Sentence examples for closed thought from inspiring English sources

To Dacre, the BBC is a "closed thought system operating a kind of Orwellian Newspeak … perverting political discourse and disenfranchising countless millions".

If one were looking for the most successful and internally consistent "closed thought system" in the British media landscape, one would have to turn to the Mail.

The corporation, he says, though it "glories in being open-minded, is, in fact, a closed thought system operating a kind of Orwellian Newspeak … this, I would argue, is perverting political discourse and disenfranchising countless millions who don't subscribe to the BBC's world view".

If the site tried to block harassment, it might wind up muting not the racists and the misogynists who express closed-minded thoughts but those so angered by the tweets that they respond with force.

From birth, children are indoctrinated with this closed system of thought, which of course becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.

This closed system of thought is what Marxism is now remembered as: a language which can only talk about the things it expects to talk about.

It is a closed system of thought, viewed as infallible if performed correctly; healing confirms the power of Truth, but its absence derives from the failure, specifically the bad thoughts, of individuals.

Preferences and erotic interests can change over time, as one becomes more open or closed to certain thoughts and behaviors.

Airline delays used to mean wandering zombielike around an airport, bored, stressed-out, eating mediocre food (or not eating at all if the restaurants and bars had closed early) and thinking dark thoughts.

At night they lay on hard beds without pillows and, behind their closed eyelids, their unsettled thoughts ran in opposite directions.

How do we move social media from cheerleaders' chorus or recruiting sergeant to something that opens minds, rather than magnifying the thoughts of closed ones?