doctrinaire

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A fun game to play is to ask your most politically doctrinaire friends if there’s a policy they secretly support that cuts against their usual views.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

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

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

After State Department officials raised the legal issue in one situation room meeting, Kissinger said scornfully: "We shouldn't decide this on such doctrinaire grounds."

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2023

For all the bipartisan praise, Mrs. Korologos was a loyal if not doctrinaire Reaganite, following the legacy of her predecessor, Bill Brock, another moderate former senator from Tennessee.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

But in the latter case, she writes on political philosophy like a statesman—in the former there is much of the doctrinaire.

From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick