(n.) One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The doctrinaire principles of integration are also described, as well as its practical advantages and disadvantages.
(2) It would be ironic indeed if a strategy of taking on sacred cows in the end unravels through being too doctrinaire.
(3) But even among these, the people from Acre Lane were known as being particularly doctrinaire, and quite centralist."
(4) Back then, a Conservative government also exhibited a strong doctrinaire preference for private over public ownership.
(5) The press beat them up if they change course, and their more doctrinaire supporters denounce them as traitors.
(6) The author cautions against doctrinaire attitudes and advocates thoughtful adjustment of goals and methods to meet the needs of the various parties and situations involved in the treatment of the schizophrenic patient.
(7) [A few months ago, I signed a letter with Monbiot and others to British Prime Minister David Cameron, arguing that environmentalists were dressing up their doctrinaire technophobic opposition to all things nuclear behind scaremongering and often threadbare arguments about cost.
(8) Alexander Sayer Gard-Murray Oxford • Never was a word so misused as the application of the term “radicalisation” to the mental abduction of young people by doctrinaire and violent adherents of Islam.
(9) What a load of rubbish.” • “The Five Year Forward View, which was co-authored with CQC, Monitor, the Trust Development Authority, Public Health England and Health Education England … So it was authored by people who know sweet f-all about primary care.” • “Not even simple Simon understands what he is talking about ... after helping to wreck the NHS as Blair’s adviser he has had further training in mindless, stupid and deranged ‘management’ at the immoral United Health ... his plan regurgitates all the failed rubbish from the past and wilfully avoids the real crisis ... the catastrophically deranged and damaging NHS changes since his 2000 wrecking ‘plan’ started the deluded managerial non-evidence-based cult of willful blind doctrinaire willful stupidity.” One can expect that some doctors might be so close to the end of their tether that they express themselves in this, dare I say, unprofessional way.
(10) For many years he remained a staunch supporter of and contributor to Analog, the SF magazine edited by John W Campbell, a doctrinaire editor who had no interest in literary values.
(11) The result is a woman often depicted as formidable, arrogant and doctrinaire.
(12) He did not fit the classic profile of a doctrinaire intellectual from Spain’s communist-led left.
(13) John Howard was a skilled politician and strategist while Tony Abbott is just an awkward doctrinaire.
(14) Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt – until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand.
(15) The other thing that always struck me about her was that she never became doctrinaire, and she never lost sight of people, the great and the small.
(16) New facts about his first teacher, Jean-Pierre Gorsse, indicate that he, too, was a student of the Doctrinaires and that a benefice requiring the tonsure passed to Pinel when Gorsse married in 1759.
(17) As you can see, I'm just a doctrinaire liberal at heart - quite why I keep getting called rightwing is only mysterious to me.
(18) He was open-hearted in the big things and narrow and doctrinaire in every other respect.
(19) Doctrinaire fanaticisms increase markedly in other places in the globe with endemic shortages while solid values lack in the societies of abundance.
(20) So doctrinaire have Berlin and Brussels been in imposing neoliberal strictures on Greece – not just deep budget cuts in the midst of recession but the dismantling of collective bargaining and the privatisation of state assets – that the end result has been economic misery and social division; even the International Monetary Fund has sometimes seemed to balk at their hardline approach.
Indoctrinate
Definition:
(v. t.) To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue with, principles or doctrines; to teach; -- often followed by in.
Example Sentences:
(1) Breivik, for instance, congratulated himself in his manifesto for becoming a “self-financed and self-indoctrinated single individual attack cell”.
(2) Once the young man was indoctrinated and trained, the FSB sent him back to the United States with instructions to set off a bomb at the next big sporting event.
(3) They are simply places to which kids are sent to be indoctrinated from dawn till dusk, and it is a scandal that the government has failed to deal with them for so long.” The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations did not return Education Guardian’s calls.
(4) Focus on the Family, for example, has developed a " True Tolerance " program to defend "parental rights" and help students stand up to "homosexual indoctrination" and "bullying" of Christians in public schools – by opposing anti-bullying programs that work to make schools safer for LGBT and gender non-conforming students.
(5) The current generation of fighters sees these children as better and more lethal fighters than themselves, because rather than being converted into radical ideologies they have been indoctrinated into these extreme values from birth, or a very young age.” Not having been corrupted by living according to secular values, they are considered purer than adult fighters.
(6) The long-term solution to the constant reincarnation of radical Islamic political movements doesn’t lie in grand public gestures like anti-terrorism funding, strong statements of condemnation, or “rehabilitation clinics” for radicals, but in dismantling state-sponsored religious indoctrination.
(7) The tale of virginal Anastasia Steele and her indoctrination into the world of BDSM by billionaire sadist Christian Grey is now stuff of literary legend.
(8) "If it was not for the case brought by myself, our young people would still be being indoctrinated with this political spin," added Mr Dimmock, who was refused permission to appeal against the judge's decision, but can renew his application in the appeal court itself.
(9) Analysts believe this is intended to emphasise the importance of the "Socialism in Our Style" policy while trying to reduce the popularity of South Korean products which pose a challenge to ideological indoctrination.
(10) Karzai’s willingness to send men to India while spurning Pakistan enraged Pakistan’s generals, who believed the future leaders of the Afghan army were being indoctrinated by their mortal enemies.
(11) Theorising about Frozen, talkshow host Kevin Swanson said satan had infiltrated the studio in the mid-1980s with the intention of indoctrinating preschoolers in homosexuality and bestiality.
(12) A redefinition of the criteria indicating patient "success" has evolved from achieving satisfaction through excellent vision derived from the optimum optical correction, to satisfaction obtained through patient selection and indoctrination to wear an optically inferior device.
(13) The idea behind it was to teach little girls how to become wives; it illustrates how much of our culture is indoctrinated into us through play and leisure.
(14) [Lecturers were] even commending students who didn’t raise examples of News Corp for criticism, given it’s such an easy option.” Jenna Price, a senior lecturer in journalism at UTS, said the only thing students were being indoctrinated with was “speaking truth to power”.
(15) The most frequently reported types of ritual abuse are outlined, and a clinical syndrome is presented which includes dissociative states with satanic overtones, severe post-traumatic stress disorder, survivor guilt, bizarre self abuse, unusual fears, sexualization of sadistic impulses, indoctrinated beliefs, and substance abuse.
(16) Many people view these women, girls and their children as a direct threat, fearing that they have been indoctrinated and radicalised by JAS [Jama’atul ahl al-sunnah li da’awati wal jihad, the name of the group commonly known as Boko Haram].
(17) After attending Military Indoctrination for Medical Service Officers, newly commissioned nurses attend the program at one of 10 Air Force medical centers before going to their permanent duty stations.
(18) But the indoctrination appeared to be strongest at the University of Sydney, where the entire first major lecture focused on News Corp’s power and its impact on journalism, irrespective of the fact that it is one of the largest employers of journalists in Australia,” Markson wrote.
(19) (Allen issued a detailed rebuttal of the allegations , and claimed Dylan had been indoctrinated by her mother.)
(20) We have no axe to grind against any media company but discuss them all without fear or favour.” Many media and journalism students were offended by Markson’s claims they were being indoctrinated.