(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.
Nonconformist
Definition:
(n.) One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.
Example Sentences:
(1) And many who shouted the odds about a nonconformist, anti-establishment lifestyle are now rats in the ratrace: even as a poet I seem to spend most of my time filling in forms, teaching, going to meetings, commuting – hardly the bohemian fantasy.
(2) Patterns of food exclusion and of frequency of consumption of 35 foods and food groups were consistent with classifications as conformists or nonconformists.
(3) He was the nonconformist hero of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros at the Royal Court in 2007 and the hedonistic historian in Rattigan’s After The Dance at the National in 2010 .
(4) Dr Pangloss, aka Gove, took the view that journalism was a rough sort of trade, attracting nonconformists or, to put it another way, the reckless types who might not be above hacking a phone or breaking a law or two.
(5) His journey through Fettes College, Oxford, the bar and high churchery had given him not one gene of old Labour nonconformist puritanism.
(6) Individuals who were willing to grant such rights to homosexuals as teaching in college, speaking in a local community, and removing a book from a local library written by a homosexual and favorable to homosexuality, tended to be well educated, young, Jewish or nonreligious, from urban areas, raised in the Northeast or Pacific states, and willing to provide freedom of expression to people with nonconformist political ideas.
(7) "R ebel rebel, you've torn your dress," observed David Bowie in 1974, setting the bar rather low for aspiring nonconformists.
(8) "Here's someone who's one of the most nonconformist individuals you can think of.
(9) For example, the nonconformist tradition Labour and the liberals inherited saw gambling as one of the worst forms of exploitation.
(10) Otherwise difficulties arise in road traffic from the psychiatric point of view through the nonconformist behavior of the normal citizen who apparently finds it difficult to realize the principles of self-responsibility.
(11) 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.
(12) We are here to remember a hero,” said Dr Usman Chaudhary, opening the service at the British Muslim Heritage Centre, a grade II* listed building in south Manchester which originally housed a seminary for nonconformist Christian ministers.
(13) However, parents, teachers, and institutions must display considerably more flexibility and tolerance towards individually minded persons who behave in seemingly nonconformist ways.
(14) Clinical and psychological examinations helped identify two basic patterns of psychic adaptation to stressful flying activities which manifested as asthenic trends and predisposition to nonconformist behaviour.
(15) Within months a new religion had emerged – spiritualism – a mixture of liberal, nonconformist values and fireside chats with dead people.
(16) Prince: a shy, nonconformist, unknowable talent | Alexis Petridis Read more Intense press scrutiny didn’t seem to agree with Prince, who shunned interviews and in 1985 announced his retirement from live performing.
(17) Even this august organ, which sprang from the loins of nonconformist dissent, astounded many readers with its broad acres of Pope reverencing.
(18) And today I cried at least three or four times.” Prince: a shy, nonconformist, unknowable talent | Alexis Petridis Read more Inside First Avenue, the mood was electric, as the roughly 1,500 fans fortunate to make it inside the ultimate Prince farewell party danced the night away, appreciating the special permit secured by the club, which allowed it to stay open until 6 or 7am on Friday.
(19) I'd had my rationales for this, the main one being that I hadn't wanted to impose too zealously nonconformist a lifestyle on my family.
(20) Neofascism is unlike its 1930s predecessor, in that today a global elite of the absurdly wealthy and influential is steering an ideology that wants a shrinking government, falling taxes on high incomes, and authoritarian control over recalcitrants, nonconformists, collective bodies and "losers" in the market society, including the disabled and young unemployed.