nonconformity
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This is the beginning of “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Melville’s absurdist tale of work, agency and nonconformity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
His fictional character, a hyperactive, bow-tied man-child, provided subversive messages about nonconformity in films such as “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and his classic Saturday morning TV show, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.”
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2025
For the target, as “Fellow Travelers” intuits, isn’t queerness, or racial equality, or anti-capitalism per se, but nonconformity of any sort, which power seeks to stamp out for its own preservation.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023
Both silly and subversive and championing nonconformity, the Pee-wee universe was a trippy place, populated by things such as a talking armchair and a friendly pterodactyl.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2023
Mica Area High School—MAHS—was not exactly a hotbed of nonconformity.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
Vocabulary lists containing nonconformity
100 SAT Words Beginning with "N"
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 1
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This Week In Culture, July 18–24, 2020
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