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The sparks of the powerful leader Leia will grow up to be are here: independent, unconforming, defiant but loyal.

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Dellarobia’s 5-year-old son, Preston, is the child with a future that his mother had hoped for herself: not only beloved but encouraged for his endearingly dweeby and scholarly ways, “set apart by a devotion to his own pursuits that was brave and unconforming.”

In discussing the first of these objections we found that probably both of them might be referred to a common origin; for examination of precisely what is meant by a prig revealed that he is a person whose goodness is so downright, so unconforming and so reduced that it makes the mass of us uncomfortable.

"No, Clytie; but our boy has been to college and it has left him rather un—unconforming in some little matters—some details—doubtless his doctrine is sound at core."

At the blockhouse a guard was mounted—doubtless a watchful and stanch lookout, but unconforming to military methods, for he sang, to speed the time, a metrical psalm of David's; the awkward collocation of the words of this version would forever distort the royal poet's meaning if he had no other vehicle of his inspiration.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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