doctrinairein a sentence
- doctrinaire insistence that...
- The American government isn't going to get stuck on any set of fancy doctrinaire ideas.† (source)
- One so garish-albeit compiled with extreme conviction-it would be laughed out of our most rigidly doctrinaire courts.† (source)
- I could recall my father's voice, doctrinaire, relentless.† (source)
- Nothing doctrinaire.† (source)
- Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. (source)
- a doctrinaire failure to adapt to new circumstances
- The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to create aged youth.† (source)
- Where the ultras were very proud, the doctrinarians were rather ashamed.† (source)
- Beginning with 1818, doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade.† (source)
- The word _doctrinaire_—word full of terror to the British mind—reappeared from time to time between his explosions.† (source)
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- Standing well at court, whether the king regnant was of the older or younger branch, whether the government was doctrinaire liberal, or conservative; looked upon by all as a man of talent, since those who have never experienced a political check are generally so regarded; hated by many, but warmly supported by others, without being really liked by anybody, M. de Villefort held a high position in the magistracy, and maintained his eminence like a Harlay or a Mole.† (source)
- In all that is said by the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of anything but effect, we seek the cause.† (source)
- It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which was displeased at criticism and furious at protection.† (source)
- Since the revolution, everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian.† (source)
- Their fathers in the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern them at all; the pure blood of principle ran in their veins.† (source)
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