My Own Way is a decent record, but erroneously titled: the sheen given by the producers, J-Remy and Alan Sampson, to songs such as January's top 20 hit Ride It and the Billie Jean-esque Maybe strip away all that hard-won individuality.
(As much as the Moonies ever have, Shaker communities worked hard to exterminate individuality: people dined together, slept together, and even, in Hancock, were buried together, in a single common grave marked "Shakers").
Obama described Eastwood's films as "essays in individuality, hard truths and the essence of what it means to be American".
Moreover, these days plenty of fragrance lovers want to express their individuality with hard-to-find scents, Ms. O'Neill said.
Composer and lyricist Jay Kuo and book writers Marc Acito and Lorenzo Thione are striving so hard for stirring nobility that individuality or particular characterization falls by the wayside.
It would be easy to laugh too about the more established middle classes in Tunbridge Wells, striving for individuality and trying so hard not to be seen to be trying too hard.
His luscious tone and authentic bop sensibility bespeak an era when individuality was a hard-won prize.
"The military aspect — the discipline, the straight lines, doing everything at the same time, the lack of individuality — can be harder to accept as you get older".
The answer, I think, is the autonomy and dignity inherent in our individuality -- in making hard decisions for ourselves and determining our own destinies.
In a community that values cohesiveness and rejects individuality, it's a hard, distressing thing to become an adult.
