Word: conform
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...problem always defined in terms of "What women are doing wrong (or failing to do) in class?" Why not address the real problem--sections dominated by a few people who are overly aggressive...I'm tired of being told that women are too passive and that I must conform to a standard I don't value...
...will feature various genres of writing, including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The only requirement is that submissions conform to each issue's specific theme, organizers said...
...singularity of being that leaps from his best male portraits. They are always cast in the passive voice: the madonnas with their union of tenderness, patrician grace and a certain country solidity, and the nymphs and goddesses (Venus especially), those Venetian odalisques whose weighty gold- pink flesh may not conform to modern conventions of beauty but excited Titian's contemporaries to rapture. There too Titian embodied the assumptions of his time, place and class. What terser image of sociosexual politics in 16th century Venice could one ask for than Titian's Danae, princess of Argos, seduced by Zeus...
...University had originally planned to build a hotel roughly twice the size of the one currently under construction, but scaled back its design to conform with the new zoning...
...feared at home, he is equally ruthless in preserving his power. He is omnipresent, his face, sometimes several feet high, adorning every city block. His picture hangs in every office, every shop, even most private homes, lest the dreaded secret police pay a call. Those who don't conform pay. A senior general once warned him, according to an Iraqi informant, that an attack he had ordered would lead to very high casualties. Saddam invited the general into the next room to discuss the matter. After the door closed behind them, a shot rang out. Saddam returned alone, stuffing...