(n.) One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.
Example Sentences:
(1) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(2) Charlie Hebdo was launched by a group of "non-conformists" who had previously run a monthly called Hara Kiri (whose subtitle read: "dumb and nasty").
(3) As a test of the hypothesis that consistent short sleepers tend to be less reflective and more conformist in their thinking than long sleepers, the I-E scale scores of 15 short and 15 long sleepers were compared.
(4) Post-conformists obtained the highest mean scores on Picture Arrangement; however, there was no difference among the lower stages on this subtest.
(5) SCT findings revealed an expected pattern for middle childhood with the preponderance of children falling into impulsive, self-protective, and conformist stages of ego development.
(6) Patterns of food exclusion and of frequency of consumption of 35 foods and food groups were consistent with classifications as conformists or nonconformists.
(7) More research is also needed on the treatment of the Passive Conformist group.
(8) Maintaining abstinence in both crises was consistently associated with being in serious-minded (telic) and conformist states.
(9) In the same way that Isis offers a chance for teenagers and non-conformists to rebel against their communities and families, it also offers the same for women.
(10) In the slanging match that followed, Jean-Marie Le Pen accused his daughter of turning the far right party into a conformist group “without substance”.
(11) A character in Vieira’s strong-willed mode is precisely what Newcastle need but it appears unclear as to how such a potentially challenging figure would fit into Mike Ashley’s hitherto ultra-conformist regime.
(12) Chevalier de Tromelin was hierarchically just under him; this Chevalier had a character as chilly and stiff as the Bailli was the opposite; both were ambitious and deserving officers, the Chevalier being as much conformist as his "adversary" was fiery and bold.
(13) : a) cooperative-conformist in 66 patients; b) cooperative-over-particular in 20 patients without therapeutic failure; c) non-cooperative by interest 21 (16.93%) with 11 failures (52.3%); d) completely noncooperative (nonsocial) 17-13.71% with 13 failures (76.48%).
(14) Patients with secondary Raynaud's phenomenon were found to be more distant, more conformist, more able to control their emotions and seemed to be less inclined to seek help when in trouble.
(15) Four experiments examined freely interacting groups to investigate the determinants of group members' reactions to opinion deviates and conformists.
(16) Once mocked as a marginal non-conformist with a penchant for funky hairstyles , the young firebrand is seen, even by his enemies, as a talented politician with extraordinary ambition.
(17) Instead of producing confident students who can handle any argument you throw at them, universities are a production line for cowed conformists.
(18) Lastly, because I can see Molière starting to flag and scratch at his wig, I explain how, in the 1960s and 70s, there was a brief moment when a counter-cultural agenda opposed the mainstream before being swept along by it, and how today's clamouring for "choice" masks a society of well-tamed conformists, whose addiction to media-driven fantasies of property and celebrity distracts them from their inability to shape their own lives.
(19) There is a long tradition of performing rebellious, or non-conformist, nuns in our cultural landscape and Sister Cristina shows that our fascination with them has not yet worn thin.
(20) An instrument for differentiating between individuals exhibiting conformist and nonconformist or nontraditional food consumption patterns was developed and used for recruitment and identification of respondents for a study of food-related behavior and attitudes.
Maverick
Definition:
(n.) In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
(2) When Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals , a series where James made a habit of disappearing in the fourth quarter, it somehow felt like an underdog victory (because nothing screams "true underdogs" like a Dallas-based team bankrolled by a billionaire mogul ).
(3) And it's the same story across Europe: the populist right is on the march , along with a hotch-potch of anti-Brussels mavericks such as Italy's Beppe Grillo – and, in a handful of states, growing parties of the radical left.
(4) As for her outspoken nature and self-styled "maverick" persona: "We didn't know that when we picked her."
(5) The Kings won their second straight on Monday, beating the Dallas Mavericks 112-97, despite having only 10 players available after the seven-player trade with Toronto was finalized.
(6) It is a world away from untrammelled narcissism, of which the maverick finance minister has been accused.
(7) At the end of the year, Maury Maverick, a New Deal congressman from Texas, worried that "we have pulled all of the rabbits out of the hat.
(8) Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who had earlier expressed reservations about forcing Sterling to sell the Clippers , said he supported Silver's actions "100%" and posted a photo of the NBA's constitution on Instagram with the caption: "It exists for a reason."
(9) Monta Ellis had 21 points for the Mavericks, who had won three straight, including the last two on the road.
(10) He dresses in the familiar single-piece olive green uniform worn by Tom Cruise in Top Gun, and like Cruise’s character, Maverick, he flies missions over war zones with multi-million dollar aircraft.
(11) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
(12) We present what is known about the problems of mavericks for estimating odds ratios and clarify the interpretation of odds ratios.
(13) He is a maverick, a teenager – and dabbles in enough off-beat skits to fill that token jazz category.
(14) But it observes: "As a maverick of Chinese society, [Ai] likes 'surprising speech' and 'surprising behaviour'.
(15) As panic spread, and Britain's own financial institutions came under massive pressure, the man who had for 12 consecutive months been warning of just this sort of crisis turned overnight from lonely maverick into sage with the crystal ball.
(16) The Spurs led by 20 points in the third quarter before the Mavericks pulled even midway through the fourth quarter.
(17) • Speaking of Mark Cuban and the Mavericks, no they did not draft Brittney Griner, like Cuban said they might, earlier this year .
(18) Armitage declined to comment on the possible switch, beyond: "Radio 2 tends to be where genius and the mavericks turn up."
(19) The prime minister also reinforced his reputation as the EU’s main maverick with a powerful anti-immigration manifesto that equates migrants with terrorists, says immigrants are taking Hungarians’ jobs, recommends internment camps for illegal immigrants and states they should be forced to work.
(20) "New Hampshire Republicans see themselves as mavericks in the Republican party," Scala said.