Sentence examples for narrow-minded of from inspiring English sources

Jonathan Ruppin, web editor for Foyles bookshop, said: "The cards have fallen rather well for retailers, with the inclusion of both established names and enough variety to offer something to all but the most narrow-minded of readers".

How narrow-minded of you!

Unless we can remove ourselves from the conventions and expectations -- many of them self-centered and narrow-minded -- of our everyday lives, wisdom is likely to elude us.

She was not, I was relieved to find, typical of Cambridge teachers, but her reaction was a salutary reminder of the insidiously narrow-minded parochialism of too much of the children's books market.

"There is none of the narrow-minded kind of teaching that you get in conservatories," she continued.

Alistair Anderson, Bedfordshire I didn't enjoy my time at my single-sex grammar school, partly because of the narrow-minded way of teaching.

Narrow-minded fears of a "loss of identity", as expressed by some ultras, seem as unfounded as concerns about the time it might take for the team to gel in the wake of all the changes.

The other is a narrow-minded clique of conservatives, largely composed of mullahs, that has in many ways lost touch with the masses and sometimes seems to have no agenda other than closing newspapers and blocking democratic change.

Later Platonists criticized Plutarch for a narrow-minded interpretation of the Timaeus, some of their criticisms (e.g. on the world soul), however, rest on an uncharitable interpretation of Plutarch (see Opsomer 2001).

Theodosius' evangelical zeal in pursuit of total power and the narrow-minded bigotry of the Church Fathers overthrew more than a thousand years of broad inclusiveness and celebration of human sexuality.

But, as the ultimate authority, Nicholas Day's apoplectic response to the laying-on of hands makes the headmaster seem less like a narrow-minded figure of fun than a furious voice of reason.