What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity.

In almost four decades since the People's Republic was founded, ideological and intellectual conformity, forged during periods of tremendous political turmoil, has been idealized.

Dadaists rejected cultural and intellectual conformity in art and more broadly in society.

Political correctness and intellectual conformity thrive in academia, perpetuated by a tenure system that makes short work of challenges to accepted dogma.

First, puncture the bubble of intellectual conformity that marks every administration by breaking the spell of groupthink and self-serving spin.

Supporters of Rand's work recognize the phenomenon, but attribute it to the loss of youthful idealism and inability to resist social pressures for intellectual conformity.

For Mir Dimad and Mulla Sadra, true knowledge could never be a matter of intellectual conformity.

What made the Church different was that it had the power to enforce its opposition and was a smoothly running machine that had become horribly efficient in imposing intellectual conformity.

Secular nationalism has been known to impose intellectual conformity and suppress dissent even in advanced democratic societies.

The professed academic commitment to diversity actually expresses the rampant intellectual conformity that has settled like a thick fog over academic institutions ever since the 1960's.