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

An interesting viewpoint, and one we have also heard from officials of a more recent administration: Obeying the law is doctrinaire?

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2023

While Stefanovich did find real commonality between Rachmaninoff and Ligeti, often in the cross rhythms and irregular counterpoint, much of what makes Rachmaninoff modern is simply our less doctrinaire ideas of modernity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2023

She was a creature of peace; a little doctrinaire who supposed that, in the inverted moral world in which she walked, right made might.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth