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  • When I open a book, the words sort themselves into narrow-minded single file on the page; the mirror-image poems erase themselves half-formed in my mind.†   (source)
  • And whereas their offspring are narrow-minded, if cunning, Lethrblaka have all the intelligence of a dragon.†   (source)
  • Not that Heath was hateful or anything like that, but he was a typical teenage Okie boy, which tended to mean narrow-minded homophobe.†   (source)
  • ...said I gave her a raw deal, I was the villain because I overexpected, I was a narrow-minded, arrogant chauvinist—her exact words—Christ, I ask you, is it chauvinistic to expect six hours of work out of somebody, when you're paying for eight—†   (source)
  • And you, you are a pompous, narrow-minded old—" Jean Louise stopped, fascinated by the tears running down Alexandra's cheeks.†   (source)
  • That man is the most narrow minded, suspicious, distrustful person on the entire planet.†   (source)
  • He is not stubborn, not narrow-minded, not lazy, not stupid.†   (source)
  • You don't want to be narrow minded, do you?†   (source)
  • These narrow-minded reactionaries are still fighting us.†   (source)
  • Enthusiasm for liberty is often infected with narrow-minded bigotry and distrust.†   (source)
  • But now he can make this all my fault, my narrow-mindedness or fuddy-duddiness or whatever he wants to call it.†   (source)
  • He watched Chief Clumly (Clumly saw) with remote fascination partly because he was different from the others—a narrow-minded, stiff-hearted old man, a mystery.†   (source)
  • To Yurii Andreievich this gloomy and unsociable giant, soulless and narrow-minded, seemed subnormal, almost a degenerate.†   (source)
  • But then — ahem — one mustn't be narrow-minded.†   (source)
  • I want to tell you that you're being narrow-minded.†   (source)
  • Stephen feels hemmed in by the strictures of Irish life, by family and politics and education and religion and narrow-mindedness; as we know by now, the antidote to limitations and shackles is freedom.†   (source)
  • I am NOT narrow-minded.†   (source)
  • I was way too acquainted with the narrow-minded, "our way is the only right way" ideas of the People of Faith.†   (source)
  • The fanatics who went around preaching that all structures must be modern were just as narrow-minded as the hidebound conservatives who demanded that we employ nothing but historical styles.†   (source)
  • Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.†   (source)
  • He knew as well as she did that they were making fun of his spats and he was filled with bitterness at the narrow-mindedness of Williamsburg.†   (source)
  • You feel I have been narrow-minded and suspicious?†   (source)
  • Why do you persist in thinking me so narrow minded?†   (source)
  • Haven't the ignorant, narrow-minded curs reviled me as an enemy of the people?†   (source)
  • But you do think I'm obstinate and narrow-minded?†   (source)
  • Because it is such a narrow-minded way of looking at things.†   (source)
  • You say my point of view is narrow-minded, so I must be so, too.†   (source)
  • Nobody was narrow-minded enough to rake up against her the half-forgotten facts of her father's past and her own origin.†   (source)
  • After all, some of these fellows are so darn cautious and narrow-minded that they're prejudiced against a fellow that talks right out in meeting.†   (source)
  • "Of all the narrow-minded excuses," McKisco looked around to establish a derisive liaison with some one else, but without success.†   (source)
  • And so from shock to shock you live, A hollow, pale affirmative... The hour's up...and roused from rest One hundred children of the blest Cheat you a word or two with feet That down the noisy aisle-ways beat... Forget on narrow-minded earth The Mighty Yawn that gave you birth.†   (source)
  • Other possibilities had been in him, possibilities sacrificed, one by one, to Zeena's narrow-mindedness and ignorance.†   (source)
  • The agents that the Bureau could command varied all the way from unselfish philanthropists to narrow-minded busybodies and thieves; and even though it be true that the average was far better than the worst, it was the occasional fly that helped spoil the ointment.†   (source)
  • "Naturally, but of course, to be sure," he was always prompt to say, so that no one would think that, although he might be quite refined, he was rather narrow-minded.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, as this young man was in the eye of the law not a man, but a thing, all these superior qualifications were subject to the control of a vulgar, narrow-minded, tyrannical master.†   (source)
  • Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.†   (source)
  • In proportion as the principle of the division of labor is more extensively applied, the workman becomes more weak, more narrow-minded, and more dependent.†   (source)
  • My dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.†   (source)
  • Isabel's chief dread in life at this period of her development was that she should appear narrow-minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should really be so.†   (source)
  • But I wished her to have a friend for life,—who would cherish her, who would do her more justice than a coarse and narrow-minded brother, that she has always lavished her affections on.†   (source)
  • My young lady asked some aid of her when she first came; but Mr. Heathcliff told her to follow her own business, and let his daughter-in-law look after herself; and Zillah willingly acquiesced, being a narrow-minded, selfish woman.†   (source)
  • Do you think I am narrow-minded?†   (source)
  • His father was a narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son.†   (source)
  • National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.†   (source)
  • Thus pleasantly conversing on the favorable circumstances of our position as compared with those of past pilgrims and of narrow-minded ones at the present day, we soon found ourselves at the foot of the Hill Difficulty.†   (source)
  • Resentment at what he considered Judith's obstinacy was blended with mortification at the career he had since reaching the lake, and, as is usual with the vulgar and narrow-minded, he was more disposed to reproach others with his failures than to censure himself.†   (source)
  • Of course whatever novelty there may have been at first in my society has quite passed away, and you see me as I am—a dull, obstinate, narrow-minded old woman.†   (source)
  • Narrow-minded?†   (source)
  • Narrow-minded!†   (source)
  • But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;— more narrow-minded and selfish.†   (source)
  • He blushed for the narrow-minded counsel which he was obliged to expose.†   (source)
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