| Submission to authority, self-abnegation and conformism had led the Japanese to disaster. |
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| The reaction against the neo-brutalism of the 1960s and 1970s was to embrace safe conformism instead. |
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| The progressive authors of much of America's patriotic iconography rejected blind nationalism, militaristic drumbeating and sheeplike conformism. |
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| Authentic existence is a breaking free from the conformism and conventions of the everyday that we are thrown into. |
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| There's a terrible conformism, a desire above all to have the names of the fashionable directors on the tip of one's tongue. |
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| They seek to play on the public mood of fear and mistrust to demand that we change our lifestyles to fit the new conformism. |
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| If you have an ardent desire for the Lord you will steer clear of the mediocrity and conformism so widespread in our society. |
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| It represents the necessary development, a diversion from the conformism of the current era. |
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| As they grow up, their impulse to try new things is discouraged as conformism sets in. |
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| The persistence of all these differences is a tribute to an indomitably unbiddable spirit and may even be a useful metaphor against conformism in other fields too. |
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| It's one of those untransportable American plays that, in rejecting social conformism and political correctness, ends up celebrating anything dysfunctional. |
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| They may include religion, spirituality, fashion, eroticism, conformism, or subcultural identification. |
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| The original flower children, he explains, wanted to swap the conformism of the 1950s for spiritual enlightenment. |
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| Of course we need to protect this movement from any trends to standardisation, to a position of cultural, political and economic conformism. |
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| A retreat into the apparently reassuring comforts of an exclusive community may lead to a stifling conformism. |
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| One facet of France is depressing, and that's the side of extreme patriotism, conformism and moral order. |
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| It is not so much limits on freedom as conformism that threatens press pluralism in Italy. |
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| There is an appalling and stultifying conformism in Australian politico-intellectual life, such that publications which do not conform are condemned and vilified. |
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| Consumption, which was originally just a simple need to acquire essential goods, seems to have become a kind of recognition, a type of conformism. |
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| The borrowings or hybrid forms to which globalization gives rise can turn out to be little more than stereotypes, just as international markets for indigenous 'exotic' art can function as venues rewarding artistic conformism. |
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| Recently, however, such ideological conformism has been disappearing. |
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| Europe is the framework for intervention of a policy of cultural diversity and of counter offensive to industries of uniformism and conformism which deaden people's mind. |
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| Around the world, women and girls suffer the harmful and life-threatening effects of traditional and cultural practices that continue under the guise of cultural and social conformism and religious beliefs. |
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| The story did make to the Indian media, despite its conformism to the official line when it comes to Pakistan. |
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| Success is exhilarating, but it creates a risk of conformism and complacency. |
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| Obtrusive cleanliness and an overly obsessive neurotic conformism made him an anarchist. |
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| She was a wonderful colleague who opposed conformism and fought for all noble causes, bringing passion to her work and a radiant smile which you all knew. |
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| Without the Mass and pastoral care, yeomen, artisans and husbandmen fell into conformism. |
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| He called out the conformism hiding in the pose of rugged individuality. |
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| On the other hand, it can symbolize a new and threatening conformism, with elected governments bowing to market-driven forces as if these latter were fated to rule humanity. |
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| It is such hypocrisy, such conformism, ladies and gentlemen! |
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| The virtues of conformism and patriotism, and national myths of military power and glory blessed by god and nature, pervade the daily rituals of family, church and neighbourhood. |
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| It is a struggle against cowardice and conformism, and against everyone who would crush both truth and imagination into a cramped coffin of orthodoxy. |
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| The smallness of the country, in which everyone knows everyone, admittedly is oppressive and tends to foster the conformism that discourages openness and tolerance. |
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| As John Harley has shown, it is probable that Byrd's parental family were Protestants, though whether by deeply felt conviction or nominal conformism is not clear. |
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