But Nature, who has no doctrinaire ideas, may equally apply it to concentration.

Standing well at court, whether the king regnant was of the older or younger branch, whether the government was doctrinaire liberal, or conservative; looked upon by all as a man of talent, since those who have never experienced a political check are generally so regarded; hated by many, but warmly supported by others, without being really liked by anybody, M.

She reminded Issie for a moment of Renate, in gestures that obscurely cancelled one another out: a doctrinaire holding forth of nonsensical principles as mandatory.

Perhaps he is also troubled by Jeremy Corbyn's ideological stubbornness, and the damaging influence that doctrinaire aide Seumas Milne and others seem to have on the leader.

Clarida won't be doctrinaire in the rate decision, but will take his cue from inflation and unemployment data.

I haven't been a doctrinaire vegetarian or vegan, but I no longer have the same appetite for meat.

Writing to Nixon in 1971, Kirk told him "that some rather doctrinaire conservatives of our acquaintance ...

And their "marriage" expert civilians were on the doctrinaire spectrum of Catholic couples.

At the same time he will launch a renewed attack on Jeremy Corbyn, saying the Labour leader continued to work with Theresa May "to make Brexit happen" while pursuing a policy of " doctrinaire socialism".

Life is too short to be doctrinaire about my cocktails or deliberately set myself up for disappointment.

Lukacs is one of the few Marxist literary critics of the interwar period whose work remains influential (and devoid of the dreariness of much doctrinaire Marxist literary criticism).