How To Use Conformist In A Sentence
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It was the first Nonconformist chapel in the area.
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But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
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After graduating, he decides to become a complete conformist in order to deflect any future criticism, much to the horror of his artsy parents.
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Norms use the clubs of stigma and shame to punish deviants, nonconformists, and radicals.
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In Britain many were based on parish churches or, especially, Nonconformist chapels; the celebrated Huddersfield Choral Society was founded in 1836.
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underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist
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I believe British society is more conformist than it has been for 20 years.
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The nonconformist Bethel and Seion chapels had originally entered into association with the Welsh Presbyterian Union of the United States, but they joined the United Church of Canada in 1933 and after 1936 Welsh services ceased.
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Clashes between conformists and Puritans resulted in the suppression of the organized Presbyterian wing of Puritanism by 1591, but the impact of Puritans on the Church at a local level remained enormous.
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As long as a pupil is quiet, inconspicuous and conformist, everything is fine.
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But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
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It was unable to insert a clause in the Imperial Abolition Act allowing nonconformist ministers to solemnize marriages, as it was custom for colonial laws to follow rather than precede those in the metropolitan society.
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Polls suggest that, in these increasingly health-obsessed and conformist times, public opinion might also now be amenable.
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Welsh nationalism was about neither land nor Home Rule but was founded on the Nonconformist campaign to disestablish the Anglican Church, which was maintained by the payment of tithes.
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The psychologist Carl Rogers laments the fact that "we tend to turn out conformists, stereotypes, individuals whose education is 'completed, ' rather than freely creative and original thinkers.
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Matthew Henry (1662-1714), "nonconformist" Presbyterian minister in England, and author of
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Gradually their nonconformist business elites improved public health and evolved traditions of voluntary activity, local pride and artistic patronage.
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His grating voice, frameless spectacles, faded suits and short, stringy hair all broke with the conformist protest style.
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Ever a non-conformist to the point of being termed an iconoclast in thought and approach, he was distinctly different and differently distinctive.
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He is known for his non-conformist attitude in every field in which he has proven himself, be it politics, theatre or the legal profession.
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Apparently, the way to be coolly nonconformist is strict conformity to a nonconformist trope?
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Confirmation branded its confirmands on their foreheads with the mark of episcopacy, and it was an in-your-face gesture to nonconformists and to others who held a low view of the episcopal office.
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But what would our world be without these non-conformists who perform unspoken deeds in the dead of night?
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Persecuting Nonconformists could have a knock-on effect in a community, hitting those who were loyal to the established Church.
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America wasn't built by conformists, but by mutineers; we're a big brawling, boisterous, bucking people, and now is our time!
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Now, one of the side-effects of how Mennonite and Amish culture works, is that nonconformists/those who are “too curious” end up eventually being completely shunned and ostracized from the entire community.
Blocking the information highway
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But sometime in the past 40 years, Western society decided that deferential, ordered and conformist societies cramped creativity and personal expression.
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The Western system functions by allowing small islands of dissent in an overwhelming sea of conformist propaganda.
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Avoiding suspicion often meant embracing, at least outwardly, a conservative and conformist attitude.
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As a dedicated contrarian I'm always uneasy with the way in which people, who are as individuals rational and intelligent, can be transformed into scarily conformist drones.
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Our children's creativity is being beaten down by the conformist educational system.
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In the last couple of years, though, a crop of novels has appeared which, like these two classics, combine pleasure with politics, and carefully reinforce the prejudices of nonconformists everywhere.
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The era ended in reaction: evangelical, political, romantic, conformist.
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There became room for younger, different, mainly nonconformist leaders to assert themselves, not necessarily by parliamentary means.
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I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.
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A devout Calvinist Methodist and strict advocate of temperance, Davies became a patron of Nonconformist and other charitable and educational causes.
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They can be described as visionaries, revolutionaries, radicals, liberals, nonconformists, outsiders, insurgents, prophets, pathfinders.
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But the Korean company thinks the Genesis will attract a class of "nonconformist" consumers who want luxury cars but are not concerned about the brand they drive, said John Krafcik, vice president of product development.
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Instead, the new campaign is all about touchy-feely dads competing in school sports days and non-conformist, caring soldiers.
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This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church.
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They can be described as visionaries, revolutionaries, radicals, liberals, nonconformists, outsiders, insurgents, prophets, pathfinders.
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Is this because these spiritual guides of our race are too poor or too over-worked to serve his purpose, or do we perhaps, -- in this regrettable "lacuna" -- stumble upon one of the little smiling prejudices of our great conformist?
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Previously, many people were passive, conformist churchgoers, experiencing church as a television without a remote control.
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Given the peculiarities of the Nazi state and the lack of an active nonconformist tradition, there could be no unified mass resistance movement in Germany.
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The, Church of England, it said, is like Christ crucified between two thieves, Papists on one side and Nonconformist sectarians on the other.
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Arthur Newsholme, Newman's older colleague, had his origins in a similar nonconformist background.
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When the flower children of the 1960s chose the nonconformist road, many of them traveled in unassuming Volkswagen bugs.
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Its a buck a year, show your foid card with pride as a gun owner, not with shame of a conformist who caved to unreasonable opression.
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Toyota hopes the quirky styling will appeal to all those young nonconformists out there.
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The nonconformist painter's incompatibility with French colonial life provided Maugham with a pretext to explore the role of the artist in society.
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Those who are in revolt against society are conformists; they reject one form of conformity and accept another form of conformity.
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Boys tend to be less conformist than girls.
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It is a chance to express their natural desire for a little creative devilment, usually at the expense of their conformist elders.
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All that rebellion for all those years and then it turns out there's a part of me that's just dying to be a conformist.
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Current or former teenage girls are strongly advised to see Ghost World at their earliest convenience, particularly if they're current or former misfits and/or nonconformists.
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Today, even as traffic signals multiply and thick yellow lines bisect and trisect the roads, motorists, scooterists and non-conformists all line up together at painfully long red lights and plan strategy.
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Nonconformists retained a deep distrust of their Anglican neighbours.
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Instead of doing things simply because that's the way they've always been done, these nonconformists are turning elsewhere - to science, for instance - in search of more efficient ways.
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Revolution they refused to accept an uncovenanted king; one last brief day of triumph and vengeance they had, when they "rabbled" the conformist curates.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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For example, despite his disagreements with the repressive policy of the Church of England toward evangelical preachers like himself, Bunyan did not follow Roger Williams in refusing all fellowship with conformists.
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There became room for younger, different, mainly nonconformist leaders to assert themselves, not necessarily by parliamentary means.
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A real conformist isn't going to blow the whistle.
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A more important transatlantic forum for cooperation and exchange of knowledge was the Teetotal Movement in which Nonconformists predominated.
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Thus: the jocks are all non-conformists because they all lookalike
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They found it intellectually stultifying and conformist, enslaved to propriety and, well, bloody boring.
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They include a substantial number of international students, and they have a decidedly nonconformist campus culture.
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Because of its trendy college and relatively liberal cadres of lawyers and civil servants, Austin became a magnet for nonconformists.
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The final argument used by the public school is one of socialization and their failed attempts to convince the masses that children need indoctrination and must become social conformists by association with their peers.
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For this, particular thanks are due to the punk and metal movements, partly for their nonconformist spirit and partly for pioneering the idea that musical ability was merely an advantage, rather than a requirement, for starting a band.
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In a society of individualists nobody dare admit to being a conformist.
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Nonconformists were outraged and many of those who had deserted the party in 1886 came back.
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Back in the supermarket, the most oppressively conformist aisle is that in which wine is sold.
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His followers believed people were inherently evil and nonconformist thought was a capital punishment.
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Many were held in the scientific institutions where some of the nonconformists most ardent supporters worked.
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The Western system functions by allowing small islands of dissent in an overwhelming sea of conformist propaganda.
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The defence case was lost but their friendship continued, possibly cemented by links of nonconformist religion and an infectious sense of fun as well as chemistry itself.
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Just because your dress differently than others does not mean that you are non - conformist.
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I was brought up in and around non-conformist places of worship like this, gaslit Evangelical mausolea in terraced city backstreets, bare-boarded Strict Baptism in hidden Chiltern villages.
Sunday Talk
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Their views are non-conformist and their political opinions are extreme.
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The outlaw as defiant nonconformist, as well as social outcast, parallels being an artist who makes functional objects and being an individual who takes pride in the power of invention and skill.
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Realistically, only conformists need apply and that's usually the way it turns out.
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It is typical of his nonconformist approach that he can say: ‘At this stage, it's all about structure and telling the story.’
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It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel.
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I do not know for how long I can pretend to be even a mock conformist.
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On a related note, there is good evidence out there that instead of being passive conformists, Americans are extremely skeptical of anything their government says.
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We bought it Sunday afternoon; Sunday evening, we cooked a beef roast, because we're such conformist traditionalists.
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Born into a dissenting family of Nonconformists, a precursor to the Christian socialist tradition, Blake railed against the powers of both Church and Crown.
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Despite its rather nonconformist looks, the latest Nissan Micra has done exceptionally well and now tops the category with 3,496 sales.
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Early gay culture was like a refuge for all sorts of misfits and nonconformists.
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That doesn't mean you have to like it, but music this stark and astringent seems astonishing in these rigidly conformist times.
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They are often indistinguishable in external appearance from the larger nonconformist chapels in the next street.
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For the post-Soviet KGB, which still occupied the same armada of buildings in historic central Moscow, there were no more ideological nonconformists to persecute.
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Under Stalin's tyranny, the doctrine was employed as a pretext for the persecution and silencing of nonconformist writers.
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Governments and churches had long maintained order by punishing nonconformists with mutilation, torture and gruesome forms of execution, such as burning, breaking, disembowelment, impalement and sawing in half.
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When the Bishop has been here long enough, he will realise that Bradford was built with non-Conformist money, the Irish navvy and an army of desperately poor Britons.
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Violinist Mat Maneri is as wonderfully nonconformist as was his father, the composer and reedman Joe Maneri.
Families That Play Together . . .
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Those who stepped out of line, who adopted Western styles or non-conformist attitudes, found themselves ostracized, assaulted, and even imprisoned.
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An nonconformist can be valiant, effective and pleasant, provided that he hasn't fallen into the conformism of being nonconformist, which is the worst kind of conformism.
Saying The Right Thing
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It's important in building our organizational machines not to exclude the dissenter, the"Outsider", the non-conformist.
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The preppies are all non-conformists because they all lookalike
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When trans women and transfeminine genderqueers are assumed to be conformist, apolitical, and weak while trans men and transmasculine genderqueers are assumed to be radical, with it, and hip, that's transmisogyny (and femmephobia, and subversivism).
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While Michael Adams, who was very much a nonconformist, may have taken him under his wing for a while, the cultural politics of the University at the time I was living there were still quite elitist.
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Nonconformists 'provincialism, the right way can hardly be to provincialise us all round.
Culture and Anarchy
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The Quakers were, and still are, nonconformist pacifists.
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Even in England, where the established Church was Anglican, Nonconformists and radicals organized a National Education League to ensure that under the 1870 Education Act the catechism would not be taught in rate-supported schools.
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They found it intellectually stultifying and conformist, enslaved to propriety and, well, bloody boring.
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It does something rare in contemporary American filmmaking: it takes a sober and nonconformist look at certain complex aspects of contemporary social life.
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All women are affected by judgement - the ‘non conformist’, ‘the sporty chick’, ‘the brainy girl’, it's everyone.
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My heroine - a middle-aged female detective - lives in Marchmont and is a bit of a non-conformist loner.
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Although he seems to be an old-fashioned non-conformist, he is in fact a very devout Catholic.
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So shouldn't it be that winning is the mark of the conformist?
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One explanation is that, unlike farmers and trade unionists, sexual nonconformists did not have enough of a following to legitimize their opposition to majority norms.
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Even now, half a century after Hadow's lecture, much of this music is still to be heard in parish churches up and down the country and even more in nonconformist chapels.
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And his church, was it one of two grand old edifices which still adorn the adjoining parishes of New and Old Shoreham, or merely a nonconformist 'Little Bethel'?
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They were much more concerned with the accuracy of the text than the conformists and it was felt that the Geneva version could be bettered - it had been a bit of a rush job.
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In formulating a rather mild-mannered anarchism, which promises no windows will be broken, the filmmakers, probably unwittingly, have tailored their work to the present conformist climate.
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A comprehensive national Church embracing all but a small number of sectaries and papists would have been a very different matter from a restricted religious establishment, co-existing with large numbers of nonconformists.
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One cannot but fear that Sir Edmund Beckett, who can hardly bring himself to speak of a Nonconformist minister otherwise than as "Stiggins," or of a Nonconformist chapel otherwise than as "little Bethel," is a type of many laymen, who pique themselves on being particularly sound Churchmen, and who, in their open-handed liberality, as regards money, in support of the Church, are worthy of all honor.
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Religion has become a dirty word in our aggressively secularised society, so that any opportunity to take a swipe at it is eagerly embraced by the protagonists of the brave new world of conformist humanism.
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Dr Masters said that these principles were at one time taken for granted by Nonconformist preachers.
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Isn't being a blind rebel equivalent to being a conformist of a different kind?
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About the Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) was the son of a "nonconformist".
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However, English Protestant conformists had a further problem, for their Church, overseen by the sovereign and a clerical hierarchy, was open to the charge of not being sufficiently reformed.
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It's important in building our organizational machines not to exclude the dissenter, the"Outsider", the non-conformist.
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If you look back on the 20th-century, I don't know who was worse: the fanatics or the conformists?
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We speculate that these subcultural forces involve the participant in a social system that devalues nonconformist beliefs and unconventional attitudes and behaviors frequently associated with adolescent smokers.
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At the city's apex resided a local elite of merchants and professionals who were proudly middle-class and predominantly Nonconformist.
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They also pressure nonconformists to adhere to group mores.
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the old stubborn nonconformist spirit of the early settlers
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This non-authoritarian, non-conformist, antic, changeable character, or community of characters, keeps coming up throughout human history.
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It's important in building our organizational machines not to exclude the dissenter, the"Outsider", the non-conformist.
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With its laundry, library, almshouses and handsome non-conformist church, Saltaire was a grand achievement.
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Gladstone had long been a close friend of Michael Faraday, in whom nonconformist religion and science were also united, and wrote one of the earliest and most popular biographies of Faraday.
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She's too much of a conformist to wear silly clothes.
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He gets a job working for IBM, the acme of corporate, conformist paternalism, the antithesis of bohemianism.
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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
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Now, in this increasingly conformist society, even students are joining in with the spirit of censorship.
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So a Republican in Hollywood is a true nonconformist.
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One nonconformist, New York Times reporter Barry Bearak, gave $250 to a Green Party candidate.
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Those who are in revolt against society are conformists; they reject one form of conformity and accept another form of conformity.
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It made spirituality an exciting quest for nonconformists!
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I think there is more often than not a routine that takes place between improvisers that is more conformist and restrictive than they would ever imagine or admit to.
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A more important transatlantic forum for cooperation and exchange of knowledge was the Teetotal Movement in which Nonconformists predominated.
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Despite his talk about nonconformity, the author is decidedly conformist.
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He's a sort of a contrarian ( 'nonconformist' is overworked, na?).
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The trouble for me was having to decide between a black tank that read ‘You nonconformists are all alike’ and a red T-shirt that had the AP logo on the front.
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Lee's was the voice of the teenage nonconformist, looking for kicks in a boring suburb, diffident at best about the family structures by which he was nevertheless completely defined.
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The Beatles liked to be thought of as eccentric nonconformists.
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It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel.
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Underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist.
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By the closing years of this era some nonconformists were living quite well.
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Traditionalists argue that the so-called nonconformist has become the boring norm, and that the nominee or wedding guest who respects the rules has as many ways of expressing his individuality as the one who flouts them.
Men In Black
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The ex-nonconformists have emerged, and were honoured in 1987 with an officially sponsored major exhibition in Moscow.
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My own cultural background of Welsh political Liberalism and Nonconformist religious conscience - in indirect descent from Lloyd George - has inflected my approach.
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My ideas of free speech, democracy, and religious tolerance followed to win over even the most stubborn of nonconformists.
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I agree that romanticism aestheticizes everything but I do not see it as conformist in the way you do.
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She was also a deeply religious woman, although non-conformist, and anguished over the plight of prostitutes - women she felt were denied the chance to return to God's grace.
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Far from daring, he was a conformist, reinforcing the majority culture views of New Yorker readers.
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The Church people and Nonconformists willingly joined together for this good cause, and made the undertaking very successful.
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The child of a nonconformist father learnt to drink deep of the Catholic tradition.
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It was an exercise to prove the existence of a Nonconformist unity which only came into existence by the exercise.
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Every barbed remark directed at a non-conformist is also an affirmation of his/her existence.
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He is known for his non-conformist attitude in every field in which he has proven himself, be it politics, theatre or the legal profession.
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The different pews found there reflect differing forms of worship down the centuries, from high church to non-conformist and back again.
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That's because the pledge was regarded as a badge of nonconformist pride.
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This view prevailed among nonconformists, of course, not least among them Cartwright himself and Richard Baxter a century later.
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At one point in the film, Keyes refers to himself as "poppa," suggesting a protective authority and "an endorsement of a conformist society" Evans 166.
Just to prove I went to grad school (as if anyone cares)
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Lagrange's outspoken views have left him well outside the conformist political mainstream.
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their rabidly nonconformist deportment has made them legendary
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The era ended in reaction: evangelical, political, romantic, conformist.
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It stands in marked contrast to what (both in the Anglican and Nonconformist traditions) has prevailed from the Reformation onwards.
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Are we programmed to be conformists, secretly fascinated by the power of authority, as the psychologists of the Frankfurt School wondered darkly in the aftermath of the Second World War?
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The NRA also claims that more dual carriageways and motorways will save lives, suggesting that the nonconformists are, if not anti-life, at least prepared to turn a blind eye to protect their own interests.
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Emerging from the earlier Reformers with the creation of the Canadian Confederation, its initial support was based on a coalition between Ontario Nonconformists and Quebec anticlericals.
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deeply provincial and conformist
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Church-building was matched by equally rapid growth of nonconformist chapels.
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From the 1950s to the '70s it suppressed dissent, it harassed nonconformists and there's good evidence that it damaged the careers of some of our most unconventional writers and thinkers.
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Thrift and thriftlessness mean the same thing in this town, where I noticed that even Nonconformist chapels, with broken windows, had been left to the rats and birds.
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In the Soviet Union, where all religion was practically prohibited and anti-Semitism was sanctioned by the state, dyeing eggs was only slightly less daring than buying matzo, which is why, I suspect, my nonconformist mother rebelliously did both.
Peace Meals
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They were British and they were Nonconformist.
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They are described as: instinctively rebellious, non-conformist, narcissistic and determined to stay young.
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Like the younger composer he also stepped over the mark on occasion and was branded a "formalist" before apologies and conformist material re-established a secure position, though he was never able to fully express himself under these conditions.
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We live, after all, in one of the most conformist ages in history - the age of reason as we like to call it.
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The young rebel turned into a sad old conformist dad.
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He notes the struggle during Elizabeth's reign between committed Protestants and the majority of conformists, the latter often unsympathetic to Protestant doctrines if, indeed, they understood them.
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Take, for example, the non-conformist Enid, who delights in wearing retro tortoiseshell specs, thrift-store garb and gaudy lipstick and despises all around her.
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Reciprocally, conformity theory predicts that spiritual experiences in turn reinforce conformist beliefs and practices.
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Such conditions on the labour market and in the unions favour discrimination against minorities, such as persons with foreign origin, women, dissidents and political nonconformists.
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His grating voice, frameless spectacles, faded suits and short, stringy hair all broke with the conformist protest style.
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During this time, the non-conformist Protestant religions, such as Congregationalists, Methodists and Baptists, were at the forefront of religious evangelism.
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One is not advocating a return to the complacent and conformist themes of studio biographies, much less historical falsification, but then a filmmaker has to advance resolutely toward something new.
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Hall is fascinated with the ordinary person's philosophy of life and society, and his songs display sympathy for eccentrics and non-conformists.
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They can step outside of the conformist straitjackets of their own culture and become hip, become cool.
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His fiercely nonconformist parents, small shopkeepers, brutally opposed and curbed his bent for painting.
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The Nonconformists, however, objected because in localities where they were in the minority the religious instruction given in the schools would be denominational, that is Anglican.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Polls suggest that, in these increasingly health-obsessed and conformist times, public opinion might also now be amenable.
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There became room for younger, different, mainly nonconformist leaders to assert themselves, not necessarily by parliamentary means.
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And she hated me for it --- she hated that conformist side of me.
BEHINDLINGS
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The nonconformist chapels, moral beacons to many in the Victorian heyday, were now suffering from falling membership, declining funds, and diminished authority.
