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
Other judges are not so clinical or doctrinaire about it.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2024
But, ever curious, Lidholm didn’t stay a doctrinaire serialist for long, and the 18-minute “Poesis” is an exploration of elemental sound and stark drama without reliance on stylistic rules.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2023
The boy and his father were not of one mind; their observations were made in the spirit of different parties: the father, I suspect, was a royalist,—the son, I am sure, was a young doctrinaire.
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton
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