Word: conformer
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...essays treated these and other national preoccupations comically but gently. She did not topple idols but admired them from a safe distance. Her pose was that of the indefatigable but bumbling striver, chirping away about her supposed inability to stage a dinner party, cope with preternaturally wisecracking children or conform to the feminine image conveyed in glossy women's magazines. If any malice was in her, she kept it out of her prose...
...patrol the pocket, set up roadblocks, question and detain whomever they want. The only way to travel, suggested the U.N. official, was to get rid of anything-papers, money, candy wrappers, that would indicate you were from Israel. And wristwatches, he added, should be set forward one hour to conform with Lebanese time. The time difference was a dead giveaway to Palestinian interrogators...
Women's bodies are "objectified and dismembered" in advertising, Kilbourne said. "Minority women are either made to conform to these stereotypes or are further exploited. To be old is to be contemptible or deformed. Women together are competitive and catty," Kilbourne said...
...recent weeks, your newspaper has arried stories about the controversy surrounding the denial of funding to the exposure, a publication written by Boston University students and others, which has been denied University funding until it agrees to conform with University policy. I would like to offer a brief explanation of the University's policy with regard to publications...
...least, has caught a glimpse of the future and is not at all sure that it works. So has neighboring Oregon, which has decided to throttle back on growth and has developed a master plan requiring its 276 local governments to work out their own schemes, which must conform with state guidelines...