Indeed, over the past half century, there has been an endless flow of novels, movies, anti-sprawl tracts, essays and pop songs all lamenting the shallow conformity of suburban life.
I did not like the conformity of Japanese life and, though I did not have any bad feelings against my parents, the whole history of the family felt like a big weight.I felt like I had to succumb to that and become a little particle in their big family and die spiritually.
It also legitimated the new rulers' persecution of political dissidents, the enforced conformity of public life (Gleichschaltung), the elimination of parliamentary democracy, and general anti-Semitic measures.
In stark contrast are the conformities of school life, and the fates of their individual students, emphasized by Westmeier's impressive cross-cutting between close-ups and long shots.
In it, he builds his argument against the bland conformity of contemporary Australian life.
Like the inner child, the authentic self is depicted as not yet corrupted by the pressures, competitiveness, and conformity of modern public life.
Egypt, like much of the Arab world, demands conformity in many corners of life.
Saudi online debates are in sharp contrast to the conformity of many elements of life in a conservative Islamic society.
Choices are often characterized as a rational response to uncertainty and/or as conformity to the prescribed 'sequencing' of life course events.
Same-sex hand-holding days, "Vagina Monologues" performances, diversity training seminars, minority support groups, "no means no" dating rules, textbooks purified of gender, racial or class stereotypes -- for all their good intentions, these manifestations of enforced tolerance can create a stultifying air of conformity in college life.
