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The phrase "a narrow man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has limited views or is not open-minded.
Example: "In discussions about social issues, he often comes across as a narrow man, unwilling to consider perspectives different from his own."
Alternatives: "a closed-minded person" or "a narrow-minded individual".
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He was a narrow man, like a shadow, the sort of man who slips under doors and through keyholes, or else how could he have known that our dog, Lassie, slept in our bedroom?
The emperor's distaste for his lot had been augmented by the arrival as governor of a British soldier, Sir Hudson Lowe, a narrow man who felt the task of detaining that great spirit of the age very heavily upon him.
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He was separated from the French troops by a narrow No Man's Land and described the landscape as: "Strewn with shattered trees, the ground ploughed up by shellfire, a wilderness of earth, tree-roots and tattered uniforms".
The grand parade for Solor and Gamzatti's betrothal starts in front of a drop-curtain, in a narrow no-man's-land.
But, I'm left wondering: Since these workers are all from a narrow demographic — men and women in their early- and mid-twenties — isn't it a bit simplistic to compare the rate to city rates that encompass a general population?
Martin Schibbye, 31, and Johan Persson, 29, share a narrow bed, one man's head beside the other's feet.
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