conformities
- plural of conformity.
Example Sentences
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Director Milos Forman was shaped by European sensibilities but his films were shrewd and intimate portraits of the yearnings, transgressions, politics, sexual fascinations, rebelliousness and complicated conformities that soothed, rattled and challenged the American spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
In particular, Garnett thoroughly scorned “commercialism, the insularity of the English, their demand that literature should merely endorse prevailing social norms and conformities, the expectation of ‘healthy optimism’ and a happy ending.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018
For these seekers after truth, “the woods” became, like “the greenwood” in Merrie England, the place where an individual could truly savour the mysteries of life, free from the restricting conformities of church and state.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2017
“Our contexts are not the same, our struggles are not the same, and so our rebellions and complacencies and conformities and compromises cannot be compared.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2017
If one has a right to conceal his true opinions, and to practice equivocal conformities, then all have a right.
From On Compromise by Morley, John
