Sentence examples for doctrinaire about from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chen said he was not doctrinaire about his religion.

Even before this, I had become less doctrinaire about markets.

Moreover, Hayek was not doctrinaire about the importance of political freedom.

I think fiction has a way of doing this without being doctrinaire about it.

Today's economists tend to be open-minded about content, but doctrinaire about form.

I think it can, as long as you're not too doctrinaire about anything.

I'd go further: movie critics shouldn't be plugging the M.P.A.A. ratings system, which (as seen in Kirby Dick's remarkable documentary "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," from 2006) often substitutes narrow moralism and doctrinaire bias, about movies and about life, for informed thought.

The screenwriter Bert Royal has shrewdly spotted two modern American trends among the young: a passion to gossip about and document every tiny detail of their lives, and a new wave of doctrinaire conventionalism about their behaviour.

And in that way, Sylvia -- like so many other women who refuse to call themselves victims -- is a formidable challenge to doctrinaire thinking about the nature of domestic violence and how to combat it.

I first read the verse of Edward Thomas – who died at the Battle of Arras in April 1917 - at a time when I had been encouraged to believe all kinds of doctrinaire nonsense about the ineluctable advance of Modernism, with writers such as Thomas stuck (and he might have liked this image) on a quaint rustic branch-line of poetic history while Pound and Eliot steamed ahead.

Pascal seems to vacillate between a professed ignorance of God's nature and some rather doctrinaire assumptions about it.