conformity

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

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 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

In some corners of the profession, ideological conformity is more valued than psychological insight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

For these seekers after truth, “the woods” became, like “the greenwood” in Merrie England, the place where an individual could truly savour the mysteries of life, free from the restricting conformities of church and state.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2017

“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

It was all the more exasperating to see and hear Hinze's reception of her well-bred conformities.

From Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot