A stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions.
1 It slays the doctrinaire and makes a red-hot revivalist out of him.
2 I'm not a doctrinaire socialist but Labour would not have done this.
3 He had the pride, at once resigned and overweening, of a doctrinaire .
4 Kossuth, like all English statesmen, was a historical royalist, not a doctrinaire .
5 The little doctrinaire in her revolted and she was pleased to be censorious.
6 Where Mr Lafontaine was doctrinaire and flamboyant, his successor is pragmatic and considered.
7 But Nature, who has no doctrinaire ideas, may equally apply it to concentration.
8 Granted, even central bankers with academic economics backgrounds aren't necessarily doctrinaire .
9 He was often more of a doctrinaire than a practical statesman.
10 A doctrinaire , there was nothing of the typical doctrinaire , or theorist, about him.
11 Belgian Health Minister Laurette Onkelinx said the pope's comments... reflect a dangerous doctrinaire vision.
12 You don't have to look far for all sorts of uncompromising, doctrinaire , brook-no-criticism behaviour.
13 I think fiction has a way of doing this without being doctrinaire about it.
14 It would do no harm to stir up the doctrinaire assumptions with the bayonet-poker.
15 Our own intolerant, bigoted, unthinking, doctrinaire reactionaries are properly referred to as 'conservative thinkers.'
16 And we're not too you know, too doctrinaire about it.
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