How To Use Dogmatic In A Sentence

Lambert isn't against atonalism, and admires Berg a great deal, but he's against any sort of dogmatism, and the atonalists had become dogmatic even by then.
He was an undogmatic, unsectarian bridge-builder.
I decided eventually that the main criterion as a judge was to be as undogmatic and open-minded as possible. It's too soon to wave goodbye to the magical art of travel writing | Michael Jacobs
a rapid sort of first "intellection," an error that made all departments of education so trivial, assumptive and dogmatic for centuries before Comenius, Basedow and Pestalozzi, has been banished everywhere save from moral and religious training, where it still persists in full force. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
In fact, our lunar friend provides an instructive example of how a vulgar and dogmatic notion of ‘science’ can be quite compatible with the most arcane fantasies.

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Such of these principles as the Council found expedient at present to formularize, were set forth by it in "The Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
Dogmatic constraints, tactical stereotypes, schematism in place of originality, and the boring repetition of truisms are contributing factors in creative infecundity.
And credit for his undogmatic approach is due in part, he thinks, to his former boss, the trail-blazing Dutch architect and urban planner Rem Koolhaas. Building a Better Future
Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.
Against his appeals to observation they opposed dogmatic principles.
Nowhere in the report does she provide evidence for these assertions:they are merely dogmatically stated as fact.
Because the discursive babbler is setting himself some dogmatically rigid guardrails.
From what we’ve seen Connie do over the last four years, it seems as if her self-assigned mission is to identify artists in all media who are making nondogmatic, nondidactic work that nonetheless aims to change political consciousness, encourage those artists, and bring them together. Living Justice
They must beware of becoming dogmatic and opinionated and strive to keep an open mind and their opinions flexible.
Regina Einig asked the chairman of the German Mariological society, professor of dogmatics and patristics at Lugano, Te Deum laudamus!
Discussions of the American alliance in this volume, and our economic and cultural bonds therein, are in general incurious, dogmatic and one-dimensional.
I'm not sure about that, but I am hopeful that Anglican theology, with its middle way between liberal rationalism and dogmatic traditionalism, can save the historical quest for Jesus.
But it also stemmed from his aloof and dogmatic attitude. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the way she says it is urgent, funny, alarmed but undogmatic. Times, Sunday Times
American neo-orthodoxy in the 1940s and 1950s typically meant a compound of Brunner's dogmatics, Niebuhr's theological ethics, and the scripture scholarship of the biblical theology movement.
A far more sinister implication is the creation of an intolerant dogmatic approach to complex issues.
Dresser's style was never dictated by dogmatic theories, but had a general affinity to the art of the early English Middle Ages and also suggested his admiration for Asian art.
At his best, and that is often, this transplated Englishman goes beyond impressionism to provide an undogmatic assessment of what Americans (indeed, people all over the planet) have done to the earth. Landscape's Grittier Aspects
Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.
Dogmatic people tend to be dogmatic about everything, whereas Catholic Faith says ‘Be dogmatic about the dogmatic truths of the Faith, but for the rest of life: Lighten up, bub!’
The dogmatic resistance to entrenchment would raise its arid and pedantic head.
That dogmatic definition seems to have struck him as unscriptural over definition, an intellectual exercise which had developed into a rigid system of control.
By dogmatically employing ‘news values’ that focus on conflict, drama and simplicity, we get the political stakes raised to the point where political leaders are induced into playing the game of dumbing it down to win the media war.
Whatever the subject, he addresses it in a thoughtful, generous, undogmatic spirit.
For the present it must suffice to observe that the evidences of an overruling dogmatic purpose are generally much more conspicuous in the third synoptist than in the first; and that the very loose manner in which this writer has handled his materials in the "Acts" is not calculated to inspire us with confidence in the historical accuracy of his gospel. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
Researchers have found that Conservatives typically are dogmatic, intolerant of ambiguity with beliefs rooted in fear and aggression.
‘It's the study of dogmatics, you know, universal truth, what you know as opposed to what you believe,’ he replies.
Both have clear and simple moral arguments in their favour and convoluted, dogmatic arguments against. Times, Sunday Times
He's not entirely dogmatic about it and he'll make an exception whenever he's enthused enough by the work.
So that, if the truth must be spoken, when the rational and dogmatical sciences began, the discovery of useful works came to an end. The New Organon
Only dogmatic Darwin worshipers could be dumb enough to believe that these stalactites and stalagmites would know where to start growing so that eventually meet at a point, conjoin, become a pillar and hold the roof of the cave up. Rimstone Formation - The Panda's Thumb
Crude materialism is the hardcore – some would say dogmatic – version of materialism. Mindful things « Anglican Samizdat
Religious people are more likely to be prejudiced, dogmatic and closed-mind, and not all believers are faithful to the moral percepts and principles taught by religion. Dr T.P.Chia
In a sense, this movie is "evangelistic", but for that non-dogmatic perspective that emphasizes not dogma but love, family, relationship, compassion, loyalty, and other things that are not the sole property of Christians, and which fundamentalist dogma is sometimes even a hindrance to. Bucket List of the Evangelical Nation
Others in turn, such as Christian theologian Alister McGrath, have used the term fundamentalism to characterize atheism as dogmatic. Blurbomat.com
Iconic creativity issues out of the entire church's dogmatic heritage, which is founded on divine revelation.
Reading his “contract on america”, then the inverview, I never expected to see such die-hard, heatless, dogmatic, indomitable cluelessness about the workings of Society. Newt Gingrich Answers Your Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. In which Max discovers a tic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
There could be few things more dogmatic than the many dictates of Leftist political correctness!
The implication is that this is needless suffering or, even worse, suffering caused by human beings with their dogmatic religious intolerance.
The science which, with all its preliminaries, has for its especial object the solution of these problems is named metaphysics -- a science which is at the very outset dogmatical, that is, it confidently takes upon itself the execution of this task without any previous investigation of the ability or inability of reason for such an undertaking. The Critique of Pure Reason
The state has the same will, the same conscience-voice for good and evil as the Christ; yet it crumbles itself away into dogmaticalness of civil officers against one another. Uncollected Prose
He is much less certain and dogmatic talking about emotions and personal relationships.
Sadia Rai, a Â‘dogmatic painterÂ’ displayed a canvas, mostly painted in black, and on the focal point where a female figure, painted in vivid red paint was shown encaged in a white ice-like cube. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1062
Whereas the sexton's son, Heidegger, had decided that the life of philosophy was incompatible with the dogmatic system of the Church, Stein was led by phenomenological study to God.
Judging by his students – who include Niall Ferguson, Andrew Roberts, Richard Overy and Orlando Figes – Stone must have been an inspiring and undogmatic teacher, a provocateur in the classroom but a supportive mentor outside. The Atlantic and Its Enemies by Norman Stone
Despite years of evidence highlighting their failings, dogmatic adherence to dated ideology persists.
They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the impostor popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes’.
As church dogmatics, as the faith of the community seeking understanding, theology is inherently communitarian.
Researchers familiar with spectrometry and colorimetry will know this, but there might be many readers that dogmatically reject any animal color study without reflectance.
Contrary to official wisdom, the public is generally measured and undogmatic in its attitudes towards the technology.
Same with dogmatic laissez faire capitalism (whose Gawd is some omnipotent Invisible Hand whose wisdom is infallible) .... The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
Someone who had been 'a remarkably undogmatic man, unassuming and even diffident in manner' became obstinate in the extreme.
That is to say, it is concerned with academic biblical exegesis and academic dogmatic theology.
But in the meantime the history of Yiddish warns us to be wary of dogmatic statements about its life and death.
But how do you drill this into the heads of the millions of self-styled born-agains who are less dogmatic?
They share a strong non-dogmatic Christian faith and from it flows a commitment to do their duty to their country and their people.
I was not an environmentalist then, and my impression of these people ranged from the nasality of John Denver to dogmatic feminists cramming political correctness into any available ear while claiming that they would save the world by recycling, biking to work or changing out the incandescent light bulbs. Giles Slade: The 'Deep Throat' of Green
She leads prayers on the hour and espouses a real but undogmatic faith. Times, Sunday Times
If we do not prove our thesis, we are dogmatic, not critical. Christianity Today
But his aesthetic immoralism remained in substance unchanged - it only bowed down before the rule of dogmatic Christianity.
That means you have to be less dogmatic about access technology. Times, Sunday Times
Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
It promised ruthless pragmatism about means, but has become dogmatic in its advocacy of the private sector.
Either our proposition must be proved apodeictically; or, if this is unsuccessful, the sources of this inability must be sought for, and, if these are discovered to exist in the natural and necessary limitation of our reason, our opponents must submit to the same law of renunciation and refrain from advancing claims to dogmatic assertion. The Critique of Pure Reason
The cause of public confidence in science is ill served by the dogmatic and intolerant banner of 'denialism'.
As Meyer encountered different cultures, his relatively undogmatic approach to theology enabled him to adapt his ministry to fit the situation.
Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
Scholes splits "fabulation" into two major components: dogmatic and speculative. Anime Nano!
Kant himself distinguished two types of philosophy, which he called the dogmatic and critical types. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
My second uniform is less dogmatic, more feminine, yet still a tad chaste. Times, Sunday Times
But the desire to present him as undogmatic does make for the odd bit of glossing over. The Times Literary Supplement
You won't be surprised if I say that I don't regard that as a recipe for a kind of dogmatic biblicism, or just like rolling over with your paws in the air in the face of whatever scripture appears to say, because that's not a real conversation. The Archbishop's Response to the Presence and Engagement Study Day, with Q&As
In a different dimension but not far removed, Obama's Chicago pastor, now eclipsed, Rev. Jeremiah Wright showed Obama a non-dogmatic Christianity: a transcendent God and a zeal for this-worldly activism, but not a direct answer to every political question. Christopher Lydon: Reading Obama's Mind: Pragmatism and Its Perils (AUDIO)
Speculative theology is not the same as philosophy of religion, or is it identical with theology in the sense of dogmatics .
It appears to be a prudential judgment of the Pope's, not a dogmatic statement.
He has stood up to petty tyrants, from dogmatic Communists, through McCarthyites to third-world dictators.
Almost single-handedly Karl Barth retrieved dogmatics for the mainstream of academic theology after its marginalization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
In the end, dogmatic reactions to sex selection are unconvincing, and often rooted in dubious unstated assumptions.
The "ouija" lies as coolly and confidently as it tells the truth; in fact, it is dogmatically positive that its statements are correct in every case, even when they are glaringly incorrect at the very time they are written. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
Peer pressure works among adults no less than the young and it's a dogmatic dictator.
Of some things we cannot be dogmatic; but we know this for sure-God has no halfway house between heaven and hell where He takes us to fumigate us!
After all, it is, I suppose, a bit dogmatic to absolutely insist the whole thing is state controlled.
To Struan, the bishop represented all that he despised in the Catholics — the dogmatic fanaticism of self-castrated, power-seeking men who sucked riches from the poor in the name of a Catholic God, drop by bloody drop, and from the drops built mighty cathedrals to the glory of their version of Divinity, who had idolatrously set up a man in Rome as Pope and made the man an infallible arbiter of other men. Tai-Pan
The apagogic mode of proof is the true source of those illusions which have always had so strong an attraction for the admirers of dogmatical philosophy. The Critique of Pure Reason
It isn't ichthyology; it is dogmatics, which is still more difficult and tangled up. A Horse's Tale
My dictionary defines a pedagogue as a pedantic or dogmatic teacher and there is a lot of that about Waters.
His scientific labours were abruptly brought to an end by the Revolution of 1848; he succeeded, however, in making his escape from Rome and having come to America he taught dogmatic theology during the scholastic year 1849-50 at the Jesuit theologate then connected with Georgetown College, Washington, D. C. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
He is a most undogmatic composer with a great appreciation of musical history.
Though this book contain in it many things dogmatical, that is, divers doctrines of the apostles, yet it is not styled the book of the doctrine, but of the Acts of the Apostles, that we may learn to act as they acted. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
Again the authors are mercifully undogmatic. The Times Literary Supplement
After five years thus spent in special work he was recalled to Maria-Laach, the theologate of the Society, to review his varied acquirements in the light of dogmatic theology and to prepare his theses for the final examination and the degree of Doctor in the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Sometimes, I point out such examples to my students in religious studies, in order to show them the difference between scholarship and dogmatics: we scholars like to emend our conclusions in light of new evidence or fresh arguments. Ferule & Fescue
In fact, if you wish to instruct others, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may occasion opposition and prevent a candid attention.
If we do not prove our thesis, we are dogmatic, not critical. Christianity Today
It's possible a dogmatic pedagogist like Hillary might take advice from Bill the randy Machiavellian, and accomplish something among the faculty at said law school. <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-were-bill-and-hillary-clinton.html" title="How were Bill and Hillary Clinton different — as law professors
It always portrays the Church as powerful, ominous, mysterious, bound to tradition, wealthy, adorned with beauty and majesty, steeped in history, dogmatic and unmodernized, with an iron-fisted attachment to a world gone by, The Music in Angels and Demons
Another fault among instructors is a tendency to be unyielding and dogmatic.
Throughout he remained a firm but undogmatic champion of public-service broadcasting.
She has revealed the totalitarian temptations and shown us the strength of undogmatic humanism. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Presentation Speech
Furthermore, Calvin neglects or doesn't comprehend an important and dogmatically accepted aspect of trinitarianism and Christology: what is known as the perichoresis Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
Material for reflection he has in abundance -- and he often remains relatively dogmatic and unplagued by doubt. A Handbook of Ethical Theory
Your definition of it as dogmatic is the issue, because you have never justified it. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
Nowhere in the report does she provide evidence for these assertions:they are merely dogmatically stated as fact.
Between the two extremes of dogmatic adherence and blithe indifference to the text of the Constitution lies a reasonable and legal resolution.
How, for example, to reconcile Aquinas' doctrinal disproof of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the acceptance and dogmatical promulgation of the same? Light from the East: The Russian Catholic Parish in Lyons, France
They must beware of becoming dogmatic and opinionated and strive to keep an open mind and their opinions flexible.
Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
But the key seems to be to know when to say, “No, I am going to disagree on this and this or that and that,” and not get wrapped up in dogmatic debates about The Way. Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Lies, Scam Artists, and Bullshit Meters (Networking Part 5)
At the outset of this undertaking it is necessary to explain the meaning that is here attached to the term dogmatics and to set forth the method and the arrangement appropriate to it. The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"
His parents are admirable examples of a Christian life, undogmatic, tolerant, generous, admired by all.
He then might be less dogmatic. The Times Literary Supplement
The theological romanticism of Lacordaire and of Montalembert was not much more appreciated by them, the dogmatic ignorance and the very weak reasoning powers of this school indisposing them against it. Recollections of My Youth
Religion is pictured as old-fashioned, atavistic and dogmatic, defending superstition by burning scientific martyrs at the stake.
Well he got better as the night went on, calmer, less dogmatic. Times, Sunday Times
Kant calls the antinomy of pure reason “the most singular phenomenon of human reason” and praises it as “a very powerful agent to arouse philosophy from its dogmatic slumber and to stimulate it to the arduous task of undertaking a critique of reason itself” ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON
In view of these new possibilities, science sees dogmatic ethics and the moral burdens of history as obstacles on the road to progress.
One of the best documents to read for those who have questions about Catholic ecclesiology is Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church; it was an essential text for me when I was working though many questions in my journey to and into the Catholic Church. Ecumenism
The opportunity to link in with the global economy and join the world community in commerce and the exchange of ideas and ideals has been repudiated for the dogmatic "certainty" of a perverse, atavistic gynophobia, where the "enemy within" is as handy as mother, sister, daughter, wife. Afghanistan's McGenerals
This is all the more difficult because many liberation theologians continue to use a great deal of the Church's classical ascetical and dogmatic language while changing its signification. Is Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., right or wrong...
He accuses me of a 'dogmatic biologism'. The Times Literary Supplement
There is another species of learned men, who, though less dogmatical and supercilious, are not less impertinent. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
The Pyrrhonists sought the truth, even if most of the time that meant that they sought contrary arguments to dogmatic positions held by other philosophers, such as the Stoics or Epicureans.
These catechistic exchanges very often teach standard or dogmatic answers to hypothetical questions. Contextualizing Amanda Marcotte
Put the other way around, the respondent is more likely to be dogmatic, technical and uncompromising.
Theirs was a dialogue of the deaf, the producer voicing his intellectual doubts, the politician offering nothing but dogmatic certainties.
Krishna comes across as wonderfully straightforward, honest and undogmatic.
In Holy Trinity Church Nicholson abounded in anecdotes, vulgarity, rudeness, emotional appeals, a dogmatism so dogmatic as to frighten.
he is a dogmatically opinionated critic of Modern Art
So they often run the risk of becoming dogmatic and overly rigid in their thinking process.
They _were_ philosophers -- "spectators of all time and all existence"; but they were precritical or dogmatic philosophers, to whom it had not occurred to define the requirements of philosophy. The Approach to Philosophy
Although influenced by one and almost embarrassingly in awe of the other, he was more pluralist than either of his highly dogmatic mentors.
Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
Cell Theory then rapidly turned into a more dogmatic cell doctrine, and in this form survives up to the present day.
Jesus used an indirect and subtle method of communication which may well have been more effective than direct, dogmatic statements.
He reacted against it as an institution with an unbendingly dogmatic definition of itself.
Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence. April « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Religious people are more likely to be prejudiced, dogmatic and closed-mind, and not all believers are faithful to the moral percepts and principles taught by religion. Dr T.P.Chia
In the stricter sense the term dogmatic fact is confined to books and spoken discourses, and its meaning will be explained by a reference to the condemnation by Innocent X of five propositions taken from the posthumous book of Jansenius, entitled The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
dogmatic writings
This enables a less dogmatic argument which rests upon the unresolved dialectical tension between an approach which is very speculative and theoretical, and another which is stylistically more factual.
Charlatan is an opprobrious term, but "empiric" literally means one who follows experience instead of dogma, and should therefore be an honorable designation; but as the medical profession has always been dogmatic, and therefore hostile to empiricism, or fidelity to experience, it has made empiricism an opprobrious term. Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10
JUDAISM so largely supplied the circumstantial and doctrinal germs out of which dogmatic Christianity grew, that we cannot thoroughly understand the Christian belief in a final day of judgment, unless we first notice the historic and literary derivation of that belief from Judaism, and then trace its development in the new conditions through which it passed. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Dogmatic constraints, tactical stereotypes, schematism in place of originality, and the boring repetition of truisms are contributing factors in creative infecundity.
He applies the Marxist world view dogmatically to all social phenomena.
To brush this issue off as if it were mere result of some dogmatic bigotry or blindness to the relative implications of the spectrum of policy issues on the table is itself a blindness to the scope and impact that would come from changing societal focus from one ideal in family definement to another. Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor"
My dictionary defines a pedagogue as a pedantic or dogmatic teacher and there is a lot of that about Waters.
Nowhere in the report does she provide evidence for these assertions:they are merely dogmatically stated as fact.
The problem many have with a dogmatic acceptance of any theory, scientific or not, is a lack of proof.
But it also stemmed from his aloof and dogmatic attitude. Times, Sunday Times
Islamic-from cosmopolitanism, which, in my view, should strive to be secular and nondogmatic, provisional and subject to revision (632). Notes on 'Introduction'
Stubborn cusses that they are, those dogmatic mathematicians insisted on using the old, messy value of pi.
If you regard a presumption as rebuttable, you are NOT following it dogmatically!
Sometimes, I point out such examples to my students in religious studies, in order to show them the difference between scholarship and dogmatics: we scholars like to emend our conclusions in light of new evidence or fresh arguments. Ferule & Fescue
The church and the Communist Party were both, it used to be argued, dogmatic and authoritarian institutions, demanding obedience and total commitment.
This constellation of ideas provides a non-dogmatic and equivocal statement on the co-optation and dialectical struggle of Soviet art.
The above sort of situation is, IMHO, much more common than some kind of crude dogmatic Popperian falsificationism that you seem to think is so common. Demarcation as Politics
I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression.
* And at their better moments, formal prescriptivists are helpful, undogmatic guides to difficulties that they did not invent. Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar
By contrast the authority's expert witness was emphatic, even dogmatic, in his evidence.
I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression.
He begins with a 1400-page prolegomena, entitled ‘The Doctrine of the Word of God,’ containing a strong emphasis on preaching or church proclamation as the material of dogmatics.
Berkeley is much taken with the notion of a World Soul that is a 'pure aethereal fire'; and has been speculating Siris is explicitly a speculative work, put forward not dogmatically but as food for thought about its role in the functioning of the cosmos. Berkeley, Laws of Nature, and Occasionalism
The new levels of pastoral involvement stemmed in the first place from new ecclesiology implicit in much of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of 1964 and in later conciliar documents.
This undogmatic commitment to an unfinished notion of freedom undercut her influence within the dominant socialist and communist organizations. Rosa Luxemburg.
Instead, the dogmatic ideologists passively watched the movement disintegrate, until it simply collapsed to no avail and vanished from the Israeli political scene.
She has said: ‘I found myself thinking: why is he so hard-hearted, so dogmatic, so lacking in kindness?’
He is a tyrannical, dogmatic and highly narcissistic dictator who has no intentions of going down quietly.
As the next generation of leaders, we must be willing to be self-critical if we wish to avoid becoming dogmatic.
The greatest threat to humanity is the tolerance of religious dogmatics. Huckabee: God's Vote Only One That Matters To Me
Belloc es optimista y constructivo, dogmático, audaz y aventurero, sorprendente y desigual, enamorado tanto de la vida que late a la vera del camino como de la sólida tradición. Hilaire Belloc
Opinions are meant to be asserted - not in dogmatic, unyielding terms, but in confident terms.
He also added that but once had all the club members united in applauding the same speaker; only Samuel Jones, who afterwards became the "golden rule" mayor of Toledo, had been able to overcome all their dogmatic differences, when he had set forth a plan of endowing a group of workingmen with a factory plant and a working capital for experimentation in hours and wages, quite as groups of scholars are endowed for research. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
Ratzinger has continually taken up since his early lectures in dogmatics, acquires an elevated theological significance. Archive 2009-01-01
This is a controversial subject for which not enough data are available to make a dogmatic statement.
Nevertheless, he quickly began to attract followers, as his open, undogmatic approach drew a circle of dedicated students, some of whom quickly became teachers.
Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
This is why he claims to be "˜non-dogmatic 'while promoting his own form of dogmatism in conforming to the views of certain ID leaders, and even to those who pre-date the IDM but who use the words" ˜design 'or "˜intelligence' in their vocabulary. The Memory Hole
The unspeculative, dogmatic type of school religion does not make an appeal to the ordinary boy sufficiently strong to override what he has found to be the most fascinating thing in his experience. The School and the World
If exclusivism is unwarrantedly dogmatic, inclusivism and pluralism are unacceptably indeterminate.
The reality is quite the opposite–it is religious dogmatics who are willing to compromise on some moral values to protect others, the ones they hold closest to the fundamental doctrine of faith. The Volokh Conspiracy » “[T]he Islamic Fundamentalist Charge That … the U.S.A. … Is the ‘Great Satan’ Is Not Without an Element of Truth”
If so, it seems that the term dogmatic has really lost all meaning, and can be applied to anyone who believes that the priciples they live by preclude certain solutions to certain problems. It’s made of people.
Much has been written about the unusual challenge the Book of Job offers in its audacious questioning of the ways of God, but one never hears of the contribution of Job’s wife to the antidogmatic bent of the text. Wife of Job: Bible.
The Greys are the most hive minded and dogmatic of the societies interacting with the earth and near space i.e. Mars! Innocent Bystanders
The concrete facts of paddles and pack-straps quite overcome your dogmatics. CHAPTER 8
The evidence on both sides rather took the form of dogmatic assertions.
Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
I am sensible, that nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and that, even if excessive scepticism could be maintained, it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
I grew up thinking of UUism as a "universal" church, a nondogmatic religion that was so anchored in spiritual strength that one could go anywhere, experience anything in the religious world, and find some value to take home. Philocrites: This week at uuworld.org.
Tanguay finds the philosopher’s fundamentally erotic or zetetic way of life to preclude any dogmatic refutation of revelation. Archive 2008-05-11
For example, Armstrong's dogmatic view that the Israelites left Egypt the following night after the Passover meal, not the same night, was now deemed unscriptural.
The picture painted by Eric Kaufmann of future society divided clamorously between fundamentalist atheists and dogmatically religious groups is not pretty. Rory Fitzgerald: Richard Dawkins and Atheist Crimes
The deductive, dogmatic, nature of Catholic theology is clearly part of it.

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