Sentence examples for narrow man from inspiring English sources
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.
[cartoon id= a19999"] It's surprising enough that this touchy, straitlaced, and rather narrow man wrote a novel like "Pamela," in which he deftly inhabited the turbulent emotional life of a teen-age girl.
These books are "inspirational" in a way that made "It's Not About the Bike" a best-seller, and "instructional" in only the vaguest sense; they showed what hours and hours of brutal and single-minded exercise can help a person do, and regardless of what we now know about Armstrong, their subject and insight was especially narrow: man spends all his time on bike, becomes best at riding bike.
He says his father, an engineer, was a weak and narrow-minded man.
At the lake's centre is Samosir Island, 27 miles (44 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide, which is linked with the western shore of the lake by a narrow man-made isthmus.
Safdie himself still maintains a pied-à-terre in the 13-storey building, which stands on a narrow, man-made peninsula just south of the Old Port section of Montreal.
Last year Amnesty International said there were children as young as seven working in the DRC's cobalt mines, "in narrow man-made tunnels, at risk of fatal accidents and serious lung disease".
Never deferential, his pages on PR's supremo Rahv ("inherently one of the most narrow men I knew"), fellow critic Lionel Trilling and Mary McCarthy show him at his most cutting.
Mr. Woodson warned his successor about "jealous and narrow-minded men".
The term has become popular in China in recent years to describe a "disease" among narrow-minded men seeking to control women and work against gender equality.
