indoctrinationin a sentence
- She wants to replace parental indoctrination of children with government indoctrination.
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Semitism, Natalie and her parents had come to the Jewish homeland, only to face a wave of brutal stabbings by young men bred and indoctrinated to hate.†
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indoctrinated = taught beliefs in a manner that gets them accepted without critical question
- Finally, through intense indoctrination, beatings, and desensitization, its army cultivated and celebrated extreme brutality in its soldiers.† (source)
- All of this talk about Christians who weren't Christian enough, secularists indoctrinating our youth, art exhibits insulting our faith, and persecution by the elites made the world a scary and foreign place.† (source)
- Malleus Maleficarum—or The Witches' Hammer—indoctrinated the world to "the dangers of freethinking women" and instructed the clergy how to locate, torture, and destroy them.† (source)
- Charm Week was the centerpiece of the debutantes' indoctrination.† (source)
- He might be testing me, to see how deep my indoctrination had really gone.† (source)
- The lights dim and the indoctrination begins.† (source)
- More like indoctrinated.† (source)
- This is only Indoc [Indoctrination].† (source)
- It starts with "indoc" or indoctrination, which is designed to introduce candidates to what will be required.† (source)
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- And now we were going for runs along the beach, trying to get in shape for the first week of Indoctrination.† (source)
- You never cease indoctrinating.† (source)
- But on this expedition he had been cast in the role of invincible guide, there to look after me and the other clients; we had been specifically indoctrinated not to question our guides' judgment.† (source)
- He would have to graduate with satisfactory grades before heading to a twelve-day BUD/S—Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL—indoctrination course on Coronado Island, across the bay from San Diego, California.† (source)
- They think school's a despotic system of indoctrination, designed to crush the spirit and stamp out creativity.† (source)
- It's 7:30 on Friday night, and a seminal moment of Brown's right-minded indoctrination is about to commence: the all-important diversity orientation session.† (source)
- They have a size to them, a natural stamina that mocks his own bible-school indoctrination even as it draws him to the noise.† (source)
- And it was indeed an objective Peckem who gazed at Colonel Scheisskopf encouragingly and resumed his indoctrination with an attitude of magnanimous forgiveness.† (source)
- She tossed off the statement in a matter-of-fact manner, indoctrinated by her Islamic teachers.† (source)
- They were bringing the brightest madrassa students back to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for a decade of indoctrination, then encouraging them to take four wives when they came home and breed like rabbits.† (source)
- He wasn't teaching anymore, he was indoctrinating.† (source)
- For the next few months our new brother is to undergo a period of intense study and indoctrination under the guidance of Brother Hambro.† (source)
- The man who executed Bourne in Tam Quan took his name and agreed to be trained for an operation that we called Treadstone Seventy-one, after a building on New York's Seventy-first Street, where he went through a brutal indoctrination program.† (source)
- Indoctrination had told them (correctly) that their only hope of going Earthside again was to capture warrens and pacify them.† (source)
- The officers of Alessandro's brigade were absent for indoctrination at headquarters, and the noncommissioned officers were acutely aware that their men were badly armed.† (source)
- After centuries of efforts to curb man's innate brutality, after centuries of teaching, training and indoctrination with the gentle and the humane!† (source)
- I was indoctrinated into all of the pointless condolence rituals at age eight, and I came to realize that they never really change.† (source)
- If necessary, Mr. Braselton or I will assume Mr. McLean's responsibilities of helping to indoctrinate the freshmen in the honor system.† (source)
- I suppose it was only because my own wolf indoctrination had been so complete, and of such a staggeringly inaccurate nature, that it took me so long to account for the healthy state of the wolves in the apparent absence of any game worthy of their reputation and physical abilities.† (source)
- At the end of the war Liberius came back as a lieutenant hero with three medals, and of course he was a thoroughly indoctrinated Bolshevik delegate from the front.† (source)
- He thinks I've been indoctrinated like everybody else in the camp.† (source)
- Nobody is more indoctrinated than the indoctrinator.† (source)
- Here's how it would go, after Hazel indoctrinated a kid: ADULT: "Baby, where did you get this?† (source)
- Some guards, intoxicated by absolute power and indoctrinated in racism and disgust for POWs, fell easily into sadism.† (source)
- Sarawa had told me so, and it beat me why I'd been left alone...unless they knew...unless they were indoctrinated...unless I really was in the hands of off-duty Taliban warriors.† (source)
- In Japan's militaristic society, all citizens, from earliest childhood, were relentlessly indoctrinated with the lesson that to be captured in war was intolerably shameful.† (source)
- Every Navy SEAL is supremely confident, because we're indoctrinated with a belief in victory at all costs; a conviction that no earthly force can withstand our thunderous assault on the battlefield.† (source)
- They have neodogs now that are indoctrinated from puppyhood to observe and evade without blowing their tops at the mere sight or smell of a Bug.† (source)
- Indoctrinated, embittered, vengeful.† (source)
- These troops were not only crack riot troops, best peace enforcers for city work F.N. had; they also had been indoctrinated and drugged.† (source)
- I was in what is known as Indoc—or Indoctrination.† (source)
- If I ran a high school, I would include stuff like this in the first-day indoctrination.† (source)
- On the first morning of indoctrination into BUD/S, we had to do the physical screening test again.† (source)
- In boot camp, they don't just tell you, they indoctrinate you.† (source)
- If those are ever used, it's not for indoctrination purposes.† (source)
- They'll be glad to indoctrinate you fully in its glories and triumphs.† (source)
- He was considered promising material, and after in-depth indoctrination was sent to the London School of Economics for graduate study.† (source)
- He had been my teacher during my period of indoctrination and now I realized that I shouldn't have come.† (source)
- We had been preconditioned for forty hours of duty (two revolutions of Planet P) through forced sleep, elevated blood sugar count, and hypno indoctrination, and of course the suits are self-contained for personal needs.† (source)
- The myth of Novgorod matched its reality; it was, indeed, an advanced indoctrination center for the most gifted of comrades-as they were given to understand, yet none really understood, for Novgorod was rarely spoken about except in whispers.† (source)
- We did not receive a college education at the Institute, we received an indoctrination, and all our courses were designed to make us malleable, unimaginative, uninquisitive citizens of the republic, impregnable to ideas—or thought—unsanctioned by authority.† (source)
- The papa of Mademoiselle Noemie, however, had apparently on this occasion been vigorously indoctrinated, and he showed a certain tremulous eagerness to cultivate unexpected opportunities.† (source)
- A few agents of the Thought Police moved always among them, spreading false rumors and marking down and eliminating the few individuals who were judged capable of becoming dangerous; but no attempt was made to indoctrinate them with the ideology of the Party.† (source)
- I. You indoctrinate republicans!† (source)
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"Pagans" were literally unindoctrinated country-folk who clung to the old, rural religions of Nature worship.†
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standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unindoctrinated means not and reverses the meaning of indoctrinated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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