hidebound

How To Use hidebound In A Sentence

• Let's not be hidebound by tradition and calendars.
• The steps he took might appear simple and obvious in hindsight, but they were far from easy at a hidebound institution seemingly intent on writing its own obituary.
• There can be no sport more regulated, and no sport more hidebound by an inflexible adherence to the rule book.
• The depressing part was that the hidebound attitudes of the British officer class haven't changed much in more than 80 years.
• It's as if we are back in that newspaper office of 10 years ago, when Riddoch, unschooled in the resistant bureaucracy of getting out a daily paper, tried to change hidebound attitudes too quickly for comfort.
• But there is more to the backlash than hidebound resistance to change.
• In rural Sicily, where local Catholic traditions have remained stronger, women are more hidebound by traditional mores regarding the sexes.
• It's an insane effort, smacking of majoritarian tyranny and aggressive, hidebound religious-exclusivist ethics.
• There are pros and cons to that: a chief constable who has been in post too long can become hidebound and resistant to change, but changing leaders too often can lead to discontinuity.
• This is almost radical stuff for a hidebound bureaucracy.