Sentence examples for era of conformity from inspiring English sources

If the 1950's were the era of conformity and repression in America, no one told O'Hara and LeSueur, or they chose not to hear the news.

The rational-creative child, the playful, unruly child — these were eclipsed by the healthy child, who would be more amenable to a new era of conformity in the 1950s.

The 1950s in America are widely regarded as an era of dull conformity.

But then the few people pushed to radical gestures in our own era of unparalleled conformity and political passivity are more likely to be scorned than admired.

In "an era of ideological conformity [he] had the courage to tell people to think for themselves, and like Nelson Mandela in South Africa brought healing to Spain".

Where, in the latter places, they provide proof of the life of the imagination and the endurance of fancy under grim circumstances, here the prevalence of muted tones and uniform outfits (and I'm not even referring to the actual brown uniforms of soldiers that are seen in one shot) evoke an era of greater public conformity.

He had survived the advent of rock'n'roll, which he condemned as "ugly, degenerate, vicious, imbecilic", but the Beatles and their aftermath turned the King of Ring A Ding Ding into an ossified relic of an era "mired in a fog of conformity and nuclear fear", as Kaplan puts it.

We came of age in the post-WWII era of complacency, consumerism, and conformity.

Set in 1692 during the Salem witch trials, The Crucible is an examination of contemporary events in American politics during the era of fear and desire for conformity brought on by Sen. Joseph McCarthy's sensational allegations of communist subversion in high places.

The decade of the 1950's -- often thought of as a time of conformity, conservatism and cold war saber rattling -- is generally not considered the most visually exciting American era.

Still living in a Romantic era, we expect our artists to be rebels on whom we can project our longings for freedom without abandoning the safety of conformity.