conformity

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

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026

Warsh, a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011, has argued for more than a decade that the Fed’s forecasts breed conformity and its data are stale by the time policymakers see them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

A sport cannot function seriously on a world scale without such conformity, and a World Cup - launched in 1963 and contested every four years since - needed that.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 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

Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway?—diversity is the word.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

She continued all her outward conformities except that after a time she ceased to communicate; and in September she went away to Newnham.

From Soul of a Bishop by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells