Sentence examples for refuses to conform from inspiring English sources

But is it really so bad that Lydia refuses to conform to the strict and suffocating conventions of female propriety?

Only the hero retains his human shape, climactically crying "Woe betide the man who refuses to conform".

Lydia could be described as a proto-feminist, as she refuses to conform to the protocols of courtship behaviour.

But to the Greeks who elected him and his new admirers elsewhere, he has become an instant left-wing pin-up who refuses to conform.

"Artful" is a difficult, demanding book, contrarian in nature, a meditation on time that sidesteps the linear, a disquisition on form that refuses to conform.

The Booker Prize is the only august literary institution that routinely manages to shock; year after year, its shortlist refuses to conform to popular notions of "good" books.

It refused to conform to clothing stereotypes.

Britain's feral youths are brutishly and selfishly refusing to conform to stereotype.

Both Pakistan and his daughter confound him; they refuse to conform to his notions of reasonableness.

I celebrated Malcolm McLaren's life by refusing to conform to instructions, yeah?

It was a political statement – he refused to conform to social standards of personal appearance.