march to the beat of a different drummer
march to a different drum

"I march to the beat of a different drummer," she said.

However, there was a price to pay for marching to the beat of a different drummer.

Now, our politics marches to the beat of a different drummer.

Like her husband and her son, the woman marched to the beat of a different drummer.

The media runs with scandal on its nightly news because it marches to the beat of a different drummer.

It is often expressed, in the words of Thoreau as the right to "march to the beat of a different drummer".

The one who -- let's be real here -- marches to the beat of a different drummer.

Their main goal in life is to show Daddy and his Rotarian friends that they will always march to the beat of a different drummer.

The holidays are synonymous with the sound of chiming church bells, but in Washington we march to the beat of a different drummer.

'The Amazing Race': Marching to the beat of a different drummer

He excelled academically, while a number of teachers and fellow students observed that he "marched to the beat of a different drummer."

Disparaging term for any cyclist who "is marching to the beat of a different drummer", or a novice cyclist.

"V.M.I. truly marches to the beat of a different drummer," he said then, "and I will permit it to continue to do so."

I'm interested in how it is that people coming out of the same social context as the rest of us march to the beat of a different drummer."

In one dissent, John Purtle wrote, "I may march to the beat of a different drummer, but I have never marched with a goose step."

Alexis Cohen, a 23-year-old from Allentown studying to be a vet, understatingly said, “I march to the beat of a different drummer.”

Ms. Harmon described Mr. Karr as "an unusual man" who "marches to the beat of a different drummer"; she would not elaborate.

The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan marched to the beat of a different drummer today in this western Illinois suburb.

He was an odd man, to say the least, one who would march to the beat of a different drummer, and then loudly and abusively tell the drummer to shut up.

Thomas, the Dallas Cowboys running back who definitely marched to the beat of a different drummer, said that if the Super Bowl is the ultimate game, why are they playing again next year?

And he had firmly established himself in the consciousness of his countrymen as that quintessential American icon: the lone wolf, he who marches to the beat of a different drummer, the maverick.

The teacher had written a note in the card saying: "Your son is marching to the beat of a different drummer, but don't worry we will soon have him joining the parade by the end of the term."

The speaker was good-naturedly trying to get a rise out of me, and wishing to give a noncommittal answer, I quoted Thoreau: "Well, I happen to like to march to the beat of a different drummer."

Summarizing Pialat's stance as a filmmaker in a profile for Film Comment, critic Kent Jones wrote: "To say that Pialat marched to the beat of a different drummer is to put it mildly."

MY uncle Len has always marched to the beat of a different drummer, and that beat led him, on a recent weekend, to check in at the Hotel Thayer at West Point for "undisclosed reasons."