Francine Prose, one of the six who withdrew from the Gala, wrote in the Guardian on Tuesday that although she admires "the courage with which Charlie Hebdo has insisted on its right to provoke and challenge the doctrinaire, I don't feel that their work has the importance – the necessity – that would deserve such an honor".
Oh the irony of him, generous and free-thinking, being replaced by a representative of a party so solipsistic and doctrinaire.
Going into 2013, however, the PM's projection of himself as calm, kindly and above all pragmatic is strained by the record of a government that increasingly appears shrill, ungenerous and doctrinaire.
Never a doctrinaire feminist and widely versed in literature, poetry, theory and politics, shared, until his death in 2004, with her husband, she invented an aesthetic of redemption: a narrative of the feminine from victimisation to empowerment.
Mr Mourdock, by contrast, is much more doctrinaire.
So if she were replaced by a doctrinaire conservative, there would be a change, but not necessarily a dramatic one.In abortion cases, she sided with the liberals after 1992, when she voted to uphold the core principle of Roe v Wade (this established a constitutional right to abortion based on the right to privacy).
Their selection suggests that Mr Obama is indeed serious about tackling climate change, but not doctrinaire in his approach.Ms McCarthy already works at the EPA, where she is in charge of air quality.
Though he may have been the last major British architect to be politically driven, he was one of the first modernists to challenge the kind of doctrinaire town planning then prevailing.
She by no means fits the image of a doctrinaire advocate of political Islam.
Gordon Brown says the "big choice" is between him and a Tory party whose doctrinaire cuts would hamper recovery and harm the country's future.
But the hunch is more emotional than ideological indeed, the thought that the drastic public-spending cuts a Tory government might make were motivated by doctrinaire conviction, rather than necessity, would diminish the party's appeal rather than enhance it.
