Sentence examples for resist conformity from inspiring English sources

They recognize that his urge to resist conformity is often greater than his urge to be understood.

She hated the public school system.' His baby-boomer parents' desire to resist conformity led to a strange kind of rebellion: Stevens became a devout Christian.

I'm not sure who will be wearing the long, priestly black skirts and strict jackets with corset lacing that Yohji Yamamoto sent forth at a Parisian lycée (perhaps an advanced human male whose desires resist conformity to any doctrinaire assignment of sexual roles).

You'd think her set would be polished to perfection by now; instead, it's a disjointed thing, its lack of cohesion suggesting a singer admirably determined to resist conformity, but also uncertain as to the kind of singer she wants to be.

They resisted conformity and demonstrated a willingness to take risks.

Tall and lanky, with a voice that occasionally cracks and a forelock that resists conformity.

As Julien Benda argued in La Trahison des Clercs, democracy and civilisation depend on intellectuals resisting conformity and power.

Regarding Shakespeare: "He a rapper?" Of course, it doesn't help that Paul refers to our greatest bearer of words as "Sir Willie Shakes," though it does expose one of the ways he resists conformity (at least in the early going): He moves between registers of expression that make it hard for us to get a lock on who he is.

Missing from Zimbardo's account is any reference to the individual factors that interact with such situational ones that make one person conform to socially sanctioned group violence, and make another person resist the conformity bias and stand up for what he or she thinks is right.

Like the Lubyanka prison in Moscow during the Soviet period, or the Prinz Albrecht Strasse headquarters of the Gestapo in Nazi-era Berlin, Tehran's Evin Prison is indelibly linked with the most gruesome abuses of human rights, involving Iranian dissidents foolhardy enough to resist ideological conformity by thinking and acting for themselves.

Missing from Zimbardo's account is any reference to the individual factors that interact with such situational ones that make one person conform to socially sanctioned group violence, and make another person -- in the very same situation -- resist the conformity bias and stand up for what he or she thinks is right.