The American Heritage dictionary defines a Babbitt as "a member of the middle class whose attachment to its business and social ideals is such as to make that person a model of narrow-mindedness and self-satisfaction".
This section describes the overall method used for the dynamic simulations carried out with the software IDA ICE 4 on a model of a typical narrow office building with perimeter cell rooms.
His work is required reading in many French universities, even though it seems to be a model of American pragmatism, preferring narrow-seeming "How?" and "Who, exactly?" questions to the deeper "Why?" and "What?" supposedly favored by French theory.
The species-by-species approach has been criticized for offering too narrow a model of natural resource management.
The arts are important to society but the model of narrow instrumentalism that we currently have is just not working.
Kaiser Permanente is extremely popular, and experts consider its style of care a model of high-quality efficiency -- but narrow networks in the Medicaid-style plans have become an increasing source of frustration, particularly for people who have long-standing relationships with doctors who won't accept the payments in their new plans.
In a model of the design, it is flanked by narrow corridors and looks a bit like leftover storage space.
Justice Samuel Alito Jr., writing the 5-to-4 majority opinion, misleadingly presented the court as a model of restraint and its ruling as a narrow one.
These descriptions broadly conform to Janet's (1920) model of narrowing of attention or 'contraction of the field of consciousness', although Yealland did not make this link explicitly.
The annulus geometry selected for the study is a simplified model of the narrow annulus of a typical nuclear reactor design.
To identify a model for stock in narrow bodies of shallow water in the tropic, this study selected young stage of S. javus to examine the unit in sedentary species.
