Sentences with phrase «in doctrinaire»

He states, «The irony in all of this is that I do not subscribe to the theories of climate change when presented in a doctrinaire way.

The irony in all of this is that I do not subscribe to the theories of climate change when presented in a doctrinaire way.

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.

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I went to a similar school, and feel pretty confident in saying that Kenney would be regarded by the staff there as just the sort of product that they wanted to turn out — aggressive and doctrinaire.

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

Indeed, in Process and Reality Whitehead generally has critical remarks about Leibniz, the main objections being Leibniz's mentalism and doctrinaire rationalism.

We know that the conflict of Muhammad with the Jews in Medina was largely political in nature, whereas the conflict with Christians had a doctrinaire dimension in that it centered on the nature and being of God.

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.»

If we are to survive as a people we must recapture the noetic and pneumatic insights gained during the founding period (e.g. the pneumatic reality of the Great Awakening, the noetic reality of the form of government, etc.) and we must repair the egophanic deformation that has resulted in the collapse of the symbols into the doctrinaire «system.»

Granted, reverent Bible readers regularly see in texts practical lessons which are really there, and which doctrinaire students miss.

For even if one avoids commitment and merely drifts with life's tide, or even if the commitment is merely to hold to one's own past or absolutize one's personality, the resultant selfhood is decisively qualified by the mood of inauthenticity in the one case, or by one or the other form of doctrinaire self - assertion in the other.

At the Interdenominational Theological Center — a cluster of seven predominantly black seminaries in Atlanta — we feel that While such a pattern will not be rigid or doctrinaire or even «classic,» it seems to have several aspects which, viewed together, could be called the objectives of the seminary inasmuch as they serve to integrate...

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

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

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.

The reality is 65 million people voted for Trump... and while a lot of those votes came from people who were legitimately frustrated with both political parties and wanted someone to shake up the system, and a lot of votes cam from traditional doctrinaire Republican voters who held their nose and voted for the guy because they wanted a tax cut, and other voters were pseudo-moralistic Evangelical hypocrites who wanted to reward McConnell for STEALING Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat, there were a whole lot of Trump voters — including a lot of voters from Pennsylvania's «T» — who voted for Trump because they are racist, white supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again»).

To some mullahs in Algeria, who have denounced her «for running with naked legs in front of thousands of men,» the answer is just as doctrinaire.

Her Olympic year began with dislocation when Algeria's army deposed the president and stopped elections in order to keep doctrinaire Muslims out of power.

«This issue has zero to do with birth control, which is easily available, and everything to do with Senator Gillibrand's doctrinaire liberal agenda, which is in direct contradiction to our Constitutional freedoms.»

As Luis da Vinha argues, Ronald Reagan moved from the doctrinaire anti-Communism of his mid-Western background to recognizing Gorbachev as a partner in the process of nuclear disarmament in which they both believed.

All the more so given the sceptical British distrust political grandiosity and anything that sounds too fancy, which is why Lord Woolton, the post-war Conservative party chairman, insisted on referring to Labour as «the socialists» during the 1950s in order to make the party seem alien and doctrinaire.

In spotlighting the mostly sweet - natured but still slightly bruised give - and - take of this unusual codependent relationship, director Zachary Heinzerling's movie sidesteps doctrinaire concepts of nonfiction art films and expands its core audience, imparting glancing lessons about the uncertainty of love and the almost necessary dance of responsibility and care - taking involved.

Critical pedagogy departs somewhat from constructivism, first in its emphasis on the affective - normative domain at the expense of the cognitive - empirical domain - it is more interested in engaging students in understanding the world as it ought to be than in how it is - and, second, in its acceptance of the hierarchical, judgmental classroom, where the teacher's role is not to facilitate value - free inquiry but instead to use the bully pulpit to preach doctrinaire gospel, with schools performing the function not of political socialization but of counter-socialization.

Albers's quasi-scientific color theory dominated the painting curriculum, but Mr. Noland gravitated toward the less doctrinaire Bolotowsky and fell under the influence of Paul Klee, whose colorful surrealist fantasies loomed large in Mr. Noland's first exhibition, at a Paris gallery in 1949.

And yet for such softly lit, touchingly observed and sweetly dispatched little pictures — Gwen John - like in their quietude — they actually constitute a rather ballsy provocation to this most doctrinaire of minimal artists with his strictures on specific objects and the presumed exhaustion of painting.

But I began to see that there is even a point in being doctrinaire and rigid about the hundred miles, for you learn the value of what you are missing, but more importantly, what you have.

I found them poorly responsive and unreasonable, jaw - dropping doctrinaire in their responses and «reasoning».