The word doctrinaire -- word full of terror to the British mind -- reappeared from time to time between his explosions. From Wordnik.com. [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference
That's what was so funny about you calling out Freder for being too "doctrinaire" the other day. From Wordnik.com. [Suing your own abortionist for making you witness the murder of your accidentally delivered child.] Reference
It might sound drily 'doctrinaire', but a core set of principles exist to help you to make sense of turmoil. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
But it's an interesting hypothesis, and one doesn't refute it simply by shouting "economicist!" or name-calling "doctrinaire". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
What I mean to say is I find the idea of some kind of doctrinaire restrictions placed on artistic expression abhorrent enough. From Wordnik.com. [the misogyny post (updated)] Reference
"Initially the guys who came up with D&D in the first place were kind of doctrinaire perfectionists," says. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
A "doctrinaire," who had missed his election to the Chamber by one hundred and fifty votes out of one hundred and fifty-five, here rose. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Inn] Reference
Therefore, I think it is most important that we, having these positions, should not assume any kind of doctrinaire attitude towards life. From Wordnik.com. [Leadership] Reference
“I’m not some kind of doctrinaire LaRouche follower. From Wordnik.com. [Blueblood War] Reference
He hasn't been dogmatic, he hasn't been doctrinaire. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Clegg: We've released the inner Liberal in many Tories] Reference
Obama has sent signals that he is not doctrinaire on the issue. From Wordnik.com. [A Complicated Record On Race] Reference
And I also think that he was not just a doctrinaire conservative. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2008] Reference
More than something of a doctrinaire, her observations on "Romanism". From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
To begin with, many doctrinaire conservatives oppose the common core. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Gottlieb: Hold the Center] Reference
Heligoland I shall not complain that its behavior has been purely doctrinaire. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
It would do no harm to stir up the doctrinaire assumptions with the bayonet-poker. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
He is an admirable doctrinaire and generalizer, -- witness Guizot and Montesquieu. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Or he'll Bork himself, becoming too arrogant and doctrinaire at the confirmation hearings. From Wordnik.com. [Liberals And The Lessons Of Bork] Reference
But Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is known best for his very public, very doctrinaire point of view. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2005] Reference
Many true believers were disappointed that Roberts does not appear to be a doctrinaire conservative. From Wordnik.com. [Transition: Hail To The Chief] Reference
He was himself a strange incarnation at once of doctrinaire liberalism and the old Habsburg autocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Never did he assume the unfriendly or unyielding attitude of the doctrinaire or the man of a single idea. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
Instead, Souter turned out to be a non-doctrinaire New Englander who typically sided with the liberal justices. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Accidental President'] Reference
And I think you know that, if you came to this committee and we debated it, the result would not be doctrinaire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2002] Reference
The very orthodox doctrinaire, dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, celebrated this Mass. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2005] Reference
He would be happy to go out and give a speech that made him sound like he was the greatest doctrinaire since Huey Long. From Wordnik.com. [The Left Starts to Rethink Reagan] Reference
Although the PT hierarchy has forced the radical rank-and-file to the center, a doctrinaire reflex twitches in Brasilia. From Wordnik.com. [Lula's Balancing Act] Reference
I am in the center of a doctrinaire universe, where those who fear me scavenge my mind for a sickness that I do not have. From Wordnik.com. [The Abyss of Contemplative Hatred] Reference
If he appoints someone who is a doctrinaire conservative whom Democrats can depict as too extreme, there will be a very bloody battle. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2005] Reference
In 1993 the most doctrinaire communist leader in Africa, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, had been defeated in the country's first free elections. From Wordnik.com. [An African Big Man In Trouble] Reference
But at the same time, he has really angered lots of Americans with the feeling that he's too stubborn, too doctrinaire, and too ideological. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2004] Reference
Compared to him, the younger generation of "media artists" looks doctrinaire and prissy, and the latest brushy painters cramped and academic. From Wordnik.com. [Back To The Future] Reference
JAFFE: And this time Boxer is likely to face a different kind of adversary than in the past, when she's run against doctrinaire conservative men. From Wordnik.com. [Sen. Boxer's GOP Challengers Aren't Pulling Punches] Reference
If Louisville's plan is more costly and complex, he said, it is because of a flawed and doctrinaire court decision that ignored the consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Three years after landmark court decision, Louisville still struggles with school desegregation] Reference
It is only the incorrigible doctrinaire who refuses to sympathize with the illogical processes by which the world is gradually being made better. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
But in his heart of hearts, Gordon Brown has to be quite uncomfortable with a very conservative, very doctrinaire government in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2007] Reference
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