But Mackintosh had been finding it increasingly difficult to accommodate his clients' small-minded views, their interference.
Others have decided that harking back to behaviour that, regardless of whether it was justified, embarrassed France, is small-minded in view of everything that has happened since.
"The critics should be challenged not only for their prejudice but a small-minded, limiting view of Britain as London plus the rest.
Which to me is a very small-minded and shortsighted view, but it's the accountant's view and the lawyer's view.
Far from their stated belief of "we work towards a lean government that minimises interference in our daily lives and maximises individual and private-sector initiative", the government is actively shutting down any small business it can find that doesn't agree with its small-minded evangelical 1950s view of the world.
Never have I seen such a total disregard for people's feelings in an effort to satisfy one's own small-minded, egocentric and myopic view of reality.
Britten, according to the prevalent view, was a small-minded, provincial music maker, concerned chiefly with his own advancement.His defenders argue that he was a shy man who took necessary precautions to protect his life with Peter Pears, a tenor, at a time when homosexuals were routinely prosecuted and jailed.
Labor believes this position is small-minded.
The Tories in this view are variously greedy, mean, destructive, selfish, uncaring, small-minded, racist, nationalistic and more.
Centuries earlier Socrates had taken a more negative view, calling the old pessimistic, distrustful, malicious, suspicious and small-minded... attributes that might well suit them for politics, too.
