Sentence examples for against conformism from inspiring English sources
He holds out against conformism.
"It was writing that rebelled against conformism".
Against conformism, homogeneity, and gentrification of all life into a new world order, Benjamin made the word his sword.
These are people whose lives have the power to medicate us against conformism, mediocrity, and the almost unavoidable despair of human existence.
Alan Sillitoe adapted the first from his own novel, the second from his own short story, and in each case its young protagonist announces in an introductory voiceover that he is in rebellion against conformism and/or the middle-class status quo.
Watch Dogs warns against conformism and mass technological connectivity – it's a story of hackers, breaking the system down from within.
In an article entitled Plea Against Academic Conformism, a group of academics calling themselves "Christiane Schulte and friends" say they had wanted to instigate "a debate on why dedicated social criticism has become such a rarity in the humanities".
The essay was, at least for me, the most appropriate form to protest against human conformism, lies, killings, national and ethnic homogenization of the society (e.g. fascization of society), against trivialization and standardization of culture, and so on and so forth.
From John Milton's polemics against the Presbyterian attempts to enforce Calvinist censorship on the England of the 1640s, via John Stuart Mill's rebellion against the conformism of the Victorians, to Salman Rushdie's argument with the Islamists, the urge to defend and expand freedom of speech has been created by the threats of its enemies What applies to great writers applies to everyone else.
It is a struggle against cowardice and conformism, and against everyone who would crush both truth and imagination into a cramped coffin of orthodoxy.
Like the other recent ultraviolent films from Japan -- including Mr. Miike's own "Audition" and Katsuhito Ishii's recent "Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl" -- "Ichi the Killer" is pitched as a protest against the rampant conformism of Japanese society.
