small-minded

I counted on her small-minded interference in the day-to-day running of the school to keep attention diverted elsewhere, while I searched for the information I needed.”

Now, as civil rights are being beaten back to … backwardness by small-minded politicians, there’s a timely element to this perfectly decent, good-hearted, unsurprisingly sentimental miniseries.

Never has a president been so vindictive and so small-minded.

“I’m sure there are small-minded people in Manhattan, but our show just wasn’t focused on that part,” he says.

But it’s not just the small — and small-minded, and small-hearted — wealthy libertarian or right-wing elite.