narrow-mindedness

NOUN
  1. an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior
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How To Use narrow-mindedness In A Sentence

  • 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 
  • ” 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 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 villagers displayed the typical narrow-mindedness of a small community.
  • He must not now besmear that with parochialism, narrow-mindedness and partiality.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 
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