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

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

Nothing can be of any assistance here except a decisive renunciation of those epistemological positions which contradict the results of psychology, and which are themselves only doctrinaire consequences from other positions.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various