Examples of unruly

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The portrayal thus reverses the usual vector of disapproval of (or disgust for, or contemptuous 'admiration' of) males in loincloth, animal skins, unruly hair.
The deep focus it provides on structure often keeps an unruly content at bay.
First, regularity of strophic constructions and tight rhyme schemes are especially cultivated by the troubadours to impose structure on an unruly vernacular language.
Over the past five years older children have become unruly.
In their inexorable in-the-primordial-world-ness, the stuff of objects is by nature unruly.
My justification for adding to the overcrowded and unruly scene is simple.
Not surprisingly, therefore, given their unruly reputation, newspapers and periodicals were quick to seize upon examples of navvy loyalty wherever and whenever they occurred.
The evidence, however, proves too unruly to be captured within the proposed theoretical framework.
Circumstances of internal war had unleashed the reaction and intolerance of unruly loyalists.
What is not fathomable, however, is why such an unruly unit was placed in such a crucial zone at such a critical juncture.
To put it succinctly, what's wrong with the avant-garde is its unruly improvisational freedom.
Obligations serve to check, bind, or constrain our unruly wills.
He remembered details of school life vividly, but described the crisis as a riot by unruly students.
He attributed the recent falling economic performance to the unruly protesters, who scared away investors.
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