释义 |
doctrinairedoc‧tri‧naire /ˌdɒktrəˈneə◂ $ ˌdɑːktrəˈner◂/ adjective formal - Scalia is perhaps the most doctrinaire of the court's conservative judges.
- He didn't get on at graduate school at Harvard, finding it pretentious and doctrinaire.
- Hers was a brave demonstration against those whose doctrinaire divisions have caused so much confrontation, pain and death through the ages.
- In any case they did not inherit the doctrinaire restrictions of their elders.
- The schedule seemed doctrinaire on paper, as Communist theories do, but its key in practice was flexibility.
- There is nothing doctrinaire about our approach to the matter.
- We do not want to be dictated to by born-again Protestants or doctrinaire Catholics.
- What actually happened was that a less doctrinaire magistracy put local taxes up in order to provide bread for poor families.
certain that your beliefs or opinions are correct and unwilling to change them: The party followed an increasingly doctrinaire course. |