Sentence examples for rigid conformity to from inspiring English sources

The Puritans, for example, who fled religious persecution in England in the 17th century, enforced rigid conformity to church ideas among settlers in the American colonies.

He was also inspired by such younger poets as WD Snodgrass, William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg, who motivated him to relax the rigid conformity to traditional metre and rhyme that characterised his early poetry.

Insecurity has the opposite effect, stimulating an Authoritarian Reflex in which people close ranks behind strong leaders, with strong in-group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and rigid conformity to group norms.

The "4D man" report pointed to an individual interpretation of man – masculinity with a million dimensions, if you will – rather than a rigid conformity to one simplistic typology or another in terms of outlook, orientation or choice of car, coffee or coat.

By so doing, we've established a "rigid conformity to lawn and shrubbery that ignored the unique flora, fauna, and climates of the American continent". Perhaps the North County gardens of the future will be designed with that uniqueness in mind.

The play makes this point as its unsettling conflicts are born out of the characters' rigid conformity to normative ideals, causing them to uphold a brittle, ultimately destructive, "false" sense of self: e.g., as unquestionably "straight" men by day and as women with entirely different biographies by night.

Thereafter he imposed strict conformity to Protestant ceremony and doctrine.

"Why not?" How cavalier of Johnson, who seems to have finally released himself from rigid conformity long enough to enjoy his status as Nascar's premier driver.

For a moment it seemed that Daly might even be reconsidering his commitment to a rigid conformity between civil law and Catholic teaching.

It is difficult for me to point fingers at teenagers who, dressed up as "Indians" for Thanksgiving when they were five by their parents and teachers, are now expected to understand the complex meanings behind the hipster headdress they choose to rock to signify their escape from the rigid conformity of suburbia.

"Over time, a rigid conformity was demanded of all artists, and painting, sculpture and graphic arts became tools to illustrate political ideology," Ms. Oldknow said.