All 3 Uses of
orthodox
in
Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Early on certain professors at the medical school—especially the eminent anthropologist Arthur Kleinman and the equally eminent child psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg—had taken a shine to Farmer and licensed his unorthodox habits of attendance.†
Chpt 2.11
- What I don't like about Marxist literature is ... the arrogance, the petty infighting, the dishonesty, the desire for self-promotion, the orthodoxy.
Chpt 4.21 *orthodoxy = commonly accepted beliefs that are supposed to be accepted without question
- I can't stand the orthodoxy, and I'll bet that's one reason that science did not flourish in the former Soviet Union."†
Chpt 4.21
Definition:
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(orthodox) normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)