doctrinaire
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“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
His harping on this point could come across as doctrinaire.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
Other judges are not so clinical or doctrinaire about it.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2024
Have you not discovered, have I never betrayed, what a narrow doctrinaire I am, under a thin disguise of levity?
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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