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  • some noble souls from the ranks of organized religion have broken loose from the paralyzing chains of conformity and joined us as active partners in the struggle for freedom.   (source)
    conformity = complying with the majority (fitting in)
  • But sometimes his failure to conform brought terrible consequences.†   (source)
  • I tie my shoes in a hurry, pull on a jacket, and sprint out of the room, catching up to the line of initiates quickly, conforming my pace to theirs.†   (source)
  • Confine, confute, conform—I've had totally enough of that scene."†   (source)
  • The classes they taught were for no student's special development; their interests were the subject themselves—their passions were for the politics of the university, or of their own departments within it—and their overall view of us students was that we should conform ourselves to their methods of their disciplines of study.†   (source)
  • I reach past the frayed back pockets of the jeans that conform to the butt that I'm not looking at and pick up the dry nightie.†   (source)
  • As we walked rapidly along I abruptly resented the bell and my West Point stride and hurrying and conforming.†   (source)
  • Her leg was beginning to ache from carrying it, but she resisted the urge to limp, picturing ever-graceful Pearl in her ball gown and heels, and wished her body into conformity.†   (source)
  • Somehow it seemed to conform to a pattern that he couldn't see.†   (source)
  • HALLORANN The cook didn't conform to Wendy's image of the typical resort hotel kitchen personage at all.†   (source)
  • It defiantly reaches one hand over its shoulder and returns with a cannonlike gun that begins conforming to its body, the gun wrapping around its forearm.†   (source)
  • Nothing on this day had conformed to any precedent.†   (source)
  • They all had the same moms with the same generous buttocks in stretchy slacks and the same frosted-and-curling-ironed hairdos, and they were all basically sweet and endearing and conforming and, if they happened to be smart, they went out of their way to hide it.†   (source)
  • We will make conformists out of them in a hurry ….†   (source)
  • There are conformists and freethinkers.†   (source)
  • Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.†   (source)
  • "I want to see if different cultures' folktales conform to Teccam's theory of narrative septagy."†   (source)
  • Only two of his actions did not seem to conform to this image.†   (source)
  • We are daily confronted by the terrifying instability of all things human, yet we permit our religions to grow more rigid and controlled, more conforming and oppressive.†   (source)
  • Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do.†   (source)
  • When I answered, "I don't," they looked at me uncomfortably, as though they had just stumbled upon something unspeakably subversive going on in well-ordered, homogeneous, conformist Boca Raton.†   (source)
  • "You were selected as jurors in this case," Judge Lew Fielding continued, "in the belief that each of you could, without fear, favor, prejudice, or sympathy, in sound judgment and clear conscience, render a just verdict on evidence presented in conformity with these instructions.†   (source)
  • Kant claimed that it is not only mind which conforms to things.†   (source)
  • Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.†   (source)
  • Have you ever considered that men, especially men, must conform to certain demands of the community they live in simply so they can be of service to it?†   (source)
  • Where did conforming ever get me?†   (source)
  • As usual, Mrs. Clare's notions conformed with those of very few.†   (source)
  • These fellows refused to conform to even basic prison regulations.†   (source)
  • By now, even the youngest Yearlings have learned Blackcliff's most essential lessons: Obey, conform, and keep your mouth shut.†   (source)
  • Why, friends, you don't suppose there's anything to this rumor that our Mr. McMurphy has conformed to policy merely to aid his chances of an early release?†   (source)
  • The matter grows even more confusing when you realize that in many places the spelling and pronunciation of foreign words were altered by the resident population to conform to their own language.†   (source)
  • They want everyone to follow them, to conform to their freaky ideas of what it means to become a vamp.†   (source)
  • She began to intelligently guard her speech, her manner, her very thoughts, conforming them to what she knew of his ideals.†   (source)
  • Independent or conforming?†   (source)
  • Ramius became known as a captain whose officers were both proficient and models of political conformity.†   (source)
  • Conformity she said.†   (source)
  • As a NASA employee, she had become accustomed to working with engineers who conformed to a sort of industry standard: white, well educated, conservative clothes.†   (source)
  • She talked more about her mother and father and their polar personalities; she told him a bit about her sisters and what it was like to grow up with so much pressure to conform.†   (source)
  • I took each reprimand for what it was: an awareness that the specificity of my rape did not matter, but only how and if it conformed to an established charge.†   (source)
  • Food, drink, and security in conformity.†   (source)
  • I hoped that Snow Flower was happier now, conforming—as all wives must—to circumstances completely different from anything she had known before.†   (source)
  • With others I won't conform, to prove my expertise My God, have I created a masterpiece?†   (source)
  • Their smiles were all the more complacent because he had never had the reputation of being a conformist.†   (source)
  • The Cold War was on and today's edition of TASS, the Soviet Union's sanctioned newspaper, announced, "Successful tests of an intercontinental ballistic rocket and explosions of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons have been carried out in conformity with the plan of scientific research work in the USSR."†   (source)
  • But finally I took my personal leap of faith: I believe that God loves honesty more than conformity.†   (source)
  • You look at it from the outside, and you see conformity and brainwashing.†   (source)
  • Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway?†   (source)
  • I am older now, and the conformist in me tells me I should start building a real life of some kind, any kind, but that cannot happen yet, if ever.†   (source)
  • That, and his singularly acute intellect, had served him well; he was sent to posts where more conformist men would not have been half so effective.†   (source)
  • I do not wish a Senator to dress like a beau, but I want him to conform so far as to the fashion as not to incur the character of singular-ity, nor give occasion to the world to ask what kind of mother he had or to charge upon a wife negligence and inattention when she is guiltless.†   (source)
  • The universe refuses the deadening influence of complete conformity.†   (source)
  • Katie, an intern for the Jaguars, chose to quit her job and date Gannon, rather than conform to their no-fraternization clause.†   (source)
  • The coats were stiff and dome-shaped, having conformed to their piles.†   (source)
  • Should we sacrifice the contentment of the whole of mankind to the greed of a few non-conformists?†   (source)
  • Will there be, for example, an irresistible drive toward a more standardized American, with consequent disenfranchisement, or neglect, of those whose dialects do not conform?†   (source)
  • It demanded a limitless conformity from its sons, and we concurred blindly.†   (source)
  • The Fomorian reported that once Nick's quills and claws had been added to the crucible, the material became stubborn and willful—it simply would not conform to every hammer stroke, and it cooled so quickly that he finally abandoned the effort to make it beautiful.†   (source)
  • At first I simply could not stand the conformism and the cowardice, and then, with the results predetermined, I came up against the loyalty oaths and the informers.†   (source)
  • This conclusion seems to conform with common sense.†   (source)
  • How the proposed Constitution conforms to the principles of republican government.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I'm conforming, then not conforming; and up, then down; me, then YOU!†   (source)
  • Had you known you could have asked him how long he had conformed to the ration and why he quit?†   (source)
  • And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.†   (source)
  • The century has witnessed the defeat of Nazism by force of arms; but the erosion of the Soviet regimes was caused, among other things, by the sheer persistence, beneath the imposed ideological conformity, of cultural values and psychic resistances of a kind that these stories and images enshrine.†   (source)
  • An attack is rarely planned to conform to a victim's five-day, forty-hour week so Hawker divided his most experienced officers into three shifts covering the whole day.†   (source)
  • They sought to make themselves conform ever more perfectly to God's will, whereas outside I had seen mostly men who sought to make God's will conform to their wretched prejudices.†   (source)
  • He beckoned me to sit down, and after uttering a few strained civilities came directly to the point, namely, my clear failure within his perspective to conform to certain aspects of the McGraw-Hill "profile."†   (source)
  • BRADY Unless the state of mind of the members of the jury conforms to the laws and patterns of society— DRUMMOND Conform!†   (source)
  • She never conformed in dress or conduct.†   (source)
  • Having himself no particular opinions or tastes, he relied upon whatever conformed with those of his companion.†   (source)
  • But it was precisely their conformism, their transparent sanctimoniousness, that exasperated Yurii Andreievich.†   (source)
  • I felt a necessity for absolute conformity to my ideas in any happening I witnessed.†   (source)
  • He would have to adapt himself, and if he did not conform, would be rejected: the issue was clear to him, he had heard the phrase "getting used to our ideas" too often to have any illusions on the point.†   (source)
  • If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.   (source)
  • She is content with the success of a hard-working conformist.
    conformist = someone who thinks and acts like others in a group
  • A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.   (source)
    conforms = complies, fits in, or is similar to what is normal
  • You cannot have a circle that does not conform to this law.†   (source)
  • The best it can do is make you try harder to conform to some ethic on the outside.†   (source)
  • Not because you're a poor liar, but because it doesn't conform with the facts.†   (source)
  • For years I tried to force my beliefs to conform to this view.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Parliament changes existing laws so that they conform to a new treaty.†   (source)
  • Although all geometry theorems can be proven, they don't all conform to common sense.†   (source)
  • Because the passions of men won't conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.†   (source)
  • Conformity should be carefully maintained.†   (source)
  • Federal Judiciary Conforms to Principles†   (source)
  • This conforms to the most approved State constitutions, including New York's.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the true interpretation is whether it conforms to the source from which it is derived.†   (source)
  • Conform to the customs of the house, especially as to meals.†   (source)
  • But I do feel like every second we spend standing these inches apart is one that I must impress upon my mind until my entire memory conforms to its shape.†   (source)
  • It asks you to lead a reasonably clean life, it asks that you join the Kiwanis Club, to go to church on Sunday, it asks you to conform to its ways—†   (source)
  • San Bernardino in 1948 supplied the nation with a new yin and yang, new models of conformity and rebellion.†   (source)
  • Up to now Phaedrus had been compelled by the academic system to say what he wanted, even though he knew that this forced students to conform to artificial forms that destroyed their own creativity.†   (source)
  • There isn't any question that we are conforming in every possible way to everything that's happening and everything that's going to happen.†   (source)
  • It's proper to begin with the regular facts, but after a rule is established beyond all doubt, the facts in conformity with it become dull because they no longer teach us anything new.†   (source)
  • Yes, the material of our knowledge comes to us through the senses, but this material must conform to the attributes of reason.†   (source)
  • One of the ironies of America's fast food industry is that a business so dedicated to conformity was founded by iconoclasts and self-made men, by entrepreneurs willing to defy conventional opinion.†   (source)
  • THERE IS NOTHING INEVITABLE about the fast food nation that surrounds us — about its marketing strategies, labor policies, and agricultural techniques, about its relentless drive for conformity and cheapness.†   (source)
  • Things also conform to the mind.†   (source)
  • Only when we follow our 'practical reason'— which enables us to make moral choices—do we exercise our free will, because when we conform to moral law, it is we who make the law we are conforming to.†   (source)
  • Today we would probably use the word 'conformity'; that is when everybody 'thinks' and 'believes in' the same things without having any deeper feeling about it.†   (source)
  • The other is the internal conditions in man himself—such as the perception of events as happening in time and space and as processes conforming to an unbreakable law of causality.†   (source)
  • Only when we follow our 'practical reason'— which enables us to make moral choices—do we exercise our free will, because when we conform to moral law, it is we who make the law we are conforming to.†   (source)
  • In a family that prized loyalty and conformity above all else, he was different, and there was no worse sin.†   (source)
  • He was startled to see how much he had aged, how his hands shook, and the rather punctilious conformity with which he awaited death, and then he felt a great disgust with himself, which he mingled with the beginnings of pity.†   (source)
  • 'He's ascribed that failure to the Russian penchant for corruption and mindless conformity in the higher ranks, and alcohol in the lower ones.†   (source)
  • Hence again I have stayed in my hole, because up above there's an increasing passion to make men conform to a pattern.†   (source)
  • If we apportion those who did not comment on the subject evenly between the two sides, the picture would conform with the results of a poll in March, 1863, in the 15th Iowa, a fairly typical regiment.†   (source)
  • Eckert's well-known study, published as Jocks and Burnouts, divided the high-school population into students who tended to conform to adult norms (Jocks) and those resisting adult authority (Burnouts).†   (source)
  • Manifesto noted that Terran scientists still in Luna could return home in any vessel which conformed to our requirements.†   (source)
  • And yet he remained, held by the pressure of this unnatural group who had made of immortality a conformist's club.†   (source)
  • On the right was a large white conference table above the white-tiled floor, the only deviation to colour conformity and asepsis being several black ashtrays.†   (source)
  • Unlike surface ships, which changed their clocks to conform with the local time wherever they were, submarines generally adhered to a single time reference.†   (source)
  • I will tell Your Worship why: the real purpose of this rigid color bar is to ensure that the justice dispensed by the courts should conform to the policy of the country, however much that policy might be in conflict with the norms of justice accepted in judiciaries throughout the civilized world…… Your Worship, I hate racial discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations.†   (source)
  • But unlike Amaranta, unlike all of them, Meme still did not reveal the solitary fate of the family and she seemed entirely in conformity with the world, even when she would shut herself up in the parlor at two in the afternoon to practice the clavichord with an inflexible discipline.†   (source)
  • At least he wears horrible neckties and funny padded suits in the middle of that frightened, super-conservative, super-conforming madhouse.†   (source)
  • Also 'Lisbon' and the piers along the 'Bay' and 'Tagus River' have been altered to conform to the changes that have taken place.†   (source)
  • I'm describing an intelligent, very ill man whose background conformed with what other men were looking for.†   (source)
  • As usual, Willie-Jay understood; disheartened but not disenchanted, he had persisted in courting Perry's soul until the day of its possessor's parole and departure, on the eve of which he wrote Perry a farewell letter, whose last paragraph ran: "You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frustrated man striving to project his individuality against a backdrop of rigid conformity.†   (source)
  • Since I was born a McLean and not a St. Croix, I was not tormented by the formidable demons of the city that cried out in disengaged voices for conformity from its sons and daughters.†   (source)
  • It also stems from the increasing isolation of black inner-city residents from both whites and middle-class blacks, and stems as well from a deep cynicism about the payoffs of conforming.†   (source)
  • And oh, how much I wanted to confide to him the breadth of what I didn't understand; how, searching all these years, I'd been astonished to discover those vampires above had made of immortality a club of fads and cheap conformity.†   (source)
  • Why, if they follow this conformity business they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one.†   (source)
  • Then he thought that Gaston was not as foolish as he appeared, but, quite the contrary, was a man of infinite steadiness, ability, and patience who had set about to conquer his wife with the weariness of eternal agreement, of never saying no, of simulating a limitless conformity, letting her become enmeshed in her own web until the day she could no longer bear the tedium of the illusions close at hand and would pack the bags herself to go back to Europe.†   (source)
  • Another Factor: Local Pride and Identity So—mysterious forces within society, operating beneath consciousness, are driving significant language change, making Americans from one region harder for others to understand at a time when other mass trends in our society are toward conformity.†   (source)
  • There Kerouac joined the poet Allen Ginsberg and others in the Beat Movement, in alcohol-and-drug-fueled protest against the conformity and crass consumerism of 1950s America, which made them feel beaten, longing for the beatitude, or blessedness, of the natural world.†   (source)
  • It might even be impossible to create a regulation acceptable to all the States or that would perfectly conform to the State institutions.†   (source)
  • But this parliamentary action comes from a different cause—the need to adjust an artificial, intricate system of revenue and commercial laws to conform to the treaty.†   (source)
  • The specific powers of the federal judiciary, as stated in the Constitution, seem to conform to the principles that govern the structure of the judiciary.†   (source)
  • However, three observations should be made: Most were either necessary because of the war or they were recommended by national Congress or the commander-in-chief Most conformed to the sentiments of the legislature.†   (source)
  • Maintains Conformity in Trade†   (source)
  • We were as conformist as army worms.†   (source)
  • BRADY Unless the state of mind of the members of the jury conforms to the laws and patterns of society— DRUMMOND Conform!†   (source)
  • As the situation in the South degenerated after the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregation, he was faced with a choice—either he must continue more and more to alter truth to make it conform to people's comfort, or he must write the truth in the dim hope that people would alter their comfort to conform to it.†   (source)
  • Conform!†   (source)
  • In conformity with his own tactics, he sent only a small troop of forty spears to start the work.†   (source)
  • But that is all the more reason for their making a special effort to conform.†   (source)
  • They conformed to nothing except what was essential to their being able to live in their world.†   (source)
  • For this reason and no other—I didn't conform to Charleston and I couldn't.†   (source)
  • It was a charming room, oddly shaped to conform with the curve of the dome.†   (source)
  • In the old days he had hidden a heretical mind beneath an appearance of conformity.†   (source)
  • That much seemed definite, seemed to conform with his own belief, that much he could grasp.†   (source)
  • He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself-creatures, whose life, on its miniature scale, will be qualitatively like His own, not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His.†   (source)
  • And this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favorable to political conformity.†   (source)
  • Altogether they had shot about five priests - two or three had escaped, the bishop was safely in Mexico City, and one man had conformed to the Governor's law that all priests must marry.†   (source)
  • In shaking hands I was doing something that I was to do countless times in the years to come: acting in conformity with what others expected of me even though, by the very nature and form of my life, I did not and could not share their spirit.†   (source)
  • No-science has not yet induced the hens to conform to modern tastes, they still lay eggs of different sizes and colours!†   (source)
  • Perhaps Fascism wanted to show its up-to-dateness, to conceal the fact that it was a retrogression; perhaps it wanted to conform to the tastes of the wealthy elite it served.†   (source)
  • No prospect was more hateful and distasteful to him than that he should have to go to an office and conform to daily and yearly routine and obey others.†   (source)
  • The rideresses in Chapultepec, those patrician ladies in hard hats and immense skirts and foot-conforming little black leather shoes, sitting sidesaddle, they impressed me.†   (source)
  • It is because he is a romantic, and he has a picture of the world in his head, and when the world doesn't conform in any respect to the picture, he wants to throw the world away.†   (source)
  • So, pretending to conform to the laws of the whites, grinning, bowing, they let their fingers stick to what they could touch.†   (source)
  • She was thin in those days, flat-chested, leggy; she seemed all limbs and neck, bodiless, spidery; thus far she conformed to the fashion, but the hair-cut and the hats of the period, and the blank stare and gape of the period, and the clownish dabs of rouge high on the cheekbones, could not reduce her to type.†   (source)
  • It is enough to say that the boy went on living among them, conforming to their habits, watching them so as to understand as much as he could, but unable to ask questions It was not only that their language had not got the words in which humans are interested—so that it would have been impossible to ask them whether they believed in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness—but also that it was dangerous to ask questions at all.†   (source)
  • He lay listening to the heavy breathing of the half-caste and wondered why he had not gone the same road as Padre Jose and conformed to the laws.†   (source)
  • She baffled me with her serious, reserved manner; she seemed to be acting in conformity with a code unknown to me, and I assumed that she regarded me as a "wrong one," a boy who for some reason did not have a home; I felt that in her mind she would push me to the outskirts of life and I was awkward and self-conscious in her presence.†   (source)
  • She was the oldest member of her church and it would have been unseemly if the only grandchild in her home could not be brought to these important services; she felt that if I were completely remiss in religious conformity it would cast doubt upon the stanchness of her faith, her capacity to convince and persuade, or merely upon her ability to apply the rod to my backside.†   (source)
  • That had been his nearest approach to success through conformity.†   (source)
  • There is more in the subject than mere conformity to a law of evolution.†   (source)
  • He had occasionally thought the counsel less honest than musical; but he gladly conformed to it now.†   (source)
  • If she chose to live in the world she must conform to its customs.†   (source)
  • It is yet deeper than conformity to things of earth alone.†   (source)
  • Conformity to the discipline of a small society had become almost his second nature.†   (source)
  • What has happened is quite natural, and in conformity with the law of reprisals.†   (source)
  • I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land.†   (source)
  • I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.†   (source)
  • And has he conformed to all that the letter specified?†   (source)
  • The American clergy were the first to perceive this truth, and to act in conformity with it.†   (source)
  • All this, too, was plausible, and in conformity with Indian character and customs.†   (source)
  • The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the practices of the convent.†   (source)
  • A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.†   (source)
  • She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur Jean," she conformed to it.†   (source)
  • The virtue in most request is conformity.†   (source)
  • Before long he admitted that he would like to flee back to the security of conformity, provided there was a decent and creditable way to return.†   (source)
  • Now, in the warm lamplit room, with all its ancient implications of conformity and order, she seemed infinitely farther away from him and more unapproachable.†   (source)
  • She belonged to the class of old New Yorkers who have always lived well, dressed expensively, and done little else; and to these inherited obligations Mrs. Peniston faithfully conformed.†   (source)
  • The forest on the whole held to the level, open character, but there were swales and stream-beds breaking up its regular conformity.†   (source)
  • Golo stopped for a moment and listened sadly to the little speech read aloud by my great-aunt, which he seemed perfectly to understand, for he modified his attitude with a docility not devoid of a degree of majesty, so as to conform to the indications given in the text; then he rode away at the same jerky trot.†   (source)
  • If you admit it (which we take for granted), do you intend, now that you are a millionaire, and do you not think it in conformity with justice, to indemnify Burdovsky?†   (source)
  • "We must conform!" she said mournfully.†   (source)
  • At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life—that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.†   (source)
  • But European society is not given to divorce: Countess Olenska thought she would be conforming to American ideas in asking for her freedom.†   (source)
  • We are at last going to make all the erstwhile chaotic spiritual activities of America really conform to the American ideal; we're going to make them as practical and supreme as the manufacture of cash-registers!†   (source)
  • The occasion rested heavily upon Marija's broad shoulders—it was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous voice, Marija was too eager to see that others conformed to the proprieties to consider them herself.†   (source)
  • There was, even in the most strictly conforming Gopher Prairie circles, a certain option as to collations.†   (source)
  • I'm going to tell you, because I believe—ah—that when a boy knows his difficulties he's better able to cope with them—to conform to what others expect of him."†   (source)
  • Convenience as regarded afternoon callers was the last thing to enter into the consideration of unselfish Mr and Mrs Clare; though the three sons were sufficiently in unison on this matter to wish that their parents would conform a little to modern notions.†   (source)
  • This sensitive boy would be very skilfully stamped into conformity by Lyman Cass and his sallow daughter; but did she detest the plan for this reason?†   (source)
  • Whereupon Cottard, at once conforming in his mind to the literal interpretation of what Swann was saying, decided that invitations from M. Grevy were very little sought after, were sent out, in fact, into the highways and hedge-rows.†   (source)
  • Then if that don't work, the G. C. L. can finally send a little delegation around to inform folks that get too flip that they got to conform to decent standards and quit shooting off their mouths so free.†   (source)
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