Doctrinaire

Director Suba Das’s enthusiastic production might have the Toxteth riots as background but it reminds one that the brilliance of Churchill’s play is that it is never doctrinaire, but filled with human oddity, struggle and disappointment.

She was thrilled that her home town of Irvine was mentioned in the lyrics of a famous Proclaimers’ hit, and the de-industrialisation of the country at the hands of an uncaring doctrinaire Conservative administration in London was bitterly resented.

Haley is a paradigmatic spiritual “BoomerCon” (boomer conservative) and doctrinaire neoconservative who, like the Bourbons of old, has “learned nothing and forgotten nothing” from the GOP’s post-2016 course-correcting turn toward nationalism and realism.

Some analysts believe that Biden’s reputation as a centrist could make it easier for him to achieve changes that might seem more threatening coming from a doctrinaire progressive.

This doesn’t mean that they always understand those rules; and there are too many times when I find myself frustrated when they can be just as deaf and doctrinaire about politics, ideas and religion as the leaders they critique.

To avoid that, Nigerians must master contingent interpretation of politics, away from entrenched, doctrinaire positions which would neither change the United States’ or China’s strategic orientations nor make them countries Nigeria can afford to ignore.

Like the rest of the 2020 Democrat field, Bloomberg is a doctrinaire liberal on life and LGBT issues.

The role progressive activists play in setting the Democratic agenda provided Trump with an ideal target, helping him portray the Democratic Party as dominated by a doctrinaire elite.

Although The Economist claimed HeI to have been financed by doctrinaire Islamists in Saudi Arabia, in reality it has funding from several Afro-Arab sources.

Fashionable mindfulness encourages illiberal malcontents to hyper-focus on their doctrinaire thoughts and subversive sensations – without judgment.

Hanging on to an outdated and doctrinaire picture of India, they have been unable to take account of the serious changes in the Indian economy as it switches from an agrarian state to an industrial powerhouse.

The debaters’ doctrinaire arguments, as uncomfortable and tedious as such conflicts tend to be, are contrasted by the portrayal of those moments when they all unite in acts of physical protest.

Greenspan, while still fundamentally monetarist in orientation, argued that doctrinaire application of theory was insufficiently flexible for central banks to meet emerging situations.

Perkins, 1968, p. 324 Thomas Jefferson's doctrinaire approach to enforcing the embargo violated a key Democratic-Republican precept: commitment to limited government.

The king later expressed regret at the loss of his chief minister.sfn Until the 1950s, historians discounted Cromwell's role, calling him a doctrinaire hack who was little more than the agent of the despotic King Henry VIII.

These sketches would also feature long lists of synonyms but finishing with the opposite, such as: Charles: "I was certain, positive, convinced and doctrinaire, and yet..

While he was influenced by the Cartesian approach, he was less doctrinaire. citation He studied elastic collisions in the 1650s but delayed publication for over a decade.

Without confirmation of whether the American force included carriers (not received until 08:20), Nagumo's reaction was doctrinaire.