Sentences with word «doctrinaire»

«This book should be read more as an exploration of a series of investment topics as opposed to some sort of doctrinaire investment philosophy,» Viskanta writes.

Some of the less doctrinaire of AGW proponents have backed off the claim that air temperature determines water temperature.

I'm not doctrinaire about what measures constitute value.

Personifying the person to be reached is a helpful staffing point, and a valuable corrective to doctrinaire approaches to outreach and worship.

I'm a value investor, and one that is not doctrinaire about a narrow set of principles.

Contrarily, the evidence of our century suggests that the totalitarian impulse is implicit rather than accidental in doctrinaire irreligion which adores its shrunken vision of humankind.

In those days many of us thought in a more doctrinaire way about social classes than we do now.

Sound doctrine, of course, is not the same as doctrinaire stubbornness, nor a facade for secondhand faith.

And she attacked Gillibrand as «our former moderate upstate congresswoman» who entered a «political witness protection program» upon being appointed to the Senate, and «emerged as the most doctrinaire liberal in the Senate.»

Rail: We all know André Breton was very autocratic as a person and very doctrinaire as a leader.

Following St. Francis, for example, means being «more interested in alleviating poverty and helping the afflicted than in staking out doctrinaire positions on things like contraception.»

People want to remedy that situation but are not nearly so doctrinaire as powerful interests and political elites.

Ross said she was never doctrinaire and cheered art from Henri Matisse to David Smith to Willem de Kooning.

Those books did, of course, attract criticism from doctrinaire ultra-Leftists.

He said he felt that too many free - traders are «too dogmatic and too doctrinaire.»

His plan includes a method of «getting around the gatekeepers» who he describes as «doctrinaire people who make it hard to get balance into the classroom» by producing handouts that «that a parent or student can bring to class.»

As Johnson has clearly stated, biology informed by the recognition of intelligent design is «theism «friendly» in a way that doctrinaire naturalism is not.

«The waivers help with an incredibly doctrinaire law that didn't recognize the realities of the situation,» said Little.

«The waivers help with an incredibly doctrinaire law that didn't recognize the realities of the situation,» he said.

n the conclusion of his 1983 review of a Lee Krasner retrospective held at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Robert Hughes wrote: «This is an intensely moving exhibition, and it will suggest to all but the most doctrinaire how many revisions of postwar American art history are still waiting to be made.»

This is not to say that he was uncritical of organized and doctrinaire forms of religion, but it is to warn ourselves to put aside traditional Christian stereotypes of a legalistic and barren Judaism.

The course set by Cameron and Osborne is not just doctrinaire.

But the IMF has become far less doctrinaire under the leadership of Christine Lagarde, the former French finance minister.

I'm not necessarily doctrinaire about these matters, but surely there's room for discussion here.

Order returns in autumn as the air with libertarian chill grows doctrinaire.

One must realize that this applies not only to the most fundamentalistic Christian but also to the most doctrinaire Marxist - Leninist.

He was not a narrow doctrinaire creature who could not allow doctrinal differences, but eventually doctrine became a life and death issue in the Confessing Church's struggle in Germany.

This should not surprise us, since conservatism entails the rejection of abstract and doctrinaire theoretical approaches to political life.

In this description of the southern outlook we are again probing into the deeper layers of southern consciousness in an effort to understand why alternatives to doctrinaire regionalism and the resultant fighting of the Civil War were not pursued.

The accusation is often leveled that such questions betray a rigidity of outlook, all a tad doctrinaire and rather old - fashioned.

Waldstein is rightly dissatisfied with the prevailing doctrinaire secularism.

One irony of recent American politics is that the exodus of wage - earning whites from the Democratic party has tended to make the rump of white Democratic voters more affluent, better educated, and more doctrinaire leftist.

They could not, on the other hand, be progressives, doctrinaire equalitarians, or revolutionary socialists,» and «they measured all political institutions by the facilities they afforded men to fulfill their moral destinies.»

He was wrong, of course, but not boringly doctrinaire.

Some of the more authoritarian of our Asian religions might provide a sufficiently doctrinaire model but their small following in comparison with Protestant fundamentalism virtually rules them out.

Rather, he depicts Roosevelt as a major force in shifting the historic roles of the two political parties, whereby Democrats abandoned the habits of nineteenth - century individualism for «a spiteful and ultimately self - destructive inactive protectionism» and Republicans traded the moral paternalism of nineteenth - century Whigs for a «narrow and doctrinaire brand of «free enterprise.

Creationists are presented as open - minded questioners and public school teachers as doctrinaire fools.