nonconformity
Example Sentences
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Cultural pessimism and an obsession with culture in general: This relates to fascism’s false nostalgia and its discomfort with the pluralism and nonconformity of liberal society.
From Salon
He was only a few months into his job as a custody deputy at the downtown jail in 2009 when he learned the price of nonconformity.
From Los Angeles Times
The filmmakers were aiming to call out the guardians of rigidity who see nonconformity as arrogance, regardless of whether it is or not.
From New York Times
But she stood apart in her adamant nonconformity.
From New York Times
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
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