doctrinaire

And they’ve been trying to have a conversation that isn’t hijacked by the most doctrinaire voices in the room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

“Despite all evidence to the contrary, Marshall still believed,” in Mr. Dikötter’s words, that the Communists “were not doctrinaire ideologists, but merely rural reformers who could help shape a democratic China.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

"The modernism that was around before the 1980s was very grey, restrictive, utilitarian and quite doctrinaire really," Farrell said.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

But the idea is first stolen by one of her colleagues, then shot down by another as insufficiently doctrinaire.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Other people could recognise the face and the sanctity of morality where it penetrated politics, taking the shape of sweeping principle, as in Emancipation, Free Trade, and so many other doctrinaire questions.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton