Back in the supermarket, the most oppressively conformist aisle is that in which wine is sold. |
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They can step outside of the conformist straitjackets of their own culture and become hip, become cool. |
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Previously, many people were passive, conformist churchgoers, experiencing church as a television without a remote control. |
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Far from daring, he was a conformist, reinforcing the majority culture views of New Yorker readers. |
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Isn't being a blind rebel equivalent to being a conformist of a different kind? |
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This reconciliation with the social order is not when you realize you're wrong and come home a conformist. |
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Avoiding suspicion often meant embracing, at least outwardly, a conservative and conformist attitude. |
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I believe British society is more conformist than it has been for 20 years. |
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Reciprocally, conformity theory predicts that spiritual experiences in turn reinforce conformist beliefs and practices. |
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Given what a generally ghastly, self-obsessed and conformist experience being a teenager is, this should come as something of a relief. |
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That doesn't mean you have to like it, but music this stark and astringent seems astonishing in these rigidly conformist times. |
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Now, in this increasingly conformist society, even students are joining in with the spirit of censorship. |
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The Western system functions by allowing small islands of dissent in an overwhelming sea of conformist propaganda. |
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As long as a pupil is quiet, inconspicuous and conformist, everything is fine. |
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It is a chance to express their natural desire for a little creative devilment, usually at the expense of their conformist elders. |
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I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness. |
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He gets a job working for IBM, the acme of corporate, conformist paternalism, the antithesis of bohemianism. |
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I agree that romanticism aestheticizes everything but I do not see it as conformist in the way you do. |
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Polls suggest that, in these increasingly health-obsessed and conformist times, public opinion might also now be amenable. |
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His grating voice, frameless spectacles, faded suits and short, stringy hair all broke with the conformist protest style. |
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After graduating, he decides to become a complete conformist in order to deflect any future criticism, much to the horror of his artsy parents. |
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The basic value of the conformist state is that of duty, and of the negativistic state is that of freedom. |
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But sometime in the past 40 years, Western society decided that deferential, ordered and conformist societies cramped creativity and personal expression. |
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We see glimpses of your former, less conformist self, reemerging, which has plans to stick around. |
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I think there is more often than not a routine that takes place between improvisers that is more conformist and restrictive than they would ever imagine or admit to. |
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A recurring theme is the desire for individuality and one of the show's deliberate paradoxes is how conformist that desire can be. |
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I know people who have really struggled with the Church, or rejected the very idea of virtue, because they think living virtuously would make them conformist automatons. |
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But there remains a suspicion that he is too unorthodox a player to sit happily in a conformist England side. |
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Despite that, however, he is still promoting his conformist views on the virtues of education. |
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So shouldn't it be that winning is the mark of the conformist? |
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I do not know for how long I can pretend to be even a mock conformist. |
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Are you an individualist or simply a conformist in disguise? |
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In a society of individualists nobody dare admit to being a conformist. |
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Far from showing courage as a satirist, Pierre is a conformist who avoids challenging the sensibilities of the snobbish, transatlantic liberal left. |
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He is so full of his own importance that he has published a book explaining how heroic, free-thinking people like himself are superior to the conformist masses. |
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Despite his talk about nonconformity, the author is decidedly conformist. |
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At the other end of the spectrum, the major film industry tends to be less innovative and more conformist. |
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There is no progress without risks and there is no leap of understanding if you cannot think outside the conformist playing field. |
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As a dedicated contrarian I'm always uneasy with the way in which people, who are as individuals rational and intelligent, can be transformed into scarily conformist drones. |
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What remains is an Orwellian baseline, melding conformist ideology and nationalism into red-white-and-blue doublethink. |
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Eccentrics live longer, happier, and healthier lives than conformist normal citizens, according to the neuropsychologist David Weeks. |
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In the not-so-distant past, society was much more outwardly homogenous and conformist, and the law did not shrink from reproving conduct deemed offensive to public morals or likely to corrupt youth. |
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That same palmy decade gave rise to Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, the back-slapping conformist from Gopher Prairie who was to become an American stereotype. |
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In addition, it was considered necessary to overcome the poorness of the representative democracy and the moulding of the citizens in conformist behaviours. |
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Millions of people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to rally under the Charlie slogan but that was all about conformist defiance in the face of terrorist horror. |
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One is religious, puritanical, family-centred and somewhat conformist. |
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Singapore's attempt to establish itself as a biotechnology centre faces the challenge of encouraging risk-taking and entrepreneurialism in a highly conformist society. |
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The musicians seemed to think that success is achieved through conformist behaviour and, above all else, the need to look out for one's own interests. |
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Intolerance creates a conformist culture and a closed society, which narrows citizens' perceptions of politics and shapes their subsequent behaviour. |
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I am aware for the high price I am willing to pay, but I am not in politics to be opportunist and conformist. |
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The non conformist minister''''s son from Anglesey turned to politics after a career in newspaper and broadcast journalism. |
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Perhaps yesterday's rolling outlaw is now the popular hero of legions of out-of-work conformist citizens? |
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And to do so means giving the older, conformist view of the postwar years its due. |
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Shaped by the recent Soviet past and influenced by traditions of hierarchy and conservative attitudes, Central Asia is a region prone to conformist thinking. |
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A conformist, he imposed a degree of obedience on the clergy that apparently alarmed even the Queen's ministers, such as Lord Burghley. |
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The titular hero realised how impossible it had become for him to integrate into the new conformist society. |
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During this time, a distinctive period of Soviet culture developed characterized by conformist public life and intense focus on personal life. |
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The natural inclination of man is to seek freedom and happiness, and freedom necessarily threatens a rigid theocracy committed to a conformist doctrine. |
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Anne's husband was placed in an unfortunate position when Anne forced him to vote for the bill, even though, being a Lutheran, he was an occasional conformist himself. |
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He traces the lawn's history from colonial days, when the Pilgrims transplanted turf from England, to its proliferation among post-World War II conformist suburbanites. |
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