heterodoxy
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About the closest they’ll come to heterodoxy is keeping silent about various unpopular stances associated with the party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Seehorn’s Kim is a Type A striver with a rebellious streak; she wants to do work more meaningful than representing a regional bank and finds something alluring in Jimmy’s reckless heterodoxy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
“This is a worldwide, but certainly American, trend toward heterodoxy — toward individuals cooking up their own spiritual or religious stew and cooking it up their way,” Burklo said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2019
Hayat studies the history of social movements, with a focus on the nineteenth century, and he argued that, despite their political heterodoxy, the gilets jaunes are remarkably unified.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2018
But he had little veneration for mere authority, and the significant veering of his religious views toward heterodoxy was for years an obstacle to his advance.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
But there are all sorts of complexities and heterodoxies that are suffocated by uncomplicated embrace.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2022
To some degree, “populism” is another word for heterodoxies that seem doomed to fail.
From Economist ● Jul. 20, 2017
I stayed because I was incredibly curious and thought at least I could work on my novel, a Western set in “the American subconscious,” a Jungian wonderland of heterodoxies.
From Salon ● May 31, 2015
Who will be courageous enough to confront the public with such brave heterodoxies as “Not all cultures are equally conducive to human flourishing”? The Intellectual Dark Web, that’s who.
From Slate
His aspect showed no lack of zeal to maintain his heterodoxies, even at the stake.
From From Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
