What's the difference between dogmatizer and magisterial?
Dogmatizer
Definition:
(n.) One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
(2) Feelings of guilt were related significantly to disaffected patterns such as dogmatism (p less than .001), hostility (p less than .001), and aggression (p less than .05), which suggests a turning inward of feelings of anger and disappointment in addition to their outward expression.
(3) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
(4) Today the overestimation of human understanding is reflected in a dogmatic adherence to specific professional or idealogically biased doctrines and in the dubious ideal of a purely empirical science with its limited applicability to mankind.
(5) Yet, as Jonathan Portes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research has argued, a less dogmatic and more pragmatic government could borrow for a £30bn public works programme, creating infrastructure and jobs, for an annual cost of £150m a year.
(6) The recent advances in dental science have become superior to what they were just a few short years ago; however, we must never forget the variabilities of human responses to any of our treatment techniques, and we must not be dogmatic in our approach.
(7) The physician should assume a flexible attitude in this expanding field, and rigid dogmatic criteria should be avoided.
(8) Pavlov dogmatically refused to acknowledge that classical conditioning can be mediated by subcortical regions of the large cerebral hemispheres.
(9) Momentum Hastings seems pleasantly free of the kind of dogmatic, acrimonious squabbles that have recently engulfed the movement at national level.
(10) Readers were outraged by her dogmatism and superiority, furious about what they saw as cultural stereotyping and appalled by the kind of parenting that many commentators deemed "child abuse".
(11) Two major tenets, the disease conception of alcoholism and mandatory abstinence as a goal of treatment are reviewed, and insufficient evidence is found to support a dogmatic position on either.
(12) There is much in the system to arouse the suspicion of a dogmatic Conservative: the block grant; performance indicators; the fact that the whole thing was dreamed up by Labour.
(13) Congress not backing down on Iran nuclear deal as bill could face veto Read more The committee’s ranking Democrat, Maryland’s Senator Ben Cardin, is another pivotal figure who has proved much less dogmatic in his opposition to the process than his predecessor Menendez, who was conveniently forced to step aside after the Department of Justice indicted him on corruption charges.
(14) This development can only be understood as a social neurosis, with the narcistic frustation of the intellectual class as its cause, and grandiose claims, intolerance, dogmatic thinking and destructive behaviour as its symptoms.
(15) Instruments were adopted or adapted to assess the following items: knowledge of the grief process, personality traits of empathy and dogmatism, fear of death, fear of interacting with the dying, attitudes toward working with terminally ill clients as part of the professional role of dietitians, and clinical performance.
(16) Acknowledgement of this fact should lead one to appraise critically other papers giving dogmatic statements regarding therapeutic ranges of anticonvulsant plasma levels.
(17) And there is something about the education debate that polarises almost everyone into the most dogmatic positions – she would rather never have children herself, she declares at one point, than have to send them to a London state school.
(18) There are two few well-controlled studies of the use of cytotoxic agents to make dogmatic statements regarding their use in the treatment of rheumatic disorders.
(19) It's all too easy for clear and consistent to become prescriptive and dogmatic – not to mention unrealistic.
(20) Careful analysis of recently published clinical trials invalidates a dogmatic attitude in the debate of inotropic versus vasodilator therapy.
Magisterial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic.
(a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sylvia Walby, in her new book, The Future of Feminism , adjudicates on this magisterially.
(2) Black women who had borne one or more children in the 5 years preceding the study and who were resident on white-owned farms were sampled in a multistage cluster procedure from the population of two magisterial districts of the southern Transvaal, Ventersdorp and Balfour.
(3) He was an astonishing figure, as Tim Hilton’s magisterial 2002 biography of him proves.
(4) He stressed that it was “not a magisterial document” but “a work in progress” that provided the basis for another synod next autumn.
(5) Prepared by the Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Donum Vitae is intended as a magisterial teaching document that invites further reflection on the relationship between natural moral law and reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization.
(6) Valid comparisons between the MRs of the rural areas and either Soweto or the 34 'selected' magisterial districts cannot be made.
(7) Whenever I think of carers and their management, I always think of Peter Thompson's magisterial account of the First World War entitled Lions Led By Donkeys, which neatly encapsulates the lack of wherewithal the further up the chain of command one goes.
(8) What a fall there has been, from that magisterial orator who lived for the supremacy of the law to the present incumbent, Chris Grayling: not a lawyer , and not seeming to understand, much less respect, the ideals of justice under the law that his party used to stand for.
(9) Lionel Messi delivered a "magisterial" display to inspire Barcelona to a 4-0 win over Milan and complete a remarkable comeback that took his side into the quarter-finals of the Champions League .
(10) Simon Heffer, author of a magisterial biography of Powell, seemed irritated by my emphasis on the "send them back" aspect of Powell's policy when we discussed Powell's legacy on the radio last year.
(11) The critical response was overwhelming - "magisterial", "scrupulously fair", "exemplary".
(12) Mortality rates (MRs) for cancer in black men and women, aged 25-74 years, in the 34 'selected' (urban) magisterial districts were calculated for 1980 and compared with the MRs for cancer in 1970.
(13) With his usual magisterial disdain, Godard again declined to visit the Croisette, but shook things up with another free-form essay in the vein he's developed over the past two decades — a radically fragmented flash-fry of sounds, texts, images and gags, and this time, all in 3D.
(14) Even Liam Fox admits crashing out of the single market without new arrangements would be “bad” for Britain, itself a magisterial understatement.
(15) Then came a volume on Jesus (in the Past Masters series in 1978), as well as acclaimed and magisterial biographies: WH Auden (1981), winner of the EM Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984: a ground-breaking life of Ezra Pound (A Serious Character: The Life Of Ezra Pound, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize in 1988); Benjamin Britten (1992); and more controversial studies of Robert Runcie (which made use of what turned out to be indiscreet tapes) and the television playwright Denis Potter (which alleged that Potter availed himself of the services of prostitutes).
(16) It looks very likely, with magazine publishers – in the wake of Private Eye , the Spectator , the New Statesman and, for heaven's sake, a thunderously magisterial Economist – following suit.
(17) Sampling of both inpatient trauma cases and those seen in casualty departments took place in 6 state and 5 private hospitals located within or nearby the Johannesburg magisterial district.
(18) This is a pity, not just because the whole idea of democracy implies an informed electorate (which in this area is something we don't have) but also because there is plenty of drama and interest in the world of money – as Kynaston's magisterial history amply demonstrates.
(19) His book, The Compleat Conductor, is a magisterial examination of the mistakes that conductors from Toscanini to Rattle have made.
(20) As Peter Ackroyd writes in his magisterial London: The Biography : “If London were a living thing, we would say all of its optimism and confidence have returned.