doctrinaire
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The aim was to expand U.S. influence in Europe, promote ideas suppressed behind the Iron Curtain and, more specifically, expose Soviet culture as staid and doctrinaire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
His harping on this point could come across as doctrinaire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
I’ve just spent a week tramping across Venice, a city of more than 250 churches, and where did I encounter the most doctrinaire catechism?
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
Now a State is not a person, and is becoming less so every day, and the difficulty, which Professor Spenser Wilkinson indicates, is a doctrinaire difficulty, not a real one.
From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell
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