Sentence examples for trying to conform from inspiring English sources

He discovered it was futile trying to conform to the role of a prototypical leadoff hitter.

Instead of misfits trying to conform, we have conformists trying to look rebellious.

"It was all Terence Rattigan and Noël Coward and the well-made play at that time, and Osborne was trying to conform to those conventions," Mr. Aula said.

Mr. Selves, for example, spends much of his time dealing with state and federal governments on financial issues and trying to conform to new rules and legislation in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.

But what the camera cannot help recording is something else, or something different, a real girl having an awkward time of it trying to conform to the artist's instructions.

Claren said he always knew he was not a girl, but spent years of his childhood trying to conform to gender norms and the expectations of his church and parents.

His environment had taught him to try to conform.

Nor is it a good idea to try to conform to what we imagine will sell.

"The fact of the matter is," she writes, "I absolutely do try to conform to normal standards of beauty.

She embraced golf in part to try to conform, somewhat, to America's expectations of how a female athlete should look and act in the 1930s.

Or, as Salter himself says of Francis Bacon, he never "tried to conform to any idea of the artist, which allowed him to become a greater one".