How to Use conformist in a Sentence

conformist

adjective

• One of the biggest challenges any White racial non-conformist faces is being expelled by their tribe.
  — John Blake, CNN, 1 Jan. 2022
• There was a little reference to people who were older than me at school who impressed me, who seemed quite non-conformist.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 June 2022
• The idea that most of the planet followed and cared about a couple dozen people who sang songs or appeared in films will strike us as strange and embarrassingly conformist.
  — George Gurley, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• Described as anti-conformist and a tribute to masculine freedom, this is a fragrance perfect for the gentleman looking to make a statement and break the mold.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
• Fellow radio DJs in the electronic underground, the pair were joined by their desire to make their mark on the relatively conformist music scene.
  — Monica Kim, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
• Through the 1940s, jazz-loving white outsiders such as the Beats picked up on cool, including its non-conformist undertones, and disseminated it to the rest of America.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2020
• In the 17th century play, Dom Juan is a non-conformist who casts off many women after seducing them and harbors a disregard for religion and social norms.
  — Bellamy Richardson, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2022
• The results have been far from unpromising, notwithstanding the fog machine of an unimaginative and conformist press.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
• Even so, Mailer concluded his piece with a spurt of anti-conformist rhetoric that anticipated the countercultural ethos of the 1960s.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 6 June 2021
• As hard as being openly gay may be in Japan’s conformist society, in some ways public attitudes have evolved more quickly than those of the country’s political leaders.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2021
• People in the middle of status hierarchies are more conformist than those above and those below, motivated by fear of status loss; Barbara Ehrenreich called it the fear of falling.
  — Joan C. Williams, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
• This difference is visible on the battlefield, where the Russian Army is conformist and cowering, and the outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian Army adaptable and creative.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• And where the exercise of one’s imagination can be dismissed as a blandly unimaginative, even conformist gesture?
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• The neighborhood earned a new reputation as a place to escape the pressures of South Korean society, bound by Confucian hierarchies and conformist views.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• The Drudge Report has become a conformist shadow of its formerly bratty, oppositional self.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020
• What rankles—or to use one of the artist’s preferred words, sucks—is that Zappa’s concept of anti-conformist individualism settled into something so conventional.
  — John Semley, The New Republic, 26 Nov. 2020
• These days, that strategy feels more conformist than revolutionary.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2023
• How the girls survive the conformist pressures and prejudices of their small-minded town would be sufficiently gripping thanks to Barnhill’s skills at developing complex, empathetic characters.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022
• But the taboos that governed political affiliation in what was until very recently a high-consensus, highly conformist society have been breached.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• What’s worse, many approaches toward A.I. creativity will actually lead, over time, to the production of increasingly conformist works—the exact opposite of what creative processes should be trying to do.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
• The deep conformist tendencies of Japanese society sometimes set off discriminatory attitudes about mental health.
  — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 31 Dec. 2021
• Though remembered as an admirer of American democracy, Tocqueville was dismayed by individualist, commercialist, and conformist tendencies.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 20 Oct. 2021
• One of the biggest challenges any White racial non-conformist faces is being expelled by their tribe.
  — John Blake, CNN, 1 Jan. 2022
• There was a little reference to people who were older than me at school who impressed me, who seemed quite non-conformist.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 June 2022
• The idea that most of the planet followed and cared about a couple dozen people who sang songs or appeared in films will strike us as strange and embarrassingly conformist.
  — George Gurley, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• Described as anti-conformist and a tribute to masculine freedom, this is a fragrance perfect for the gentleman looking to make a statement and break the mold.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
• Fellow radio DJs in the electronic underground, the pair were joined by their desire to make their mark on the relatively conformist music scene.
  — Monica Kim, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
• Through the 1940s, jazz-loving white outsiders such as the Beats picked up on cool, including its non-conformist undertones, and disseminated it to the rest of America.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2020
• In the 17th century play, Dom Juan is a non-conformist who casts off many women after seducing them and harbors a disregard for religion and social norms.
  — Bellamy Richardson, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2022
• The results have been far from unpromising, notwithstanding the fog machine of an unimaginative and conformist press.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024