And there's a tyranny of freedom, too, so that nonconformism becomes the new conformity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say Farewell To Pin Curls] Reference

Like Taiwan, my homeland has its own conformist culture, a conformist culture of nonconformism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

You're right, we should all be beret-wearing cineastes who love Francois Truffaut and are all about nonconformism.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Clips From The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus | /Film] Reference

Three cheers for your innovation, your visionary nonconformism, and, yes, your spunk. neophyte commented at 4:23 PM~.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferule & Fescue] Reference

He has just conformed to our conformist culture of nonconformism by purchasing an expensive toy that he has to assemble himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Chairman of the Czechoslovakian Writers 'Association, but was deposed by the Husák regime which however, gradually seems to have accepted his nonconformism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature 1984 - Press Release] Reference

Perhaps there are a few rare exceptions for e e cummings and a few other people who are trying to make a statement with their nonconformism, but they are quite rare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » e e cummings Goes to Court:] Reference

One interesting thing about this conformist culture of nonconformism in the west is that, like the conformist culture of conformism in Chinese society, it is an arms race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

It knows our people were used to bad governments and have a conditioned reflex against the word "government" (few words indistinct) that is easy to exploit, and our people have a nonconformism that is easy to exploit.    From Wordnik.com.  [AT HAVANA LABOR RALLY] Reference

I loved the air of freedom, of nonconformism, that reigns over the economic capital of this state about which they said, during the time of the great strikes after World War I, "There are forty-seven states in the United States, plus the Soviet of Washington.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Trip: Part II] Reference

In every cool hobby, the arms race is constantly evolving new forms of conformist nonconformism that all must attempt, just as the conformist culture of conformism is constantly evolving new status tokens that all must acquire – like imported wines or western fashions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

On his return he moved to London to take a degree in sociology at the London School of Economics – "I admired its history of nonconformism, the way it said 'Fuck the critics' and honoured people such as HG Wells, Nelson Mandela and Wole Soyinka long before anyone else did.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A life in writing: Jack Higgins] Reference

Of course in the presence of a beautiful woman I conformed to my conformist culture of nonconformism programming faster than you can blurt out evolutionary psychology: I told her I didn't know much about wine but I drink Riesling because I liked the taste, thus displaying my awesome grasp of the Authentic Experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Edgar Hoover, the FBI's first and most infamous director, "the United States was confronted with 'a new style in conspiracy--conspiracy that is extremely subtle and devious and hence difficult to understand... a conspiracy reflected by questionable moods and attitudes, by unrestrained individualism, by nonconformism in dress and speech, even by obscene language, rather than by formal membership in specific organizations.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [John W. Whitehead: The FBI: Going Rogue] Reference

This draconian Calvinistic action was deemed appropriate, but I think it smacks of the worst kind of Yorkshire nonconformism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A View from Middle England by Arden Forester] Reference

The actor is at his unconditional best, lending unrestrained brilliance, puckish nonconformism and persuasive madness to the actor he portrays.    From Wordnik.com.  [rediff.com] Reference

Virulence, nonconformism, plain rebelliousness, and discontent are just so many more products on the capitalist market; they are consumer goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [videos.antville.org] Reference

"Where's the bright line between nonconformism and madness?" asks David R. Evans, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Buena Vista University and contributor to David Gerber observes in an article on the Blind Veterans Association, "positive stereotypes can be as big a burden as negative ones.".    From Wordnik.com.  [History News Network] Reference