Word: unorthodox
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...should be used to it; this sort of thing happens to me all the time. Innocent bystanders recommend movie, newspapers swoon over movie, Academy nominates movie. I go see movie and spend days fuming. My taste in movies, I've come to understand, is what might politely be called "unorthodox," or, more bluntly, "weird...
...York's unorthodox approach is just one of many that states are taking to salvage deregulation. In Ohio, which opened up its market this year, the state is encouraging groups of customers--schools, churches or entire neighborhoods and cities--to band together in pools to negotiate better deals from the suppliers. In New Jersey, where one of the few newfangled energy providers on the scene closed shop because of high costs, officials are trying to reduce the paperwork required for a customer to leave his old utility. Some New England states require their utilities to keep a sufficient reserve...
...suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxical your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders?...
...miles a week, sometimes in place in the bathtub, or with his wife on his shoulders. He was dismissed from the military and reduced to manual labor after standing on anticommunist front lines during the 1968 Prague Spring. He broke 18 world records but once said of his unorthodox, arm-flailing, grimacing style, "I wasn't talented enough to run and smile at the same time...
...Washington's heavily fortified embassy, but it won't have much trouble finding an American fast-food outlet - as KFC discovered to its detriment last month. And with some 39 McDonald's outlets now operating in Egypt, it's hardly surprising that Middle Eastern franchise owners are developing seemingly unorthodox marketing tactics...