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Definition of counterculture in English: counterculturenounˈkaʊntəkʌltʃəˈkaʊn(t)ərˌkəltʃər A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm. the idealists of the 60s counterculture Example sentencesExamples - Virginia Woolf's granddaughter, speaking at the Hay-On-Wye Literary festival, celebrates the triumph of the counterculture in Britain.
- In many ways, most of a counterculture's impact is limited to style.
- Still, there are jarring moments, such as the author's assessment of the effect on the counterculture of the expansion of America's war in Vietnam.
- Over the past two decades Almodóvar has moved from the counterculture to the mainstream.
- Anyone who is now going to be elected president has probably lived through the drug counterculture and the sexual revolution.
- Your political legacy, alas, will live long - but so will the vital counterculture you have spawned.
- And they have all declared years ago that Bukowski's poetry was no longer part of the counterculture.
- They're often astonished that they can meet someone who has influenced the bands that introduced them to the counterculture.
- The counterculture isn't dead but it needs some institutions to keep it alive.
- This counterculture is not a handful of people living very different lives.
- It should appeal to readers interested in social issues, psychology and the counterculture.
- In general, anarchism plays a big role in American radical politics and countercultures.
- As the great musical icon of the Sixties counterculture, Dylan has always been expected to live up to higher moral standards than the average rocker.
- Right now the counterculture's online and mainstream culture's in space.
- What was your relationship with the counterculture like?
- Even the counterculture and college saturnalias of the late 1960s did not corrupt my habits.
- You're all young enough to have missed the counterculture of the 1960s.
- Bjork occupies a rare position as both a mainstream pop icon and a major force in the counterculture.
- But where, in this fertile mess of war and unaccountability, is the raging counterculture to be found?
- The point of the various musical countercultures under the Soviets was not simply to hear music.
Derivatives adjective It's folksy, romantic and feminine, but with a countercultural edge to it, too. Example sentencesExamples - The word was first used by disillusioned American Democrats in the 1970s, when they rebelled against the countercultural leftists who had taken over their party.
- From the 1960s onward, Trocchi became a countercultural media figure rather than a writer.
- Any allegedly countercultural activity eventually comes full circle and the early adopters say ‘it's not how it used to be.’
- She drifted around the countercultural communities at Newbury, where she spent four months, and Faslane, where she joined the peace camp.
Definition of counterculture in US English: counterculturenounˈkaʊn(t)ərˌkəltʃərˈkoun(t)ərˌkəlCHər A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm. the idealists of the 60s counterculture Example sentencesExamples - You're all young enough to have missed the counterculture of the 1960s.
- Anyone who is now going to be elected president has probably lived through the drug counterculture and the sexual revolution.
- It should appeal to readers interested in social issues, psychology and the counterculture.
- As the great musical icon of the Sixties counterculture, Dylan has always been expected to live up to higher moral standards than the average rocker.
- This counterculture is not a handful of people living very different lives.
- In many ways, most of a counterculture's impact is limited to style.
- The counterculture isn't dead but it needs some institutions to keep it alive.
- They're often astonished that they can meet someone who has influenced the bands that introduced them to the counterculture.
- And they have all declared years ago that Bukowski's poetry was no longer part of the counterculture.
- Over the past two decades Almodóvar has moved from the counterculture to the mainstream.
- Right now the counterculture's online and mainstream culture's in space.
- Virginia Woolf's granddaughter, speaking at the Hay-On-Wye Literary festival, celebrates the triumph of the counterculture in Britain.
- Even the counterculture and college saturnalias of the late 1960s did not corrupt my habits.
- In general, anarchism plays a big role in American radical politics and countercultures.
- The point of the various musical countercultures under the Soviets was not simply to hear music.
- Still, there are jarring moments, such as the author's assessment of the effect on the counterculture of the expansion of America's war in Vietnam.
- Bjork occupies a rare position as both a mainstream pop icon and a major force in the counterculture.
- Your political legacy, alas, will live long - but so will the vital counterculture you have spawned.
- What was your relationship with the counterculture like?
- But where, in this fertile mess of war and unaccountability, is the raging counterculture to be found?
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