Lobo Antunes's contrapuntal narrative functions as a rejoinder to the Fascist cult of corporatism, in which Salazar's state assumed that its citizens, equalized by conformity, became indistinguishable from one another.
Since its founding, in 2000, by Alexandre Cammas and Emmanuel Rubin, two gastronomic journalists exasperated by the conformity and conservatism of French food culture, Le Fooding has published, from its Right Bank offices, a handsome, atypically larksome, and unusually honest annual encyclopedia of the restaurants and bistros of both Paris and the provinces.
Pondering what this vision might mean, he finally understood that by God's providence he would be made like to the crucified Christ not by a bodily martyrdom but by conformity in mind and heart.
Identifying the Behnisch style is not easy, as the work covered a wide range and changed quickly, but it was always experimental and forward-looking, and never hampered by conscious conformity to a contrived manner.
Writer-director Ford finely details the invisibility of gay life in post-War America, portraying a man who lives in a glass house but cannot be seen much less understood in a 1950s culture defined by conformity and gripped by fear.
During that time, Abercrombie thrived by exalting conformity.
He felt bored there, constrained by dull conformity; a vision of fierce desert freedom had come over him.
Big Brother may have stifled dissent by forcing conformity on his frightened subjects, but his trespasses were predictable and manageable.
The public face of the era was represented by satisfied conformity: Ozzie and Harriet, tract houses, drive-ins, television and President Eisenhower.
But, though they come in nine configurations, according to the department, some connoisseurs of the old newsstands are offended by their conformity.
