Underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She's not what I'd call a conformist, and she doesn't treat her humans the way most everyone else does. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvenbane]
Bandy about the word "conformist" like you're being paid for each usage. From Wordnik.com. [hamletwildie Diary Entry] Reference
The children, in fact, seem to have moved from one kind of conformist society to another. From Wordnik.com. [An Emotional Moonscape] Reference
It kills me when people ramble on about how "conformist". From Wordnik.com. [Japundit - Published news] Reference
The culture was paralyzingly closed and conformist. From Wordnik.com. [America's Errant Empires] Reference
"The house is for a non-conformist," Ms. Goode said. From Wordnik.com. [Not for Conformists] Reference
John Bunyan (1628-1688) was a Puritan non-conformist. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
"A non-conformist within a group of non-conformists!". From Wordnik.com. [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference
Its politics were Whig and its theology Non-conformist. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
Even his commute reflected this non-conformist attitude. From Wordnik.com. [Inder Sidhu: Profiles in Doing Both: Can David Cameron Cut Deficits and Stimulate Growth?] Reference
The question is whether it's going to be too conformist. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2004] Reference
I'm the former conformist who does whatever pleases you. From Wordnik.com. [babycartercl Diary Entry] Reference
We've been too conformist, too complacent and too cowardly. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2008] Reference
Liberalism of Non-conformist Wales, and to a lesser degree of. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference
Am I a sellout, a conformist, just maturing, being over-dramatic?. From Wordnik.com. [Read It!] Reference
Conflict with a parent can also offset a firstborn's conformist ways. From Wordnik.com. [First Born, Later Born] Reference
He knows too of my disdain for the modern idealism of conformist notions. From Wordnik.com. [words flung at me in the dark] Reference
If it werent for my upbringing Id be a feminist and total non conformist. From Wordnik.com. [dailycomic Diary Entry] Reference
I mean what -- you know, this is not non-conformist behavior any more, is it?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2006] Reference
They might have to be more conformist because of that, but so is everyone else. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Maury Maverick, October 27, 1975. Interview A-0323. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
I had the typical ultra-predictable, programmed, conformist attitude of rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference
He was, he says, a “conformist at the time, and she helped me a lot to change.”. From Wordnik.com. [Death by Design] Reference
The sympathy, realism, and imagination of art are antagonistic to conformist morality. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
But it doesn't mean that we should become some kind of blind-idiot-conformist-follower. From Wordnik.com. [The 12-Step Buddhist: The Dalai Lama Is My Higher Power] Reference
In many ways it was a conformist, cruel paranoid culture with bad music (except for the blues). From Wordnik.com. [The Spiritual State: Deep Gidget] Reference
There is already an abundance of conformist publications around, so I gladly free myself from yours. From Wordnik.com. [Silvio's Swan Song] Reference
The boys were told to shed their conformist cynicism, to fight the good fight, wherever evil lurked. From Wordnik.com. [THE WASP'S NEST] Reference
Anyway, all of the "non-conformists" are conforming to the stereotypical non-conformist image anyway. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
"When I started the project in 1993, I found the music in Norway extremely conformist," says Wesseltoft. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Gets Rhythm] Reference
They have remained the bullying, tactless, blindly conformist bunch of goons that they have always been. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Shuster: Putin-jugend: The Kremlin continues shaping a group-think generation] Reference
"Dad was a major-league conformist who believed in the path to success," recalls Dean's younger brother Jim. From Wordnik.com. [THE WASP'S NEST] Reference
We have raised a generation of willing, conformist slaves, not the minds that once flourished in Bohemia. —. From Wordnik.com. [Hitch Bitch: Torture and Conformity: Vanity Fair] Reference
It's importance derives from its status as a badge for bien pensants who want to shut down non-conformist speech. From Wordnik.com. [UNCoRRELATED] Reference
Non-conformist of various types, even if we do not call up any remnants of the worshippers of Jupiter or of Woden. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
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