(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.
Philosophy
Definition:
(n.) Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.
(n.) A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.
(n.) Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.
(n.) Reasoning; argumentation.
(n.) The course of sciences read in the schools.
(n.) A treatise on philosophy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(2) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(3) This chapter describes a systematic approach to the art of collection for services rendered, based primarily on a pay-as-you-go philosophy.
(4) Finally, the general philosophy of BOSS and applications to a multi-processor assembly are discussed.
(5) However, marketing has to be understood correctly as a philosophy providing a means of approaching the establishing, maintaining and enhancing patient or customer relationships and not as a narrowly defined set of tools.
(6) This communication deals with Leidy's life, his philosophy, and his unique dedication to the study of nature.
(7) To empower these nurses to respond effectively, it is imperative that the profession be reclarified as a specialty with a distinct philosophy and mission.
(8) If the experts are correct, he will elaborate this homespun philosophy before a necessarily adoring congress, confirming that it replaces his father’s songun (“military first”) mantera.
(9) Foodmakers will also burble on about their “philosophy” or their “mission” or their “strong core values” or the “adventure” or “journey” they have been on in order to get their products triumphantly shelved in Waitrose .
(10) That idea isn't popular with many in the technology world who have watched Google morph from a company that says "it's best to do one thing really well" (as its corporate philosophy page still insists) to one which seems to want more and more personal data all the time.
(11) The title illustrates this philosophy with the simple words: "Invitation to join the government of Britain."
(12) The survey was designed to determine the philosophies and techniques used by prosthodontic specialists in treatment involving the removable partial denture.
(13) Ideas drawn from contemporary philosophy of science show how different "schools" derive separate, incompatible sets of scientific evidence from the same clinical situation.
(14) Part 1 of the bibliography printed here covers the following topics: 1) professional goals and philosophy of midwives; 2) education of midwives regarding family planning practice; 3) education of patients in family planning; and 4) midwives' practice with specific birth control methods.
(15) This paper is an account of the process of identifying a college of nursing and midwifery corporate philosophy.
(16) Based on seven years' experimentation, this paper provides an overview of the philosophy behind this particular curriculum and describes, in brief, four educational methods which have proven useful.
(17) She was 26, a philosophy student and a part-time travel agent, according to those who knew her.
(18) From now on I will treat them as they deserve: badly, with zero humanity.” Striker Zé Love: “The president speaks his mind.” Soundest philosophy Italy: Inter striker Mauro Icardi, reportedly sacking his agent of 10 years and replacing him with wife Wanda Nara, the ex-partner of former team-mate Maxi López .
(19) Palliative care must be based on a philosophy that acknowledges the inherent worth and dignity of each person.
(20) And like Warhol, he saw his own philosophy and his belief not within himself but in the world around him.” Barely drawing breath, Shaw cites a painful image of Ruskin “as a wounded animal searching for cover in a re-created world”.