Conformities

Moreover, we must judge these accounts by the age in which they were produced, -- an age when the mental food of the pious laity was the life of St. Francis with his five wounds and blasphemous "conformities" to the life of our Lord, and other works of a similar nature. ❋ 1820-1884 (1905)

Much of Harry Potter's iconoclasm disappears on film, due to Hollywood's regimented conformities of set, sound and stereotyped character. ❋ Norman Lebrecht (2011)

Today's societal conformities have diminished even the opportunity for play. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Take one look at where our conformities, well intended and not have led us. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This land imposes no narrow conformities on its citizens: you can be many things and one thing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe it is a genetic element in that whenever we become to complacent to conformities we endanger evolution itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Every weakness is exploited by those who wish to cast dispersions on wines that are unconventional or those which do not exhibit the conformities of wines from more historic regions. ❋ Unknown (2007)

NIST suspended SysTest due to numerous non-conformities with the NIST Handbook 150-22 Voting System Testing, which sets forth the procedures, requirements and guidance for the accreditation of testing and calibration laboratories by the National Voting Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Non-conformities included failure to create and validate test methods, improper documentation of testing and unqualified personnel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But rock and roll, which used to signify teenage rebellion against such conformities as school, is more at home in boozy clubs and throbbing arenas. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When the more grotesquely deformed children play peek-a-boo with their prey from behind carnival masks, we're left with the haunting ambiguity of not knowing whether they're ashamed of their non-conformities or blithely mocking the presumed perfection of the normals. ❋ Arbogast (2008)

The rage for loyal conformity works impartially, and often in diametric opposition to other orthodoxies and traditional conformities or ideals. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If you would be instructed thoroughly, consult the conformities of St. Francis of Assisi. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In Western experience, we can track establishment of conformities, and the development of various forms of collectivization and causes thereof. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One of the complications of that view, of course, is that many proposed actions conform to one or more such rules while also violating others, so that one must have at hand and apply a hierarchy of rules in order to decide whether the conformities would outweigh the violations. ❋ Mike L (2007)

With that anticipation, I delved into the Red Hat Club expecting to meet funny and wise earth mothers, no longer held hostage to social conformities. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In fine, a certain sagacity in investigating and hunting out physical conformities and similitudes is of very great use in very many cases. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Not only was Kenyon void of these conformities, but he had successfully recovered stolen art. ❋ Paul Lindsay (2005)

[Followers] of [fashion] ❋ Dr. Reedman (2003)

[Conformity] "Isn't that Jenny just a skank?" -Breann "I know! I've heard so much crap about her. Let me tell you." -Leah "I'm going to the game tomorrow, but [my folks] are going to Church. You going to the game?" -Joseph "Of course, if you're going. I'd just have to skip Church." -Ben [Nonconformity] "Isn't that Jenny just a skank?" -Breann "I like Jenny, and Jenny is my friend." -Leah "I'm going to the game tomorrow, but my folks are going to Church. You going to the game?" -Joseph "Nah, man. My parents are making me go to Church, but even if they weren't, I'd still go anyway. I like Church." -Ben ❋ TheNonconformist (2012)

❋ Anonymous (2003)

Some dude: Look, I'm going to [jump off] this bridge! Everyone is! Even Betty! C'mon Jeff, join us! Jeff the [Conformist]: Well since everyone else is, I [s'pose] I will too! ❋ Diana Stephens (2004)

when a [group] of people [dress] [the same] that is conforming ❋ Coreymothafuckingjames (2011)

[Office worker] 1: Dude you might want to dress up a bit more for the next meeting. Office worker 2: Fuck you! [I don't do] [conformals]. ❋ Sexy Legs (2012)

The coach makes the players [conform] when he makes players tuck their uniforms in, take their steel [cleats] off on the bus or going into ANY public place, hit a certain way, wear sleeves under 70 degrees, and [abide] by his rules only. ❋ Shawtyisakilla (2010)

Conformity: You, [your family], [your friends], me, [everyone]. ❋ Tk Like Whoa (2007)

[nuff said], non-conforming is conforming ❋ The_Dark_Side (2005)

"I hate all you stupid [conformists]! That's why I shop at Hot Topic!" [Fucking die] you self-proclaimed [anti-conformist] morons. ❋ The Mysterious J (2004)