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Maverick in sentence

46 examples of Maverick in a sentence

A total maverick from a remote province of Afghanistan, he insisted that his daughter, my mom, go to school, and for that he was disowned by his father.
Therefore, he was not following everybody's lead, and therefore, he was a maverick.
And sadly, the same applied to another design maverick: Richard Buckminster Fuller.
He was a wonderful inventor, a maverick creator.
Otto Preminger was one of the great maverick film directors.Like John Huston he was a character from one of his own movies,like Mr Huston he was a wonderful ham who slipped in and out of performance at random but the final product of his labours was unmistakably his own.
Truly innovative, maverick, and just effing brilliant.
She's a motor-mouthed maverick, dazzlingly good at her job and with little time for romantic relationships.
Playing a maverick narcotics cop in Atlanta, GA is just what everyone wants.
Mr. Cato is played robustly by the figuratively and literally larger-than-life movie maverick Orson Welles.
The clichés come thick and fast; (waking from a recurring nightmare, maverick cop has his badge revoked by hardass lieutenant, to list more would be spoiling it - you can see the end a mile off).
While every now and then one will come across some maverick who will praise the film on philosophical grounds (aggressive feminism or the courage to tackle the issue of transgenderism), the film has not developed a cult following like some notorious flops do.
With an A-List cast, particularly the three leads and an experienced maverick director like Spike Lee I was expecting far more and in the end felt that what was delivered added little to this movie sub-genre.
Being a maverick within his circle, he begins to pay people to find bodies for him to study and test on.
Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan once again angers his superiors with his maverick approach to police work.
Tom Berenger plays another gruff, maverick military type well and William Mcnamara plays his rookie-about to be discharged foil well.
Pickup on South Street (1953), directed by movie maverick Samuel Fuller, contains a stunning opening that establishes a double complication.
Anyone new to the incredibly prolific Takashi Miike's work might want to think twice about making this startling film their first experience of this truly maverick director.
The only times when one feels the old Canadian maverick kicking in is when we see the video camera moving in on the man's face (Leslie Carlson as the actor, who has a great, unique face for long, lingering hand-held close ups).
headlines in this action(less) entry as maverick cop (yep, cliché territory, full steam ahead!) Mike Justice, a man who doesn't play by the rules.....etc.
Its weirdly right on target with the way things were done by the maverick film makers of the day.
Larry Holden's directorial debut shows that he is a true indie maverick.
Wolverine, always being the maverick he is, does not know which side to join.
The initial premise of a Gothic cop and horror movie hybrid is a pretty good idea and certainly prompted me to hire out the film!!!! However the film is badly hampered by wooden acting, especially in the case of the Police Chief who reminded me of Kenric and Moss from a Black Adder the Third episode and seemed to be unable to grasp the difference between screen acting and stage acting, the main one being that you don't need to scream your lines at the camera!!!! Carly Turnbull's performance at Albany was very flat and while acceptable in places seemed like she spent the majority of the film reading her lines of an autocue!!!! Having said that the two main leads did put in a pretty good effort with Kevin Howarth, who I think is criminally underrated, proving his worth yet again as a villain by contributing a very convincing and creepy performance showing his characters descent from maverick cop to homicidal monster.
James Woods delivers a sensationally intense, wired and riveting performance as shrewd, sleazy and blithely amoral maverick loose cannon Detective Lloyd Hopkins, who obsessively investigates a series of vicious homicides that have been going on for fifteen years.
A local maverick cop(Hong at Hong - Karen Wong) is soon on their trail - things become complicated when the next hit they undertake turns into a set-up and soon the two sisters are fighting for their lives while trying not get arrested.
Emmanuel Macron is also a maverick, but of a very different type.
The US establishment is using the scarecrow of Russian interference to regain its lost political control, particularly in the realm of social media, where a discontented population and maverick politicians have finally found a voice.
Ehud Olmert, the party’s leader and now elected prime minister, has been a maverick of the center since his student days – a fitting symbol for the rapprochement of left and right.
“It may sound maverick,” said Benno Ndulu, the bank’s governor.
As a result, Hirschman looks less and less the maverick that he fancied himself to be.