This signaled a refreshing departure from the Clinton years.

The Los Angeles Times called the film "a refreshing departure from conventional educational films."

Certainly it was a refreshing departure from the prosy or clumsy- witted efforts common to that period.

Mr. Pataki ran for the statehouse promising a refreshing departure from patronage and politics-as-usual.

Despite its modest budget and unpretentious use of special effects, many critics found Altitude a refreshing departure from the cookie-cutter school of horror films.

Finn Hudson's character is a refreshing departure from common glee club stereotypes.

This is a refreshing departure from the usual tendency of museum curators to spell everything out in baby talk.

I love that whole series of dead-end streets-relics of the town as it used to be, a refreshing departure from the pervading Spanish look.

Ambience meets ethnic techno rock to produce a refreshing departure from the usual death beat that can be heard pounding out of today's club scene.

It is a refreshing departure from the predictable and the prosaic elements that one encounters in many, if not most, Filipino films.