Sentence examples for attempts to conform from inspiring English sources
It is unsettling to examine the futility of it all: women's search for signs of genuine freedom and self-worth, men's wrongheaded attempts to conform to false values.
Strong's embroiled trio consists of Ray Shepard, a rich architect with midlife ennui to burn; his wife, Evelyn, a rough-hewn former circus performer who maddens herself with attempts to conform to Ray's WASPy milieu; and Ingrid, a punk-rock-loving 16-year-old detective-novel enthusiast and captive of a local boarding school, whom the pair agree to baby-sit for the summer.
After this experience, Kit attempts to conform to the society she sees around her; she sees a commercial for a temporary hiring agency, applies and lands a position in a PR firm.
For a time after the creation of the Chinese communist state in 1949, Mao Zedong attempted to conform to the Stalinist model of "building socialism".
A July 2012 working paper by the Rock Center for Corporate Governance found that revisions made by companies to their compensation programs in an attempt to conform to guidelines issued by proxy advisory firms actually produced a net cost to shareholders.
3.42am BST Lunchtime summary I'm going to grab this slightly quiet minute (if you ignore clanging division bells) in a concerted attempt to conform with the strictures of best live blogging practice for the first time this week.
She attempted to conform her clothing to the requirements of local decency, but there was always something wrong — some rule she had broken that nobody had told her of, some violation so subtle she could not detect it.
Actually, an alternative theory might be that these individuals are either genetically or environmentally predisposed to being single, and the observations based on speed dating or personal ads may be an attempt to conform to societal mores and not mere narcissism (pickiness).
While the amateur ideal was pursued by many Japanese bunjin, the most remarkable of the ink monochrome or ink and light colour works were created by artists who, although generally attempting to conform to a bunjin lifestyle, were actually professionals in that they supported themselves by producing and selling their painting, poetry, and calligraphy.
