will prove.
Totally punk and 'romantically' rock 'n' roll; decadent and completely unorthodox. Kansas City Star: Front Page
The charity says the journalists appear to have obtained confidential documents in an unorthodox manner.
Will's unorthodox pedagogy involves challenging his students to apply literature's philosophical quandaries to their own lives. The Times Literary Supplement
The remedies suggested by the unorthodox doctrinaires are futile.
He was energetic, headstrong, and unorthodox-and he had compelling reasons for reducing the ruinously expensive Soviet nuclear arsenal.
The River Café Classic Cookbook admits using butter in a vongole is unorthodox – but harnessing its emulsifying properties to thicken the sauce is a tip Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray say they picked up from a seaside restaurant just outside Rome, and it's a good one. How to cook perfect spaghetti alle vongole
Apparently my unorthodox mode of dress had failed to meet the required sartorial standard. Times, Sunday Times
At his best, he mixes unorthodoxy with power and daring. The Sun
But his unorthodox methods and aggressive manner don't make him popular. The Sun
Sure enough, its reputation for unorthodoxy has gradually brought together a louche bunch of demented geniuses.
With his orthodox and unorthodox batting, he lambasts any type of bowling, tearing it into shreds.
She has an unorthodox technique, but is an excellent player.
Some of his methods were unorthodox, to say the least. Times, Sunday Times
That they stayed together was proof of the strength of their unorthodox bond. Times, Sunday Times
I came up with matching words such as distinct, novel, unconventional, unorthodox.
The unorthodox phrasing abstracts the original material and gives the composition an edgy modernness.
Faith in his own decision-making has made Watt an unorthodox football type since his days as a teenager on Celtic's books.
The sonographer was professionally unfazed by our unorthodox set-up. Charlie Condou: The three of us
Their unorthodox approach has also met with academic approval.
The effect is carnivalesque, a colorful outburst of ebullience and pleasure in unorthodox craft.
She was happy to live an extremely unorthodox way of life, travelling with him and content to remain alone when necessary.
You will soon develop quicker reactions and a sixth sense for when someone is going to do something unorthodox.
Although in use in Asia Minor, Italy, [v. 03 p. 0388] Sicily, and Greece, it is evident that the barbiton never won for itself a place in the affections of the Greeks of Hellas; it was regarded as a barbarian instrument affected by those only whose tastes in matters of art were unorthodox. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
The charity says the journalists appear to have obtained confidential documents in an unorthodox manner.
I'm pleased to be in a position to contribute to the armed forces bill debate on April 2; I made an unorthodox exit from the army two years ago.
Orban has shunned the IMF since taking office in 2010 to prevent interference in what he called his "unorthodox" measures. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
Naturally, his methods are unorthodox, being unheedful of proper procedure.
Though he has been criticized for his unorthodox sidearm delivery, he is the second-leading passer in the history of the league.
Where respect is concerned, it is behaviour that should be the issue, not unorthodox opinions or dress.
These injuries disturb me, for they indicate that some unorthodox methods were being tried.
“Luke has unorthodox techniques of placing original and found moving images in sculptural, architectural and natural environments, distorting the viewers’ perception of time and space.” Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » VIDEO STUFF
Historically, the natural competition between two matadors that has existed in bullfighting, has always included toreros of contrasting styles and appeals, such as the classic matador against the unorthodox or charismatic one.
His unorthodox approach to art is part of a general approach to knowledge and reality, and is always pervasively informed by his cognitivism, nominalism, relativism, and constructivism.
Professor Davis's unorthodox methodology split historians over whether his estimates were plausible but they welcomed any attempt to fill a gap in the little-known story of Africans subjugating Europeans.
Despite its inauspicious beginnings, the pair of them had an unorthodox, but happy marriage that lasted until Charlotte's death in 1943.
It is not only unorthodox but also inhuman and borders on the violation of human rights.
Over time, his unorthodoxy worked against him. Times, Sunday Times
Antiochene phraseology, and they respect the hypostatic union (enosis kath hypostasin) as well as the physike enosis as unorthodox and unscriptural. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Convinced it had a best seller on its hands, Random House came up with the unorthodox idea of relaunching the book.
Mind you, it only caught my eye because I possibly have the most unorthodox views on the island.
You may need to use some unorthodox methods. The Sun
Both men had unorthodox, itinerant upbringings.
Elsewhere, seeing the accomplished ballet dancer triumph in the often unorthodox challenges of Ms. Tharp, partly due to the choreographer's pointework detailing, I began to wonder if some Cunningham stager Patricia Lent was in charge of "Duets" here would countenance somehow working pointes into Cunningham's footwork. ABT's City Center Season Worked Best With Ballet
However unorthodox her interpretation of landscape is, she is traditional in her preparation.
These injuries disturb me, for they indicate that some unorthodox methods were being tried.
Brown is known to be unorthodox - he earned the moniker "governor moonbeam" during his first stint as governor from 1975 to 1983 - and he urged legislators to "rise above ideology and partisan interest" after taking the oath of office in January. SFGate: Top News Stories
But this kind of oversight is not required for new, unorthodox surgical procedures. A New Way to Be Mad
Dinners got longer, and we would take a break if necessary to make room for delectable baklava, thick with pistachios (or sometimes unorthodox peanuts) and honey.
Tolerance for unorthodox political expression was simply not an ideological possibility.
Foust recalled her daughter setting some sort of high jump record, and doing it in unorthodox form. USATODAY.com - Roethlisberger uses TD passes to honor late mother
He resolves ‘to follow the mahatma's call ’, but chooses some unorthodox varieties of Gandhian sacrifice and civil disobedience.
Often there was a characteristic element of unorthodoxy in his approach. Times, Sunday Times

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