Sentences with phrase «as nonconformists»

Unfortunately, most simply give in and «go with the flow,» out of fear that they'll be penalized as nonconformists.

It has evolved since then, the functionality and innate coolness of the piece has earned it the status as the nonconformists» uniform of choice in the»50s.

Einstein's greatest contributions to science and to society were as a nonconformist.

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He was definitely a nonconformist in a lot of ways (the things he said and taught were pretty radical), though he was also the biggest conformist in all of history if you think about him being the only person to perfectly abide by the law and conform to the pattern of humanity as God originally intended.

If we consult Amos as our classical type of radical nonconformist religion, we find that he like his contemporary Isaiah, was critical of all religion that was not creative in seeking a just social policy.

Anglican and Nonconformist theologians, philosophers, and writers (Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Frederic Dennis Maurice, Charles Kingsley), especially the Christian Socialists, were interested in the normative aspect of the problems of religion and society.15 In the younger generation several of these trends are blended: William Temple, John MacMurray, Maurice B. Rickett, Vigo A. Demant.16 Max Weber's influence in England never reached as deep as in France or the United States; it remained limited to his theories on economics.

But as the Atlantic's Ross Douthat points out, this isn't «nonconformity for nonconformity's sake; it's cast as a case where being a nonconformist happens to be the right thing to be.»

In the eighteenth and the early decades of the nineteenth century Nonconformists had «academies» which, while not granting degrees, gave fully as good higher education as did the universities at Oxford and on the Cam.

And I am grateful, as a child who grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, that he settled in our town, where we needed all the nonconformists we could get.

This tolerance, which as Weeks points out has today too often been transformed into hostility and an invitation to treatment, is part of our lost legacy of innocence — a fact made more apparent by the forbearance shown to mental, physical and gender idiosyncracies in many aboriginal cultures, not least the native American, where sexual and mental nonconformists were allowed dignified co-existence with their kinspeople.

If some people had special tickets that allowed them to go backstage or entitled them to some other privilege, it would greatly slow the GPU's capabilities as the processor decided what to do with the nonconformists.

Growing up in Denver, he inherited a nonconformist streak from his mother, who delighted in the disapproving looks she would get as she rode a man's bike through the neighborhood.

Harvard researchers found that a bit of uniqueness (e.g., a bearded professor in a T - shirt when compared to a clean - shaven one in a suit) can cause others to perceive you as having higher status — most likely because they reach the conclusion that you must have more status to be able to be a nonconformist.

I would describe my blog as effortless, simplistic, nonconformist, feminine, and fun.

Pointy - toe flats as well as flat boots and sandals offer a nonconformist and «just because «air to your look.

Like other nonconformist, iconoclastic actors such as Sean Penn and Joaquin Phoenix, Bale eschews playing the Hollywood celebrity game and doesn't care about how he is perceived publicly, wanting his work to speak for itself.

«The Glass Castle» Release Date: TBD Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Starring: Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson and Max Greenfield Synopsis: A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

A girl named Jeannette (Brie Larson) comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

This time he adapts the memoirs of Jeannette Walls, as played by Brie Larson, a woman growing up in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father.

SYNOPSIS (via iMDB): A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

According to a 2003 report in a Maryland newspaper, a local high school English teacher, as part of a lesson on Henry David Thoreau, urged his students to perform a «nonconformist act.»

This group's thirst for nonconformist epistemologies is suffused with an appetite for irony quite capable of accepting the adoption of questionable tendencies, like white supremacy, as instances of banal posturing or jaded affectation.

Nonconformist and at the same time authorized, and following spatial theories such as Michel Foucault's «heterotopia», a project space is a typology that is neither here nor there.

The exhibition's title acts as a play - on - words for West's nonconformist, anarchic approach to creating artworks and his critical place in Western art history.

As an artist he occupied a nonconformist position: radical, humorous and always engaged in a quest of ambiguity.

The implacable clarity of those that choose their own paths, who shy away from conformity — even those in nonconformist worlds, such as art — often construct the most solid foundations.

Nonconformists are definitely unwelcome... and it doesn't even seem as if he would have congenial and / or stimulating colleagues.