How To Use Narrow-minded In A Sentence

  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • We have to admit that stubborn gerontocracy has been a major obstacle to reforming politics due to the aged politicians' obstinacy and narrow-mindedness.
  • I can't stand how limited, how clannish, how narrow-minded they are!
  • Distressingly these encouraged narrow-minded ideas based upon sexual objectivism are just as prevalent in animation…
  • What people did to me might hurt as well, but I would not carry their narrow-mindedness or bias as my burden.
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  • A lot of us don't get a lot out of narrow-minded, self-righteous, paranoia coupled with obviously disingenuous yatter about being the party of small government and fiscal conservatism – eight years of George Bush made those lies too obvious to miss. 'Regular guy' Thune is hot commodity in GOP circles
  • He is critical of the monks, whom he considers narrow-minded and self-righteous.
  • Frustration at the narrow-minded ‘electoralism’ of the British political parties has produced a new form of militant abstentionism in the 2001 campaign which we haven't seen before.
  • Instead they choose to hurt a person who doesn't fit into their narrow-minded view of the world.
  • The villagers displayed the typical narrow-mindedness of a small community.
  • The American voters gave Democrats clear control of Congress, rebuked President George W. Bush, and voiced an unequivocal public craving to trade in customary narrow-minded politics for something more inspiring. The Heart Of Queens | Disinformation
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • Independence was recast as outward-looking and internationalist rather than a narrow-minded and dangerous venture. Scotland's Future
  • I think this is a narrow-minded view, with all due respect, that you are holding.
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • If you protest Starbucks in the Imperial Palace, why don't you protest speaking English to your Chinese buddy in China? It's ultranationalism, and too narrow-minded.
  • I tend to be be a narrow-minded, singled-thoughted twit so I depend on others like Hertzberg to show me the light. A Sane Discussion Of Hillary And The Popular Vote
  • narrow-mindedly, the authorities closed down the cafe where teenagers used to hang out
  • Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot of acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Mark Twain 
  • I get the impression that Salinger has a lot of admiration for Holden, if only because Holden narrates the whole book and there's nobody else there to comment on him, and yet I find Holden to be just a narrow-minded, priggish, self-pitying little squit.
  • In truth, no two persons could have been more thoroughly mismated -- Byron, the human volcano, and his wife, a prim, narrow-minded, and peevish woman. Famous Affinities of History — Complete
  • In today's cyber age, people take it as an insult to be labelled narrow-minded for their opinions with obvious bias.
  • Hardly the conduct of a sectarian or narrow-minded politician.
  • He apparently took keen pleasure in holding up to ridicule and in satirising, what he was pleased to call his ponderous pedantries, his solemn affectation of profundity and wisdom, his narrow-mindedness, and his intolerable and transparent egotism. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
  • What is holding this research back is not money but dogmatism and narrow-mindedness.
  • Beneath his bluff exterior, he is a narrow-minded reactionary with merely some financial success.
  • A hoss is a plumb, narrow-minded critter, but he knows enough for that. The Killer
  • It seems practically everything of Etruscans has already been shown historically to originate from the Near East despite any denials from a few narrow-minded historians: divine hammer/mallet/labrys, haruspicy, the alphabet, architecture, pottery styles, world-view, etc. More about egg symbols in Etruria and the rest of the classical world
  • To a narrow-minded military man like Darling, talk of rights was poppycock.
  • The professor also slammed the government's research funding agencies for narrow-minded views on how to train researchers.
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • He is critical of the monks, whom he considers narrow-minded and self-righteous.
  • You never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place ever since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction. Mark Twain
  • He was criticised for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded.
  • But the main point is, if you are right, if God really is the petty, narrow-minded, bigoted, capricious, cruel deity that you portray, then eternity with such a monstrous creature would be worse than any "Hell" your terror-thralled brain can imagine. Dallas Methodist bishop to local pastor: Gay is not exactly OK | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • If you listen to these guys talk about music, you might expect their sound to be very narrow-minded and loopy, but instead, it's fresh, crisp and loopy.
  • I'm frustrated with narrow-minded view of history this article represents.
  • Unlike other rappers who name-drop the hug drug - mostly narrow-minded gangstas turned empathetic M.C.'s - they have never needed psychedelic drugs to tap into their own outré space.
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • I'm not going to waste more time trying to talk sense into some narrow-minded thickhead, like you.
  • All have proved that there is more to football than Scotland's narrow-minded managerial merry-go-round.
  • But then everything in this excerpt is so narrow-minded and wrong, it just boggles the mind that a 31-year-old could have said it.
  • Beneath his bluff exterior, he is a narrow-minded reactionary with merely some financial success.
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • But I think they prefer being double-minded over what they allege is narrow-minded. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • All who protest at such matters are labelled ‘homophobic’ and mocked as narrow-minded, bigoted and censorious.
  • He wanted to escape from the narrow-minded provincialism of the small town where he had been brought up.
  • Instead, we conceive of home mostly as a site of enclosure and closure, of narrow-mindedness and nationalism.
  • But I think they prefer being double-minded over what they allege is narrow-minded. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • It was just sort of a narrow-minded point of view of what would happen.
  • a brilliant but narrow-minded judge
  • Taking Gnosis to task casts the detractor as an unreasoning, narrow-minded brute, steeped in dogma and conversely, casts the Gnostic as an unharmful, gentle soul who believes in the fusion of all religion and would simply like to be allowed to get on with his own pursuit of spiritual ascendancy without coming under fire, a view quite appealing to a libertarian, for example. [gnosis] gnosticism, gnostics
  • But a prophet is not wont to be held in honour in his own country; nor was the narrow-minded, carnal supranaturalism of the The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.
  • It is mere narrow-mindedness to consider the present extent of the productive forces as the test of how many persons could be supported on a given area of land.
  • He is particularly bilious toward academics, repeatedly making claims about their narrow-mindedness.
  • Another downside is dealing with narrow-minded clients who don't allow you to move forward with what is clearly the best strategy for their business.
  • As a rebuff to those who think today's teenagers are too narrow-minded, Umay's concerns are notably wide-ranging.
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • The villagers displayed the typical narrow-mindedness of a small community.
  • Also, our ideological and theoretical workers should always guard against self-satisfaction, narrow-minded conservatism and ignorant boasting, failings which Comrade Mao Zedong warned us against.
  • Such a comment betrays an inflexible narrow-minded misunderstanding of our enemies and how to combat them.
  • Running his own party is a fantasy come true for this narrow-minded obsessive. The Sun
  • Such narrow-minded blinkered parochialism can only leave these campaigners looking even more desperate.
  • And the attacks on his parents and even his town as a ‘breeding ground of liberal parenting’ just reeks of so much narrow-minded patriotic tripe.
  • On most of the cases that count, she has proved to be anathema to their narrow-minded view of the world and Constitution.
  • Not only will people pointedly fail to attend your rallies there, but your intrusive business activities will receive notice from new jacks-in-office with amazingly narrow-minded views on what is permissible.
  • Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot of acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Mark Twain 
  • Mircea Geoana's unbelievable statements about his being "hexed" by Basescu proved that the country had been at a hair's distance from electing as president a politician whose diplomatic credentials did not do much to hide an immature and narrow-minded character. Spero News
  • Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot of acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Mark Twain 
  • It is unbelievable that as a result of this narrow-mindedness a group of people should suffer.
  • That is they tend to be aggressive, narrow-minded, egocentric, irritable, ignorant, and bad-tempered.
  • Because they exploit the fears and incite the prejudices of the narrow-minded.
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • In Scotland, and in Wales, there are arguments breaking out about the rejection of a United Kingdom side being an example of narrow-minded parochialism.
  • Eventually, he himself may find his organization and their remarkable efforts the subject of boycott by narrow-minded individuals - emboldened by this climate tolerant of boycott - who either do not believe Israelis and Palestinians can collaborate, or believe (because of their vehemently anti-Israeli stance) Barenboim's do-gooding must be strangled in its infancy Qanta Ahmed, MD: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott
  • Was his mockery of posters encouraging riding a bike meant to appeal to the narrow-minded prejudices of his more polluting punters?
  • Rigid, narrow-minded and dull, she walked all her days veiled in the dreariest garb of propriety and respectability. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
  • But I look around me and I see too much introverted, narrow-minded, self-congratulating boorishness.
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • Educators must be careful not to distort or prejudice the reality that is presented to students such that they are making the students narrow-minded and naive as opposed to broad-minded and worldly-wise.
  • I am writing of events which took place years ago, but I have seen no reason to change the opinion then formed, that Mr. Parasyte, the principal, was a "toady" of the first water; that he was a narrow-minded, partial man, in whom the principle of justice had never been developed. Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student
  • The problem with every generation as they get older is to view their own childhood through rose-coloured spectacles and state quite narrow-mindedly that this current generation is smutty, disrespectful and crass.
  • Independence was recast as outward-looking and internationalist rather than narrow-minded and dangerous. Why Would Scotland Leave the U.K.?
  • Some people easily give up a chance or some potential probably because of a narrow-minded and negative point of view.
  • America desperately needs a reborn, moderate Republican Party freed from narrow-minded religious ideology and ruralism that will return the nation to its former democratic values and multilateral policies. Eric Margolis: Why I'm a Rogue Republican
  • A mean wretch that cannot vie with another in virtue will assail him with malignity: -- The narrow-minded envier will somehow manage to revile thee, who in thy presence might have the tongue of his utterance struck dumb. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
  • Good education, untainted by narrow-minded politicians, provides the basis for a healthy society and democracy.
  • The narrow-minded bigotry of the townspeople and of the Finch family is hard for Scout to cope with.
  • Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot of acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Mark Twain 
  • These were vain, paranoid and profanity-laced gems in which she referred to Levi Johnston as a "coached puppet" and Newt Gingrich as an "egotistical, narrow-minded machine goon. Dana Milbank: How I survived my Palin-free February
  • The younger priests -- narrow-minded and biased -- those who had just entered into provincial curacies -- were frequently the greater bigots. The Philippine Islands
  • Where have we seen this narrow-minded extremist view before?
  • Laying down a moral code and enforcing it with bans, punishment and guilt, produces petty, narrow-minded people.
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • Maria Friedman makes the innkeeper the epitome of narrow-minded prejudice, Jo Stone-Fewings embodies the idiocy of the local squirearchy and Teddy Kempner is the boobyish village bobby. The Invisible Man – review
  • So, although still of a twitter with amazement at Miss JESSIMINA'S announcement, I considered it the better part of valour to corroborate it with promptitude, rather than incur the shocking punches and kicks of numerous athletic young commercials; and, upon hearing the piece of good news, Mrs MANKLETOW exploded into lachrymation, saying that she was divested of narrow-minded racial colour prejudices, and had from the first regarded me as a beloved son. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • How can you trust someone so narrow-minded that he will fight to end public funding for art exhibits he disagrees with, but expects taxpayers to foot the legal bill for his own idiotic blunder?
  • Before we subscribe to the narrative of decline promoted by critics of the university, we might think of the narrow-mindedness of our educational beginnings.
  • The influence of narrow-minded views peculiar to the earlier ages of civilization led in all languages to a confusion of ideas in the synonymic use of the words 'earth' and 'world', while the common expressions 'voyages round the world', 'map of the world', and 'new world', afford further illustrations of the same confusion. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
  • These days, people think less of John Paul's contribution to the ending of the cold war, and more of his dogmatism, narrow-mindedness and sheer wrong-headedness.
  • He must not now besmear that with parochialism, narrow-mindedness and partiality.
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 
  • The villagers displayed the typical narrow-mindedness of a small community.
  • From the partial representations of narrow-minded bigots, who paint the Deity from their own gloomy conceptions, the young are too often frighted from the paths of virtue; despairing of ideal perfections, they give up all virtue as unattainable, and start aside from the road which they falsely suppose strewed with thorns. The History of Emily Montague
  • If one remains narrow-minded, ignorant and intolerant of others this dream is impossible.
  • Visit their website for reactionary, narrow-minded tripe!
  • I think it would be more correct to argue that Lewis was a fine scholar who avoided the pitfalls of academic narrow-mindedness because of a combination of things: his great love of truth, the "catholicity" of his perspective even though he had a certain dislike for Rome, and his desire to reach a broad, popular audience without compromising essentials. Colson: Lewis successful because he wasn't an evangelical
  • The more selfish and narrow-minded interests are allowed to rule, the fewer good things there are for the country and the citizens as a whole.
  • That they should be doing so for the selfish, narrow-minded, hidebound partisan purposes of avoiding defeat at the hands of the electorate rather than out of any grand point of principle makes their act of dishonest and dishonourable perfidiousness all the more shameful. RIP The UK : Casually Butchered For The Convenience & Well-Being Of Socialism
  • This is not the way narrow-minded blockheads behave.
  • ” And, as I am afraid it is not permissible to speak of this form of opposition to scientific education in the past tense; may we not expect to be told that this, not only omission, but prohibition, of “mere literary instruction and education” is a patent example of scientific narrow-mindedness? Science and Culture
  • I was narrow-minded in the beginning and used to regard judo as the only martial art.
  • It has not happened yet, because of the unmodernized structure of EU patenting, and narrow-minded EU legislation having left out any funding, grant, or incentive for intermediaries or service companies.
  • It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. 

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