conformist

• “Lori has been a non-conformist from the beginning.”

  The Huffington Post: Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum: Fashion Stylist Lori Goldstein Discusses The Contents Of Her Closet (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

• “As another rabbi wrote to me, "The only thing that a non-conformist hates more than a conformist is another nonconformist who does not conform to their standard of non-conformity.”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi Alan Lurie: Reframing the Conversation After 'Anatomy of an Angry Atheist'

• “But young people see dense cities with rail transit as cool, desirable, and fun and the suburbs as stifling and conformist, which is the polar opposite of older generations who feared cities and viewed them as dangerous and subways and light rail as second rate transit.”

  The Huffington Post: Greg Selkoe: Grand Theft Auto 3: Rail City

• “She's not what I'd call a conformist, and she doesn't treat her humans the way most everyone else does.”

  The Elvenbane

• “A conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it-but an individualist is not a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it.”

  The Virtue of Selfishness

• “It's a dimension of liturgy and of Christian identity that I think has been brought out more clearly than ever in the last few years by some rather maverick kinds of biblical scholarship -- 'maverick', because many of the assumptions of biblical scholarship in the last couple of generations have been based on the idea that essentially the Jewish world of Jesus 'day was non-conformist, that is, that it approached liturgy very much at the level of ideas and inspiration.”

  An address by the Archbishop of Canterbury given to a meeting of the Alcuin Club at Lambeth Palace

• “But, because it's "conformist" or "normative," we don't get as excited about historicizing it quite precisely as we do when Bennett uses the l-word.”

  Teach This Book! Judith Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (Part 3 Of A Blogfest)

• “The children, in fact, seem to have moved from one kind of conformist society to another.”

  Newsweek: An Emotional Moonscape

• “In conclusion, then, it is perhaps worth recalling the words of Lt.Col. Darrel Vandeveld, the self-confessed "conformist" and prosecutor in seven cases before the Military Commissions (including that of Binyam Mohamed), who quit his job on September 24, complaining that potentially exculpatory evidence was not provided to the defense lawyers, and that the Commissions system was "not served by having someone who may be innocent be convicted of the crime.”

  Andy Worthington: U.S. Justice Department drops "dirty bomb plot" allegation against Binyam Mohamed

• “It is a "conformist" stage in the sense that it is acutely tuned to the expectations and judgments of significant others and as yet does not have a sure enough grasp on its own identity and autonomous judgment to construct and maintain an independent perspective.”

  Archive 2008-04-01

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