Rigorous theology helps people avoid mindless conformity.
We need to learn to navigate the treacherous maelstroms of despair, to recognize the self-absorption of demonic states, to veer away from prudence and vanity, and to avoid mere conformity to social mores.
The Lego Movie is a pop culture-fuelled tale of an evil corporate behemoth named Lord Business who forces everyone in the Lego universe to "follow the instructions" and avoid non-conformity of all types.
Here, traditional timidity becomes more sinister: a mid-Victorian bourgeois conformity that Alice learns to avoid.
Leaders should aim to avoid creating a community that is culturally homogenous and conformity-based.
That convention likewise provides reason for conformity only given an appropriate desire: namely, desire to avoid a collision.
Patients were asked to allow their nominal registration at their national center, in conformity with the national legislation for data privacy to avoid double registration and to facilitate follow-up.
Trees from the barracks site have been left in their original state, breaking up the view and thus avoiding the two-storey conformity of your average housing estate.
The anonymity of the panel members, made possible by online computer communication, avoided issues of group conformity and prevented influences of dominant personalities, prestige and politics.
Canada wanted the words "in conformity with human rights and fundamental freedoms" linked to health care to avoid condoning practices like female genital mutilation.
Be that as it may, Mr. Lang and Mr. Jacobs, two of the biggest names, choose to avoid the tents, preferring more personal show sites to distance themselves from the hoopla and conformity in Bryant Park.
