unconventionality

Her sharp eye and wider sensibility will turn out to be very useful to Alice in her troubles, even if her unconventionality is something the uptight teenage Alice will find hard to accept.

American Wife « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

It does not matter that others find the value of interest in the "difficult" work, that the result of complexity and obscurity may be, for some readers, greater depth; the structural, syntactic and semantic unconventionality is pretension in and of itself when set against standards of economy and efficiency, simplicity and accessibility.

Archive 2008-04-01 Hal Duncan 2008

It does not matter that others find the value of interest in the "difficult" work, that the result of complexity and obscurity may be, for some readers, greater depth; the structural, syntactic and semantic unconventionality is pretension in and of itself when set against standards of economy and efficiency, simplicity and accessibility.

Pretentiousness Hal Duncan 2008

Wilde was a conventional man: his unconventionality was the very pedantry of convention: never was there a man less an outlaw than he.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

Wilde was a conventional man: his unconventionality was the very pedantry of convention: never was there a man less an outlaw than he.

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

Many folks make what they are pleased to call unconventionality a mere cloak for selfish disregard of the feelings and tastes of others.

The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896

Wilde was a conventional man: his unconventionality was the very pedantry of convention: never was there a man less an outlaw than he.

Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions Frank Harris 1893

Sometimes the effect is a kind of unconventionality not only of the matter, but also of the form, which cannot be learned from anyone.

MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part III) 2009

Is not all inattention of mind to the courtesies of life, all roughness and slovenliness, all crude unconventionality which is proud of its self-assertion, a "falling from love" in seeking self?

The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart

His pettiness would be dispersed, and as for his "unconventionality," which was so much gossiped about at Sawston, she began to see that it did not differ greatly from certain familiar notions of her own.

Where Angels Fear to Tread 1924