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as in conservative
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
it took a while for some of the more narrow-minded members of management to be persuaded to modernize the dress code
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as in parochial
not broad or open in views or opinions
narrow-minded people who instinctively feared and shunned those from different cultures
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And this kind of thinking is just so narrow-minded and patronizing.
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Shadi Hamid, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
As such, strong rulers keep narrow-minded bureaucrats from leading their country into costly miscalculations.
—Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2023
Despite the ill-conceived and narrow-minded arguments made by those who believe that atonement and rehabilitation are inconsequential, my colleagues and I in the criminal justice system have seen firsthand how that thinking is irrefutably false.
—Aisha Braveboy, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2024
Sweepingly ridiculed as one of 2012’s worst albums, that judgment, five years later, feels wildly narrow-minded.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 29 Feb. 2024
Critics have blamed it for upholding a narrow-minded model of relationships as heterosexual and monogamous.
—Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
The results of Netanyahu’s narrow-minded path have led to catastrophe for both Israelis and Palestinians and nearly constant border fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
—TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
The critical response to the 1993 Biennial was almost shockingly narrow-minded: Many writers were furious that the exhibition included significantly fewer white men than usual.
—Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
Wide-eyed wonder becomes blind faith, just as sharp-eyed skepticism curdles into narrow-minded cynicism.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
Shadi Hamid, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
As such, strong rulers keep narrow-minded bureaucrats from leading their country into costly miscalculations.
—Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2023
Despite the ill-conceived and narrow-minded arguments made by those who believe that atonement and rehabilitation are inconsequential, my colleagues and I in the criminal justice system have seen firsthand how that thinking is irrefutably false.
—Aisha Braveboy, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2024
Sweepingly ridiculed as one of 2012’s worst albums, that judgment, five years later, feels wildly narrow-minded.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 29 Feb. 2024
Critics have blamed it for upholding a narrow-minded model of relationships as heterosexual and monogamous.
—Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
The results of Netanyahu’s narrow-minded path have led to catastrophe for both Israelis and Palestinians and nearly constant border fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
—TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
The critical response to the 1993 Biennial was almost shockingly narrow-minded: Many writers were furious that the exhibition included significantly fewer white men than usual.
—Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
Wide-eyed wonder becomes blind faith, just as sharp-eyed skepticism curdles into narrow-minded cynicism.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
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