But if conformity is something you really do want, conformity can be just as authentic as rebelliousness.

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Politicians being who they are, the bitter rebelliousness in his party may give way to guilty, sentimental loyalty.

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This rebelliousness makes France, like its football team, particularly hard to govern.

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And unthinking rebelliousness can be just as inauthentic as slavish conformity.

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The first room has Expressionist portraits he did of his friends in Berlin (the writers Raoul Hausmann and Rudolf Borchardt among others) that testify to his early rebelliousness.

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Trisha Brown first made a name for herself in the 1960s when she appeared on the New York dance scene as a performer of quiet charisma and a dance maker of regularly sly rebelliousness.

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This culminated in the rebelliousness of the Sixties.

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But they did zero in on movies by controlling for a wide range of extenuating factors, including race, household income, school performance, parenting styles, smoking among friends and family members, and even personality traits such as rebelliousness.

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