Examples of 'doctrinaire' in a sentence

Meaning of "doctrinaire"

doctrinaire (adjective) - Doctrinaire describes a person who is inflexibly committed to a doctrine or set of beliefs, often to the point of being close-minded or dogmatic
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  • A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
  • In France, in 1815-30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.
  • Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.

How to use "doctrinaire" in a sentence

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I am not taking a doctrinaire stand on any of this.
The students were more cordial and less doctrinaire.
This is not merely a doctrinaire admonition of a privacy advocate.
I think it is difficult to recommend doctrinaire solutions.
They are doctrinaire and rely on sanctimony while ignoring facts.
To raise such issues is not doctrinaire or aggressive.
Even doctrinaire libertarians do not think that the market is perfect.
Its just sometimes he is too doctrinaire for me.
To the doctrinaire aristocrats.
Keynes opposed the gold standard on doctrinaire grounds.
Their doctrinaire education.
We are not locked into doctrinaire formulas.
Propose manual doctrinaire for the safety and protection of the aquatic spaces.
Shall confront the world with new doctrinaire.
Only a hopeless doctrinaire would say so.

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It avoids words which have a utopian and doctrinaire sound.
They are doctrinaire socialists.
Nor did he himself submit to doctrinaire guidance.
Mises was a complete doctrinaire and a relentless and implacable fighter for his doctrine.
Let us try not to be doctrinaire.
He has not always been a doctrinaire conservative over the last few years.
We all choose our things about which to be irrationally doctrinaire in this world.
Sanders is a doctrinaire libertarian.
I had come expecting to struggle with a doctrinaire Marxist.
Very few people take a doctrinaire position for or against all biotechnology.
Doctrine becomes doctrinaire.
He was a doctrinaire disciple of Marcellus.
The left is doctrinaire.
The doctrinaire and operational center of the Bank came to be economic liberalization.
The method used is doctrinaire method.
Reinsurance is an institution eminently international, subject to technical standards, legal business, and own doctrinaire.
Maybeck was not doctrinaire however.
Fortunately most Americans are not doctrinaire.
This would be doctrinaire nonsense.
Djindjic remained pragmatic, never doctrinaire.
It is not easy to trot out a doctrinaire position in this regard.
An internationalism that was in its way of being, not a political position of doctrinaire sectarianism.
Yuri Khanon is a doctrinaire and an adherent of canons.
The Community social dialogue and the issues doctrinaire reasons.
Moreover, they are doctrinaire about many things.
Members opposite, we are not doctrinaire.
The current imperialist, feudal and doctrinaire cultural influence should be rooted out.
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.
Adam Smith was not a doctrinaire advocate of laissez-faire.
The short answer is short-term electoral calculations and doctrinaire economics.
We must put an end to the doctrinaire practice of freezing the Organization 's budget.
He did maintain the later-discredited phlogiston hypothesis, but was not doctrinaire about it.
The opposition was led by the Doctrinaire group and Royer-Collard.
This is why we must show pragmatism rather than an ultra-liberal doctrinaire approach.
We must put an end to the doctrinaire practice of freezing the Organization & apos ; s budget.

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