social code
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He’s studied anxiety with the intensity of a scholar and now, as a director, he pairs that persona with a blunt oversharer who smashes every social code.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
But with each passing decade, his vision of a rigidly enforced social code and the dangers of a mob mentality have come to seem more and more prescient.
From Fox News ● Mar. 20, 2020
It’s the timeworn social code of the Old Boys’ network, in part.
From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2018
In moments like these, it’s easy — too easy — to dismiss Hannah for, among other infractions of the social code, egocentrism run amok.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2014
It was an important rule in their social code to appear as strangers in-doors, although they would wait for each other outside, and compare lists.
From A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Laurence Hutton
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