Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
counterculture
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Examples
-
6I also use the term hippie (along with counterculturalist, head, freak, and longhair) to designate those individuals engaged in countercultural radicalism.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
-
"Five years ago, none of my students at Tsinghua or Beida had any interest in what we would call countercultural stuff," says Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Beida's -- that is, Peking University's -- Guanghua School of Management who owns D-22 and the Maybe Mars label.
-
UU is so far "left" on the political spectrum it could be seen and surely has been described as a countercultural agent, but in reality, the UUA are more early adopters than countercultural.
-
It revealed the cynical ways in which the "countercultural" music industry was transformed in the 1960s and 1970s by industry executives such as David Geffen and by performers such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
-
Considerably more obscure is the fact that April 20th (or "4/20") is also a "countercultural" holiday during which the sorts of people who keep Altoids tins and eye drops in knitted purses celebrate the consumption of marijuana (or "Wednesday weed").
-
And Fox, as a network, has always been about that identity of the sort of scrappy, underdog kind of countercultural kind of figure.
-
And Fox, as a network, has always been about that identity of the sort of scrappy, underdog kind of countercultural kind of figure.
-
Turns out the artist is named Shepard Fairey and he has established an international presence as a kind of countercultural design artist.
-
Turns out the artist is named Shepard Fairey and he has established an international presence as a kind of countercultural design artist.
-
I think that what we saw in that kind of countercultural period in the 1960s was a kind of leveling of all sorts of hierarchies -- hierarchies of learning and hierarchies of authority.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.