Thus the shutters came down against "occasional conformity" that had previously prevailed throughout the land.
Yet at the same time, the town itself is a vision of suburban conformity that would look at home in Orange County, Calif.
While Japan is known globally as a paragon of civility and politeness, it has traditionally demanded a level of conformity that excludes those with physical and mental disabilities.
But the original Babbitt is, by the novel's end, a victim as well as an embodiment of the cautiousness and conformity that surrounds him.
It was the boxy family hauler aimed at harried soccer moms, a symbol of the soul-crushing conformity that was the price Americans paid for suburban comfort.
The proposal for "traditional-style" pastel houses, set in neat little rows on uniform lots, is a model of conformity that attacks the idea of the city as a place where competing values coexist.
Does The Incredibles hint that parents should strain against the conformity that might have turned them into identi-dads and mums by letting their offspring in on the secret of their younger selves?
If you're worried about this laissez-faire behavior from people wielding chainsaws and guns, know that, for Sachs's team, transparency is paired with a type of no-nonsense conformity that is part NASA, part North Korea.
It's surely the best depiction of teenage eccentricity since "Rushmore," and its incisive satire of the boredom and conformity that rule our thrill-seeking, individualistic land, and also its question-mark ending, reminded me of "The Graduate".
Or, it could mark a long retreat into the kind of over-the-top stylistic conformity that will appeal only to his most adolescent-minded fans, of which there are many.
Of course, there's a darker side, too the arresting sight of all seven of the highest-ranking officials in China wearing the jacket is a reminder of the conformity that is expected within an authoritarian system.
