conformity

It can feel as if we are moving toward a similar aesthetic conformity in our own world.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026

Freed from the shackles of girl group conformity, Jade Thirlwall threw everything, including the kitchen sink, at her solo debut.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

The film is a reminder that conformity is never compulsory, and that putting yourself out there is the only way to find out who’s ready to catch you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

In some corners of the profession, ideological conformity is more valued than psychological insight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

San Bernardino in 1948 supplied the nation with a new yin and yang, new models of conformity and rebellion.

From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser

Director Milos Forman was shaped by European sensibilities but his films were shrewd and intimate portraits of the yearnings, transgressions, politics, sexual fascinations, rebelliousness and complicated conformities that soothed, rattled and challenged the American spirit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018

In particular, Garnett thoroughly scorned “commercialism, the insularity of the English, their demand that literature should merely endorse prevailing social norms and conformities, the expectation of ‘healthy optimism’ and a happy ending.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018

“Our contexts are not the same, our struggles are not the same, and so our rebellions and complacencies and conformities and compromises cannot be compared.”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2017

The new suburbs spread out, the old traditions were gone and novel conformities improvised there, a new orthodoxy for the quietly desperate.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2012

Concerning their moralities, and conformities to the Laws of the Road and of the Universe, there will much remain to be argued by pamphleteers and others.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle