What's the difference between flapper and unconventional?

Flapper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, flaps.
  • (n.) See Flipper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’re back to those flappers, with their jobs and their knee-length skirts and their dangerous opinions about politics, or the girls of the 1960s destroying the traditional family by wantonly taking the pill.
  • (2) Marion Cotillard looks amazing in her selection of cocktail shift dresses in Woody Allen's time-travel comedy Midnight in Paris , while Bérénice Bejo, enchants in cloche hats and flapper dresses in silent-era pastiche The Artist .
  • (3) October 3, 2012 1.29am BST "If Mitt Romney doesn't take it to the president tonight, I think the Obama machine will win," says Fox News's resident jaw-flapper, Bill O'Reilly .
  • (4) Guests will also have the opportunity to bid on a trip to Malawi with Madonna , a portrait session with photography duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, and the star’s Swarovski crystal encrusted flapper dress, as worn on her Rebel Heart tour.
  • (5) Without a doubt, some of the fashions, such as the flapper "garçonne" ("little boy") look, evoked an emancipation of the traditional feminine codes.
  • (6) The Melbourne Truth reported: “Empty glasses, half-dressed girls, and an atmosphere poisonous with cigarette smoke and fumes of liquor – and, lounging about the flat, six negroes.” In parliament, an MP read out headlines like “Nude girls in Melbourne flat orgy” and “Raid discloses wild scene of abandon: flappers, wine, cocaine and revels”.
  • (7) On the other hand, there were autonomous movements that ranged from back-to-nature groups, such as the German Wandervögel or the British Woodcraft Folk , to consumerist types, such as 1920s flappers or swing kids in the 1930s.
  • (8) Have innovations in technology done what protest songs, love-ins and flapper dresses were unable to do?
  • (9) Apart from that, bring on series three and the Crawley girls in flapper dresses intoning: "Carson, fetch the cocaine!"

Unconventional


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tijuana, Mexico, has become a refuge for cancer patients who have been convinced that they may be cured of their terminal illness by unconventional, unproved, and disproved methods offered in the border clinics.
  • (2) Although not all reported unconventional applications of antimicrobial agents remain in use, sharpening awareness of their multifaceted actions should encourage broader understanding of all agents traditionally confined to specific uses.
  • (3) The use of an unconventional radiation fractionation schedule may have resulted in increased bowel morbidity in patients in the PLUS MISO arm who subsequently underwent cystectomy.
  • (4) Bruce decided another striker might now be necessary and replaced Sone Aluko with Abel Hernández, who immediately brought a save from Tom Heaton with an unconventional backheel.
  • (5) Despite the "immense challenges" which Yves Mersch cited today , BNP reckons the ECB will have to take unconventional action to fight off weak inflation and to stimulate growth.
  • (6) Industry estimates suggest there may be enough of this and other so-called "unconventional" forms of gas, which are newly accessible because of advances in a technique known as hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" – to power the globe for two centuries.
  • (7) Predominantly young people decide to change their life-style, unconventional eating practices being part of it.
  • (8) Scrapie-associated fibrils (SAFs) are abnormal filamentous structures that are uniquely associated with unconventional slow virus diseases.
  • (9) Unless they order Russia to leave its gas in the ground and Saudi Arabia to leave its oil in the ground (which nobody has proposed), they must phase out coal and prohibit unconventional fossil fuels.
  • (10) It is suggested that in M. mycoides, at least some of the family codon boxes are read by only one tRNA each, using an unconventional method which does not discriminate between the nucleotides in the third codon position.
  • (11) Support to those providing informal care might also be facilitated through community support services such as respite care, household maintenance, psychological support to care-givers, support groups, informal networks within a community and consideration of unconventional support methods.
  • (12) Since in general it is not possible to influence the families' eating practices, physicians should know the risks of unconventional diets, such as hypoproteinemia, calcium deficiency and deficiencies of vitamin B12 and vitamin D and the respective clinical symptoms.
  • (13) After retrobulbar inoculation, the unconventional ALSP virus disseminated both neurogenically (along the optic nerve) and hematogenically.
  • (14) Unconventional fractionation is no less promising, and as distinct from radiomodifiers it does not require extra resources or special equipment.
  • (15) There are differences, however, between MIL and MIB in the sequence organization of their unconventional C-terminal domains.
  • (16) Aqueous humor leaves the anterior chamber through 2 pathways: the trabecular meshwork of the iridocorneal angle and the unconventional uveoscleral route.
  • (17) Anesthesiologists may be required to secure an airway in an unconventional manner in these patients, as well as use special ventilation methodology and challenging anesthesia techniques.
  • (18) One clone recognizes an unconventional TL-encoded antigen, whereas others have been shown to recognize either classical MHC class I or class II antigens.
  • (19) To determine whether unconventional pathogens causing subacute spongiform encephalopathy may be present in blood products, a newly developed hepatitis B vaccine and a widely used blood product were injected into mice and rats.
  • (20) Mariela Castro, the daughter of President Raúl Castro and niece of Fidel Castro, has given an unprecedented "no" vote in the Cuban parliament to a workers' rights bill she felt didn't go far enough to prevent discrimination against people with HIV or with unconventional gender identities.

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