WHEN even the president of Pakistan chides a group of Britons for its hidebound attitudes to women, it becomes hard to deny a problem exists.
Once Wexford and his associates expand the range of their research, there is also a racist and snobbish old bat who has "loglike swollen legs" and some terribly hidebound attitudes.
But overcrowding and underemployment, the clash between liberalized and hidebound attitudes, a decay of values, vigilante policemen going after private partying with a hockey stick instead of alertly patrolling beats to prevent rape and other crime – all these have turned India's showpiece into a city where dog can survive only by eating dog.
To get around their own hidebound attitudes, many European global players simply hide the ball when it comes to adopting U.S. pay habits.
But with paper tigers as its targets and an utterly conventional attitude to the world as hidebound as the one it believes it is satirizing, what can talented actors do?
But Constance cannot shake off her upbringing before the watershed of the 1960s - "I remain hidebound by the pre-pill morality and my parents' fossilised attitudes".
The attitude can cast regulators and the medical establishment in the role of hidebound protectors of entrenched interests, rather than guardians of public safety — which makes the regulator's job that much more complicated.
In quotes from the book: That attitude of smugness held sway in Portland for several generations, keeping the place hidebound and insular.
In keeping with his status as the former chief executive of ExxonMobil, a hidebound business empire that traces its roots to John D. Rockefeller, Tillerson has generally adopted a dismissive attitude toward reporters.
But baseball, with its rigid attitude and stubborn pride, reinforces another lesson to kids everywhere: even if everyone does the right thing, hidebound institutions will spoil the happy ending.
Authoritative! Hidebound!
