Sentence examples for rigid belief from inspiring English sources

These too are double-edged, reflecting his suspicion of rigid belief systems (inside and outside the art world).

And there is a troubling dogma in their rigid belief that, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, taking these risks will be worth the pain they will cause.

Germany's rigid belief that others must suffer to preserve the system may yet make some other country decide to take the risk of ending what has become a very bad marriage.

In somatoparaphrenia, a type of monothematic delusion, the patient develops a rigid belief that one of his limbs belongs not to himself, but to someone else his grandmother, say.

Party Animals could and should have been (and occasionally is) a moving and disturbing account of a tormented family, a tale of rigid belief and dishonesty that was sometimes domestic and sometimes spanned the globe, but too often it feels simply like a news report of those same events.

"Many types of abuses of children are motivated by rigid belief systems," including severe corporal punishment, said Ms. Swan, a former Christian Scientist whose 16-month-old son, Matthew, died after she postponed taking him to a hospital for treatment of what proved to be meningitis.

In one painful moment of introspection, he even questions his family's rigid beliefs.

(Not that we didn't have our own rigid beliefs about what constituted proper dress and, in particular, what did not.

What she ended up with is a story that shows how these rigid beliefs often make a mockery out of the need to express oneself.

The research found that people with radical beliefs, determined through questionnaires that tested for traits like intolerance to others' viewpoints, dogmatic and rigid beliefs, and authoritarianism, had less metacognitive sensitivity.

His successors are all ideology; any hint of common sense, and America's present health and future well being, must kow tow to those narrow and stunningly rigid beliefs.