Sentences with maverick
mav·er·ick
M m - He was too much of a maverick ever to hold high office.
- ...a maverick group of scientists, who oppose the prevailing medical opinion on the disease.
- He was a monk and maverick philosopher; she, the apt and eager pupil.
- Unfortunately, before leaving on his American adventure, he apparently forgot to pack his maverick streak.
- A maverick politician
- Florence Nightingale would have been perceived as a maverick during her early career, because she was prioritizing hygiene when everybody else involved in healthcare was focused on other things, such as surgery and pills. (Source: Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh, Trick or Treatment, 2008, p. 36-37. )
- I was just some awkward maverick with money in his pockets.
- The maverick MP had intended to vote against the measure.
- He made a maverick decision. He is a maverick person.
- A modern-dance maverick.
- As a maverick director he often chose his players on a whim and had them work without repeated takes.
- For obvious reasons, the Nobel Committee is unlikely to honor this fascinating maverick now or ever.
- A maverick fiscal conservative willing to raise taxes.
- We've evolved from a hot young maverick to a world-class business magazine.
- Maybe, as one maverick biologist suggested to howls of protest last week, genetic selection may mean we have finally found a way towards evolving as a species.
- Far from being a deep-dyed traditionalist, he is a maverick, a valuable eccentric, who uses his influence to stimulate rather than stifle debate.
- Hollywood is notoriously bad at handling maverick talents, and now it has a potential star on its hands who defies the usual female type of small, skinny, milk-toast Caucasians.
- Impressionism is not some hazy notion about how a bunch of maverick artists at the end of the 19th century decided to paint the world as if it looked blurred.
- His face displays a limited emotional range and, at times, his portrayal of the maverick scientist is boring.
- I spent a few hours scratching my head and looking for a cryptic code which might shed light on where this maverick genius is getting his ideas from.
- He was the quintessential intellectual maverick - a man who thrived on bending the rules and violating the regulations.
- There is a slow stirring of revolt that goes far beyond fuel protests and maverick votes for television presenters.
- And a long time maverick in American politics is being remembered for his influence on the nation.
- The press adored him, a prolific, maverick talent who survived on cheap noodles and peanut butter so he could make films with his dole money.
- And with those stories, we once again prove our own maverick streak.
- All I know is that MPs are very maverick so expect to be surprised!
- Both presented themselves as maverick anti-establishment politicians but campaigned hard on the traditional themes of the fascist right.
- Guests are encouraged to hire cars to explore the island's uncompromising and maverick terrain and to drive to restaurants on evenings when dinner is not provided.
- Griffin isn't a maverick, but he's hardly your cookie-cutter white guy riffing on about his crap job and PlayStation addiction.