| 单词 | small-minded |
| 例句 | Her bartering and bickering had then seemed small-minded to him; now he was enough older to realize how valiantly she had fought for those under her care. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a small-minded and ludicrous insult, sure, but his mocking of my intellect, his marginalizing of my young self, carried with it a larger dismissiveness. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z How small-minded and hypocritical mortal man was, for even as they despised the enders of life, they loved nature—which, in those days, took every human life ever conceived. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I remember that some small-minded neighbor put it out, and children would tease us, that we ate “fried grass.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Calixte was nearly fluent by now, but she had no intention of spending her time helping “small-minded old men.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z So you know, there’s my frustration with Rumsfeld, but he’s sort of a small-minded hack. Phil Klay on His Iraq War Book 'Redeployment' 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z He went on to apologise to Rachel Polonsky, Robert Service and his lawyer, for actions he called "stupid", adding that "Some of the reviews were small-minded and ungenerous, but they were not intended to harm." Poison pen reviews were mine, confesses historian Orlando Figes 2010-04-23T12:11:00Z Instead, this novel for adults is filled with a variety of people like Harry’s aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley: self-absorbed, small-minded, snobbish and judgmental folks, whose stories neither engage nor transport us. Book Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J. K. Rowling 2012-09-27T05:00:00Z She added, “This just further demonstrates how biased the fashion magazine industry is, and shows how insecure and small-minded Anna Wintour really is.” Melania Trump’s chief of staff Stephanie Grisham resigns with two weeks left in the administration 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The country, he wrote, was “corrupt, small-minded, diseased. Money is the god here.” William Gedney’s Travels in India 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z He grew up hating the system, like so many people in the rigid, small-minded 1950s. To Live Outside the Law by Leaf Fielding ? review 2011-07-07T13:13:00Z Born in Switzerland, Mr. Frank emigrated to New York at the age of 23 as an artistic refugee from what he considered to be the small-minded values of his native country. Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Therefore, it is not a surprise that Herbert—who clearly sympathizes with Mooney’s career-long vendetta against Republicans—would find our book “petty” and “small-minded.” Progressives don’t hold a monopoly on science 2013-01-03T23:02:00Z She was tightfisted with tradesmen, and fears that England was being overrun by foreigners provoked a small-minded racism that was particularly unattractive. Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David - review 2013-02-16T08:01:01Z In 1968, the notion that our true enemy could be the callousness, hypocrisy, and small-minded ignorance of our own leaders was fashionable. What “M*A*S*H” Taught Us 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z It's a hateful and small-minded way to treat artists and audiences in this country. Folly of banning Moonfleece 2010-03-30T15:20:00Z After 40 more years, we can see Nixon as personally vindictive and socially generous, a small-minded man with a big-picture worldview. Cranky Guy: Nixon's Still the One 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z Sometimes you'll run into really small-minded people who feel the need to challenge you on your decision to not drink. 5 ways to stay sober at a cocktail party when taking a break from alcohol 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z According to the American Psychological Association, “masculinity ideology” is a certain set of descriptive, prescriptive, and small-minded perceptions about boys and men. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Americans have become, Edmundson says, wholly pragmatic and small-minded, always on the lookout for the main chance and conditioned to be greedy for the gaudy trash supplied by our consumerist overlords. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Which to me is a very small-minded and shortsighted view, but it’s the accountant’s view and the lawyer’s view. Alex Gibney interview: journey into the seductive world of Scientology 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z “I loved its downtrodden, small-minded, generous people. I loved them; I belonged to them.” She Dared to Write Poetry About Sex. Iranians Loved and Hated Her for It. 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z But lists like these seem small-minded to me, provincial, like visiting a foreign country and only eating at McDonald’s. Everything the Internet taught me about being 39 is a lie 2014-01-11T22:00:00Z Unless, of course, the person I’m speaking to is small-minded. Untamed 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z A former Navy SEAL, Jake Zweig got his start on reality TV as a small-minded loudmouth on the third season of “Top Shot,” the underappreciated marksmanship competition show on the History Channel. Critic’s Notebook: Discovery’s ‘Dude, You’re Screwed’ 2013-12-20T22:30:53Z The only obvious parallels with the Harry Potter books are that, like them, it focuses on teenagers, and is animated by a strong dislike of mean, unsympathetic, small-minded folk. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z The world is full of twitchy, small-minded keyboard warriors who won’t even be able to watch the show, and every single one of them has been driven berserk by the addition of Zari. Sesame Street's new Muppet takes on the Taliban (and the trolls) 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Dawn, Linda and Ramsay are just as gossipy and small-minded at the beginning as they are at the very distant end of the novel. Reading ‘The Terranauts,’ by T.C. Boyle, is like being trapped in Tupperware 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z “My ideas have infuriated a bunch of small-minded men,” she says, “but the number of people who think it’s fun, silly, happy, and hilarious have also grown.” Be grateful for what was good: One dozen musicians share the art they loved the most in 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “The small-minded, jealous thoughts of those possessing less willpower than myself are irrelevant,” I said. I Was Misinformed: The Dieting Supremacist. Hate Her. 2014-04-04T23:28:43Z At this point, I should say that I grew up in a small town, and here is what I know: small towns certainly shelter the small-minded and parochial. A road-tripping re-examination of the poems of Richard Hugo 2010-06-04T20:01:00Z This seems sensible, as well as small-minded and skittish. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z But he looks miserable as he suffers through them, and when the cobbler-poet Hans Sachs attempts a rapprochement, he turns his back and walks away, small-minded to the end. Opera Review: On Opposite Shores: 'Meistersinger' and 'Rosenkavalier' 2011-05-24T18:30:06Z But he ended by saying, "The people who want to ban books are prudish, small-minded, and self-righteous, and they need to get over it." Building bridges with the book-banners 2010-09-29T11:00:00Z He apologised to Polonsky, Service and his lawyer – "to whom I gave incorrect information" – for actions he called "stupid", adding: "Some of the reviews were small-minded and ungenerous, but they were not intended to harm." Historian Orlando Figes admits posting Amazon reviews that trashed rivals 2010-04-23T21:26:00Z I decided to move out of London to live among the small-minded bigots on Exmoor who couldn't tell the difference between a Gucci original and a knockoff. Girl Least Likely To by Liz Jones – digested read 2013-07-22T06:00:20Z Then it’s back to their mean little town with its small-minded dictators and frustrated, hothouse desires. ‘To the Stars’ Review: Rebels in Bobby Socks, Yearning for More 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Oh, the vulgarity, the venality, the small-minded nastiness of those loathsome souls now crowding the stage at the Duke on 42nd Street. Review: In ‘The Government Inspector,’ Dumb and Dumber, Deliciously 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Notions of Southern gallantry were often at odds with the small-minded cruelties of racial inequality. Lonnae O’Neal: How I felt when the Confederate flag finally came down 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z He understood how the small-minded are so often undermined by their greed and crass desires. ArtsBeat: Old Nightmares Revisited in “Weird Fantasy” 2014-05-05T17:16:47Z Instead, this novel for adults is filled with a variety of people like Harry's aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley: self-absorbed, small-minded, snobbish and judgmental folks, whose stories neither engage nor transport us. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z It’s evident that Mr. Masud loves all his characters, even the small-minded ones — the sign of a real director. Tareque Masud, Bangladeshi Director, Dies at 54 2011-08-24T22:26:52Z With so many Black singers to call upon, the town of River City, Iowa, and its small-minded, gossipy citizenry, came across here as a racially mixed community. She Made Glimmerglass a True Festival. Now She’s Moving On. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z This stuff is small-minded, catty, humiliating and pathetic. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z They seemed small-minded and cruel from Rooney’s depictions of them, and not exactly trustworthy. Bringing ‘Normal People’ to Sexy, Soundtracked Life 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z As a the first Muslim congressman, he freaked out small-minded conservatives by getting sworn in on Thomas Jefferson’s Koran. Americans want justice for George Floyd. Keith Ellison is in charge of getting it. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z “This just further demonstrates how biased the fashion magazine industry is, and shows how insecure and small-minded Anna Wintour really is.” Stephanie Grisham is Trump’s communications czar. Only most people wouldn’t know it. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Instead, we have the word “catty”—or, more obscurely, “cattish,” or “cat-witted”—to mean spiteful and small-minded. The Bittersweet Announcement of a New Beatrix Potter Book 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z A lot of small-minded people out where we live raise chickens. Untamed 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z "Go West" was a celebration of leaving oppressive small-minded towns and moving out to California where there was acceptance for gays. The healing power of "Philadelphia" 2011-05-18T18:01:00Z FAM’s exhortations include the question, “Are you the man who takes the control?,” and Krystal, with her mulish, small-minded, amoral determination to win at any cost, is that man. Review: Kirsten Dunst Fights for Her Piece of the Pyramid Scheme 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The name Babbitt entered the language — a “Babbitt” was a ridiculous conformist living in a ridiculously small-minded world. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Thompson, whose presence always reads large, is hardly a natural choice for the small-minded Thorwald. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z She is aware, of course, that in the popular imagination redneck women are small-minded, racist and Republican, but in her own experience this was far from the truth. Beth Ditto: 'I don't think I can act. I'm just really good at talking' 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The genius of Humphries’ conceit was to translate the small-minded, unyielding smugness of the middle-class Australian suburbs in which he grew up into the even more invincible complacency of outrageous, drop-dead stardom. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z David Newman is blunter still: “It’s a shame that Disney’s so small-minded to not honor that,” he said, speculating that the logo might fade out forever. 'Solo' hits the big screen minus one classic 'Star Wars' moment: the Fox Fanfare 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z But when tragedy befalls a student — as it does in Ms. Spark’s story — it’s made clear that it is not the big-hearted teacher who’s to blame but the other, small-minded grown-ups. Review: ‘Dead Poets Society,’ Starring Jason Sudeikis as the Idealistic Teacher 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The theme of outsiders battling small-minded parochialism is more central than ever — the local Dungeons & Dragons club is branded a Satanist cult — but no more compelling. ‘Stranger Things’ Review: Once More Into the Upside Down 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Then she did something that pushed that small-minded thought out of my head. The Angelina Jolie effect at the sexual violence summit 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Don’t feed into the rhetoric created by small-minded people. “Stop the bullsh*t,” Donald Trump: Even an old buddy like Russell Simmons is disgusted with him now 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z I was trying not to simply decide that he was murdered—that bigotry, bureaucratic paralysis and small-minded religious zealotry had killed him, killed him as surely and as effectively as the rope itself. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z Speaking ahead of his appearance, he said he wanted to show people he was not "mean-spirited, small-minded, nasty". I'm A Celebrity 2023: This year's line-up from Nigel Farage to Nella Rose 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z “He thought of colonial as being somewhat small-minded, provincial,” Brunsman said. George Washington University narrows list to replace Colonials moniker 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z “I understand why you hid today … You are a weak, pathetic, small-minded individual.” DeSantis signs bill to carry concealed guns without a permit 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z “I think it’s ridiculous. It’s small-minded, right?” he said. Moir, Weaver back gender-expansive ice dance, pairs teams 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Nations that define themselves by who they're not, that define themselves by rivalries against their big neighbours, no matter how important that has been historically, it seems a bit small-minded. ‘Anyone but England’ – the game Wales do not want 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z At Harvard, Khrushchev’s granddaughter derided Putin as a small-minded KGB lieutenant colonel who had learned “zero lessons” from the Cuban history. Opinion | The lessons of the Cuban missile crisis are lost on Putin 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Does anyone genuinely believe that Republicans in Congress or the mean-spirited, small-minded Trumpians who have taken over so many state legislatures are even the slightest bit interested in elevating the lives of young people? Republicans and the crisis of "manhood": Who are the real sex-obsessed pervs in America? 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z As a soft-spoken PhD with a chip on his shoulder, the MCU’s Bruce Banner would probably never think of himself as being at all sexist or small-minded about women. She-Hulk’s breaking the fourth wall to show you what real power looks like 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z While Trump is cruel, vicious, scheming and small-minded, after his own fashion he is an honest and transparent person. What "revelations"? Trump's Jan. 6 crimes should shock exactly no one 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z And Daniel Stewart Sherman was perfectly cast in the foolproof role of Don, the big, small-minded lug at the factory whose consciousness is raised by Lola’s willingness to empathize even with him. Review: Wayne Brady sashays to the rescue in 'Kinky Boots' at the Hollywood Bowl 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z When Eastman received Jacob’s probing questions, he retorted that the counsel was being “small-minded.” EXPLAINER: The last-ditch plan to have Pence stop Biden win 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z I think she is driven to become all of these personas because she wants to be anyone but the small-minded laundromat owner who can’t see beyond the next bill payment. Everything Everywhere All At Once is an immigrant horror story about tax season 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The ideal child-rearing on the right is about an authoritarian father dictating his child's life, which produces incurious and small-minded bullies. What's the matter with SEL? Successful, well-adjusted adults are the GOP's kryptonite 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Luke said Caldicot, where he grew up, was "not particularly small-minded" but he felt the "expectations that are put on you when you're a little boy". Homophobic slur prompts Wales Millennium Centre show 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z As damaging proposals emerge in more and more states, it’s children who will pay the price for Republicans’ cynical attempts to win votes by inflaming a small-minded and harmful culture war. Opinion | Florida’s harmful ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is just one example of a dark national trend 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z You can bet that no small-minded people will stop them. Perspective | The making of a global citizen means teaching your kids about racism 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Liberalism was an ideology that promoted curiosity, beauty, humor, and freedom — so totally unlike the small-minded and boring conservatives I grew up around. Stop feeding Joe Rogan's trolls: Progressives must reclaim the politics of pleasure 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z It is a party of fascists; angry, small-minded people with no sense of empathy, overwhelmed by their own greed and avarice. Will we really let ourselves be governed by irredeemable morons? That's the choice, America 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z “Virginians don’t deserve petty, small-minded leaders. I would have hoped Speaker Gilbert would try and be a statesman for at least his first full day as speaker.” A divided Virginia General Assembly meets, with outgoing governor cautioning against ‘hyper-partisanship’ 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z He regarded alcohol as a tool for team-building and evinced little patience with regulations or the “small-minded naval officers” who promulgated them. Richard Marcinko, founding commander of elite Navy SEAL force and bestselling author, dies at 81 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z As the issues we face, like the pandemic and climate change, loom ever larger, our politics continues to shrink, increasingly captive to the small-minded and self-interested. Hidden figures: In New Jersey and Mississippi, the COVID death rate is higher than Brazil 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z "Now is not the time for small-minded measures." Labor, green groups urge White House to reject a 'watered-down' infrastructure deal 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z If you do, you’re giving small-minded people control over you that they don’t deserve. Seven steps to surviving cancel culture 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z By lashing out this way, Republicans have once again exposed the small-minded bigotry that fuels their party. GOP cancel culture targets Georgia: Republicans want to silence critics of their war on voting 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z The 24 Kansas senators who voted Wednesday for a bill banning transgender youths from girls and women’s school sports evening voted for small-minded bigotry. Editorial Roundup: Kansas 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Though some small-minded critics have taken them to task for the prevalence of online learning, teachers should instead be thanked for keeping the system running as well as it has. Editorial Roundup: New England 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z In the context of the pandemic, that reasoning is small-minded and shortsighted. Editorial Roundup: New York 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z “Why don’t you pick on someone of your own size and small-minded misogyny? You can start with #PresidentDonaldTrump.” Should we call her 'Dr. Jill Biden'? Absolutely, Michelle Obama and Bette Midler say 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z They are the small-minded nationalists who want to blame everyone but the real villains — the corporate elite — for the West's declining fortunes. Joe Biden can't bring back "normal" politics — nobody can. We need to reinvent it 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Quiet, conservative, flyover country; the place one leaves behind; small-minded, nostalgic, “dying/ With a little patience,” to borrow from T.S. Opinion | Middle America cannot be forgotten unless it first forgets itself 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z If Boys State is a joke, that may well be a sign of its curious integrity — its spot-on approximation of a real-world political system beset by corruption, inefficiency and the whims of small-minded men. Review: In the captivating, sobering 'Boys State,' teenage politicians take the stage 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z The famously small-minded guitarist considered Talking Heads either pretentious or baffling. Chris Frantz: 'If you knew David Byrne, you would not be jealous of him' 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Why don’t you pick on someone of your own size and small-minded misogyny? Should we call her 'Dr. Jill Biden'? Absolutely, Michelle Obama and Bette Midler say 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z This small-minded approach will damage the WHO and disrupt global cooperation in fighting diseases. Opinion | Trump and Pompeo need to stop making the WHO a scapegoat for their failures 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z There might be some pathos to this, if it weren't so small-minded and mean-spirited. What we've lost in the plague — and what we've gained: A chance to remake America 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z His comments were described as “repugnant”, “small-minded” and “a threat to the EU’s future” by Portugal’s prime minister, António Costa. Coronavirus could be final straw for EU, European experts warn 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z He said Hoekstra’s idea was “small-minded” and “utterly undermines the spirit of the EU and is a threat to the EU’s future.” EU tempers fray as virus hits lives, livelihoods, economies 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z "I don't think we should be so small-minded. It really does affect you and we really just need to look after each other." Dua Lipa moves album release forward after leak 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z “But for us it is what is going on in Washington that is small and small-minded.” Democratic presidential candidates attacking Pete Buttigieg as New Hampshire primary nears 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z There will be retribution, and it will be wide-ranging, an epic waste of taxpayer money, an incredible abuse of the executive branch and the resources that come with it, and contemptibly small-minded and petty. Perspective | Trump is the ultimate sore winner. Now he’ll seek revenge. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The open arms of most states and localities do send a convincing message, though — that Americans are not as fearful, hostile and small-minded as Mr. Trump evidently believes. Opinion | Trump invited states and localities to bar refugees. A judge says he can’t do that. 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Republican leaders said the governor’s decision seemed particularly small-minded. Cuomo Blocks Judges Picked by Trump From Officiating Weddings in N.Y. 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z But for a country that is being labeled a “malevolent republic,” accused of losing its soul to small-minded, petty and vindictive ideas, students are proving to be its conscience keepers. Opinion | India’s protests could be a tipping point against authoritarianism 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z “The guards were intimidating and small-minded,” said one American West Berliner who, as a young artist, was sent home to change into more appropriate clothes because the East’s guards took offence at her ripped jeans. The controversial plan to redevelop Checkpoint Charlie 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Lots of people remember the small-minded gesture by the Jets, and the devastating response by the Giants, who went on to collect their fourth Super Bowl victory. Column: Chargers alert: Jets recall when they were second-class citizens at Giants Stadium 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The LinkedIn post described the book as the tale of a heroic businessman, fighting to overcome small-minded enemies—particularly Adams, whom Boback now likes to depict as the cause of Tiversa’s problems. A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Warren fought back against the attacks, casting her challengers as too small-minded or timid for the moment, or as part of an entrenched political system that is dominated by corporations and the wealthy. Warren faces first sustained attack in debate that begins with unified condemnation of Trump 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “His supporters are just as small-minded as he is. They are O.K. with others’ suffering.” The America That Isn’t Polarized 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z The terrorist leader wanted the world to see the U.S. the way he saw it: Mean, hateful, small-minded and cruel. We forgot the lessons of 9/11: Osama bin Laden would love Trump 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z These shifting signals, and this small-minded cruelty, literally offer a glimpse into the future. In the wake of Dorian, Bahamian refugees are greeted by chaos — and Trump's cruelty 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z All that bile came out in this devastating portrait of small-minded, deeply racist Brits in a tiny up-country town. Top 10 books about Burma 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s time to discard, finally, the nagging, jersey-tugging, chronic, small-minded doctrine that we must “contextualize” everything the U.S. women’s national team does as “relative” to the men’s game, writes columnist Sally Jenkins. Sweden hangs on to beat England, take third place in Women’s World Cup 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s time to discard, finally, the nagging, jersey-tugging, chronic, small-minded doctrine that we must “contextualize” everything the U.S. women’s national team does as “relative” to the men’s game, and therefore they must be smaller, lesser. Perspective | The USWNT is after something far more subversive than just better pay 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z In comments published last month, she told Yahoo she considers Trump “sexist,” “misogynistic,” “small-minded,” “racist” and “not a good person.” Trump invites USWNT to White House after Megan Rapinoe says she’s ‘not going’ 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z The soccer star added that President Trump is “sexist,” “misogynistic,” “small-minded,” “racist” and “not a good person.” Megan Rapinoe, U.S. women’s soccer captain, says she’s a ‘walking protest’ and ‘f– you’ to Trump 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z “I always marvel that we can be so small-minded here in Southern California in that we’re trying to fit a square peg into a round hole over and over,” he said. O.C. supervisors lean toward plan to add new JWA general aviation terminal while capping number of private jets 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Rem Koolhaas sees “pea soup and a complete absence of coffee” and “‘Little England’ all over again — a small-minded, prim and grim place.” Essential arts: Why ‘Art in the Age of Black Power’ is the show for right now 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z For the European sophisticate, long a part-time London resident, Brexit would mean “Little England” all over again — a small-minded, prim and grim place without espresso. Will Brexit spell bust for architecture? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z “What it seems to mean now is let’s make America white again and racist again and small-minded again.” Ronald Reagan’s daughter says her father would be ‘horrified’ by Trump’s presidency 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z And don’t be a puppet for widely discredited, small-minded fanatics. Recent Kansas Editorials 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z It soon became clear that there was something going on beyond small-minded avarice and a fear of the unknown. Elementary school 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “Unlike other emotions, disappointment is very tricky to express: it comes out as petty and small-minded,” Haemin writes; it also tends to sound like you’re blaming other people for failing to measure up. Want to transform your life? Stop chasing perfection 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Full-size human beings triumph in the end, however, and it’s too bad they’re of the small-minded, thieving variety: about 3,500 tiny figures get stolen from the model annually. Shrinking the world: why we can't resist model villages 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z He is not a journalist, a small-minded fact-grubber; he is a literary essayist, a self-appointed heir to Herodotus, Cicero, Seneca, and Plutarch, who, in his view, “nudged details to create a closer understanding.” Truth vs. Ego in “The Lifespan of a Fact” 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “The people I ended up with were small-minded,” he said. Meet Tacoma’s own Sugar Ray … Seales. Boxing extraordinaire and Olympic gold medalist 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z But it was a cold and small-minded example of placing party over country. Opinion | America, we are on our own 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z He added, “It’s been a long time in this country since there was such a big moral gap between a big-hearted American people and their small-minded leaders.” Opinion | How Trump makes America look weak 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Grewal, who wears a turban and full beard, called on Twitter for an end to “small-minded intolerance.” Radio hosts suspended for slur against Sikh AG return to air 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z “Sometimes, I endure it alone. Yesterday, all of New Jersey heard it. It’s time to end small-minded intolerance,” he wrote in a tweet. New Jersey radio hosts suspended for calling state attorney general 'turban man' 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z He added: “It’s time to end small-minded intolerance.” The Latest: Attorney general denounces ‘turban man’ slur 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Morgan called it “a pathetically puerile stunt that makes Britain look woefully petty, small-minded and gratuitously offensive.” Donald Trump welcomed by some in U.K. amid Brexit jitters 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The first great misfortune that befell the U.S. and its allies came in November of 2016, when this small-minded parvenu was elected President. Trump Unleashed is a Danger to the World 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Hate speech is protected speech and, no matter how offensive or small-minded, it’s every American’s duty to defend Wisor’s right to make a fool of himself, should the numerous accounts prove accurate. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z But he is certainly an instructive character, an example of the danger of small-minded NFL stereotypes and spiteful former bosses. Rosen says nine teams made mistakes by passing on him 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z What small-minded politicos don’t understand is that the D.C. region is not dependent on Metro. Uber tax increases for Metro 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Every perspective, even the most small-minded and bitter, shows some angle of truth. Readers Respond to the 4.8.18 Issue 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z It is genuinely depressing that small-minded individuals like this are given the capacity to publish massively offensive content such as this. Liddell 'mocks Wales' over Severn crossing 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Putting any personal like/dislike aside, he's alienated progressive democrats with his small-minded attacks on DeBlasio. The Gendered Politics of Andrew Cuomo, Emasculator in Chief 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z I wholeheartedly agree with the March 18 editorial “Mr. Trump’s bullying” that President Trump’s tweet celebrating the firing of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe was nasty and small-minded. Opinion | Was it wrong to fire Andrew McCabe? 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It was an assumption made by our small-minded brethren. This big 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z It went on to criticise "small-minded" critics who questioned its motives. Sanctions did not spur talks, says N Korea 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump acts like a nasty, small-minded despot, not the leader of a democracy more than two centuries old in which rule of law is a sturdy pillar. Opinion | We’re not sure why McCabe was fired. But Trump’s tweet suggests the worst. 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Jeremy Hutchinson's success was based on a mixture of supreme self-confidence and great legal acumen coupled with his strongly held opposition to what he saw as the small-minded Establishment. Obscenity trials QC Hutchinson dies at 102 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Do you scoff at pedantry, love to use new coinages and loan-words, begin sentences with conjunctions just for the hell of it and think Eats, Shoots & Leaves was a book for the small-minded and ignorant? Don’t press send … The new rules for good writing in the 21st century 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Their antipathy is not driven so much by racism, although they are certainly products of it, as by a desperation of small-minded men frightened over their shrinking space in the world. The high jinks and despair of the Southern man from 'Smokey and the Bandit' to the new 'Logan Lucky' 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z After all, one is not always in raptures over this country and its prowess at nurturing, in its own distinctive manner, unsurpassable callousness, matchless greed, small-minded sectarianism, and a gruesome infatuation with firearms. I Have Fallen in Love with American Names 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The good work, the message, the historical wisdom embodied in the galleries where the noose was left can’t be undone by such a small-minded and grotesque gesture. Perspective | What to do with the noose left at the African American Museum? Make it part of the collection. 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Melvoin’s campaign and the outside groups that directed much of the spending to promote him painted a picture of Zimmer as a failed, small-minded politician. Charter-backed candidates win L.A. Unified majority, but can they lead from within? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The practice is wrong, selfish, small-minded and - most wretchedly - devastating to democracy. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Former Romanian world number one Ilie Nastase called Wimbledon organizers "small-minded" after they announced he would not be invited to the Royal Box at this year's championships. Nastase slams 'small-minded' Wimbledon over Royal Box snub 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z And — just like his presidency — his post-presidency will be petty, small-minded and utterly bereft of imagination or inspiration. Donald Trump breaks political mold by staying on offense 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z He has even inspired a pathetic, small-minded man to perform in a parody of him for years on television — the highest form of flattery. Opinion | ‘Killing Bill’ (in the style of noted historian Bill O’Reilly) 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “It’s so small-minded and so beautiful and so I feel hate for so many things but I still love the country,” she says. Swedish musical misfit Ängie: 'It’s nice to have cute things with hard punches' 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z “I don’t know who you think you are, you cowardly, small-minded xenophobe who did this, but you do not speak for the community,” he added. Canadians form 'rings of peace' around mosques after Quebec shooting 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z At their best, they are pious, respectful, and conservative; at their worst they are smug and self-righteous, small-minded and yet capable of broad prejudice. The intolerance of the left: Trump's win as seen from Walt Disney's hometown 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z It is also a fascinating lesson in how even people revered as the brightest minds can at the same time be small-minded, stunted in their development by deeply ingrained racism, sexism and other “isms.” ‘Hidden Figures’ sums up its era and can illuminate our own 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Fellini’s career-long fascination with politics, religion, celebrity and history pop up throughout this imaginative meditation on Rome as a center of classical greatness, corrupted by small-minded moderns and secret cabals. New video: 'American Honey' is a sprawling, sometimes successful, road picture 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z His attacks on the small-minded politicians of his age satisfies the disdain in which contemporary pro-Europeans hold their leaders. Why Europeans are reading Stefan Zweig again 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z But he said the unwillingness of the UK government to use him as an intermediary with Mr Trump showed how "petty, small-minded and tribal" British politics was. Farage wants to be 'bridge' between UK and Trump - BBC News 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z For someone who seems kind of vain and small-minded and not especially bright, the Russian president has exercised a Voldemort-like level of control over this whole process. Pwned by Putin: How the Russian despot ruthlessly trolled our so-called democracy 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Just think how much human capital is left untapped because those in charge are so small-minded. ‘Hidden Figures’ sums up its era and can illuminate our own 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But not Canada - I wouldn't inflict those small-minded vicious fellow Americans of mine on poor Canada. Are You Ready for Some Football … and Riot Gear and Pepper Spray? 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z The details of testimony in the federal trial paint a portrait of a governor and his aides in Trenton as a small-minded, cynical coterie to whom political spite is all in a day’s work. Chris Christie is more tarnished than ever 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z This is the small-minded politics of European vindictiveness. A Pound of Warning 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z What a small-minded, self-righteous, self-serving and hypocritical woman. Phyllis Schlafly, ‘First Lady’ of a Political March to the Right, Dies at 92 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Far too often they are portrayed by leaders as uneducated and small-minded – clinging to their guns and religion. Hillary's Empathy Gap 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z But we need leaders to remind us of our own potential to rise above this small-minded behavior. Ellen's No Racist 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But management theorists now say it is not only small-minded bosses that star workers need to overcome; it is also their colleagues. The bane of brilliance 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z If not small-minded contempt for a Gold Star family, then what? Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Together, they slammed Trump, casting him as a small-minded, self-interested billionaire who would destroy the country’s economy. Clinton, Warren meet for first 2016 campaign event 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z His company released a statement: “History will judge those involved unfavorably and the outcome demonstrates the foolish, small-minded and parochial mentality which dominates the current Scottish Government’s dangerous experiment with wind energy.” Trump’s top example of foreign experience: A Scottish golf course losing millions 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z A portrait of mourning, small-minded oblivion or agrarian stoicism? Steven Spielberg-produced 'American Gothic' paints by numbers and chokes on its own pretensions 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z My earliest political memories feature Gladstone’s internationalism triumphing over small-minded provincialism. E.U. referendum exposes Britain’s political decay 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z And the dramatic pinnacle of his career is a turn in Band of Brothers as the small-minded, petty Captain Sobel, where Schwimmer’s capacity for resentment found a full outlet. No longer 'on a break': is the Schwimmnaissance finally here? 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z I have little doubt that most of the are small-minded, petty people who take special delight in his racism and misogyny. Jonathan Chait is wrong: Trump supporters aren’t stupid. They’re mostly racists who are successfully sticking it to the establishment 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z He denounced political parties as instruments of the small-minded and self-interested, yet he was the most skilled political partisan of his era. Thomas Jefferson: master of all and of everything 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Around the country, small-minded activists have made battlegrounds of what should be safe, quiet, clean places for people to do their private business quickly and easily. We got rid of gender-specific bathrooms, and it’s been fine 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z We are literally small-minded most of the time. What LSD tells us about human nature | Marc Lewis 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z What if the America that others emulate is the small-minded, self-interested version? Trump's 'America First' Foreign Policy Will Leave America Behind 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z The small-minded, shortsighted isolationists ignore reason and logic, instead substituting panic and fear. After Brussels, the West must reject dangerous isolationism 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Johnson used a colourful metaphor to describe the arguments of some in the remain camp as being negative and small-minded in the face of an opportunity to leave and restart negotiations with the EU. EU referendum: British exit would be 'poison', says German finance minister 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z In her famous account of the trial, the philosopher Hannah Arendt described Eichmann as a small-minded functionary, more concerned with the managerial hows of his job than the moral or existential whys. Why Adolf Eichmann’s final message remains so profoundly unsettling | Giles Fraser 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z “History will judge those involved unfavorably and the outcome demonstrates the foolish, small-minded and parochial mentality which dominates the current Scottish Government’s dangerous experiment with wind energy,” the statement said. Trump Loses Legal Case in Scotland, But May Get The Last Laugh 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z But that is a stretch, as well as dispiritingly small-minded. Battling with Britain 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Don’t feed into the rhetoric created by small-minded people. Russell Simmons to Donald Trump: 'Stop the bulls***' 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z It is reminding us that the art of taking offence is used by small-minded people to gain an unwarranted advantage over the rest of us. A Point of View: Why people shouldn't feel the need to censor themselves - BBC News 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z It captures the thrill of anonymity, the promise of a place where people who don’t fit in elsewhere can live without the disapproval of small-minded neighbours. Privacy is starting to seem like a very 20th-century anomaly | David Shariatmadari 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Minaj’s actions made sense, in some ways: Even though I had no intention of putting her down as a small-minded or silly woman, she was right to call me out. The Passion of Nicki Minaj 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z When applied to human beings, though, this sort of thinking way leads to pettiness, narcissism, and small-minded self-righteousness. Richard Dawkins calling Ahmed Mohamed a fraud is everything wrong with Richard Dawkins 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Former wing commander Tom Neil, 95, is quoted as saying: "It just shows how bigoted he is and how small-minded." Newspaper headlines: Anthem furore dominates press - BBC News 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The Hall enacted a small-minded policy in 2010 to deny families such a spot on the stage in Canton, Ohio. After Sydney Seau, Football Hall of Fame Policy Will Be Tested Again 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Long hard work on policy position papers is for small-minded administrators, bureaucrats and academic nerds, i.e. the very losers that have got us into the mess that we are in. Donald Trump Wins Through Intimidation 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The decision left Bostonians reflecting on whether the city was too small-minded and stodgy to achieve anything big or too smart to be taken in by developers promising Olympic riches. Many in Boston Feel Relief as Olympic Bid Ends, but Others See a Stagnant City 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “But from time to time it is sought by the small-minded – divisive figures propelled by anger, and appealing to the worst instincts in the human condition.” Rick Perry Calls Donald Trump a Cancer and Carnival Act 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Some business owners want to discriminate against American consumers; they want to justify their animus with a narrow religious belief; and those who oppose discrimination are “small-minded and intolerant.” Jeb Bush fails to impress at Falwell's Liberty U 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z "Somebody here is being small-minded and intolerant, and it sure isn't the nuns, ministers and laymen and women who ask only to live and practice their faith," he adds. Jeb Bush to praise 'Christian conscience' at Liberty University 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z He continues, "Somebody here is being small-minded and intolerant, and it sure isn't the nuns, ministers, and laymen and women who ask only to live and practice their faith." Jeb Bush to jab Obama administration on religious freedom 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z “He basically thought I was small-minded because I believed in God and didn’t see the same views as him,” she recalls. At CPAC, conservatives eye candidates and dates 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z “He was subjected to a degree of persecution, some of it simply small-minded, some of it quite chilling.” André Brink, South African novelist whose works were banned, dies at 79 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Each time, Alabama appeared as a small-minded place. Alabama editorial roundup 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Juzwiak took many jabs at Smith and argued that his ambiguous lyrics allow “small-minded people” to “continue to default on heteronormativity.” Sam Smith marries man in the Church of England in new music video 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi wrote that the promoters were giving Bostonians an impossible choice: Buy in to their bid to get a modern transportation system, or “be labeled a small-minded, provincial party-pooper.” In U.S., Boston, Los Angeles, Washington and San Francisco Vie for 2024 Olympic Bid 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z It’s about a strong woman attempting to retain her identity in spite of the controlling machinations of a small-minded man. 50 Years Later: Why 'My Fair Lady' Is Better Than You Remember 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z On the way to the museum, lumbering inside Ryan, whose muscles could barely command the body forward, Marla suddenly knew why he was so small-minded and bitter, so scheming. Exquisite Corpse 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The new narrative is: we’re in a crisis period – still skint, more globalised than ever – and crises always throw up small-minded nationalism. Fed up with growth-focused politics? For real change, look left 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Since his election last March, the reform-minded Argentinian pope has repeatedly made clear his irritation with priests and prelates who focus on “small-minded rules” at the expense of human beings grappling with real-life dilemmas. Catholic church must listen to beat of this age, Pope Francis tells bishops 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Lincoln was followed by a group of small-minded, scandal-plagued Gilded Age successors. Review: ‘To Make Men Free,’ Republican Party history, by Heather Cox Richardson Such complexity tends to frighten and confuse small-minded people who think you can’t love your country and question it too, can’t celebrate its glories if you acknowledge its failures. ‘A tale of two countries’ — Jefferson County’s assault on U.S. history 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z I don’t miss the small-minded, self-centred way of thinking. 'I am a Scot, but I am also a Briton': Scottish expats on the independence referendum abroad 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Mack's response breaks down, in eloquent fashion, why creating characters like this is important and necessary, no matter how small-minded fans may be. 'Star Trek' writer pens an awesome response to critics of diversity 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z It has an inclusiveness towards music that stands at odds with the small-minded attitude that ended up defining so much of what Britpop became. Parklife Is the Cornerstone of Britpop, But It Shouldn’t Be 2014-04-28T20:21:55Z When the world’s most visible religious figure warns the faithful that “small-minded rules” hurt the church, people sit up and take notice for good reason. A year into his papacy, Pope Francis is making all the right moves 2014-03-13T14:47:00Z He has chosen inclusive language, has played down the importance of following the hierarchy and has warned against the church locking itself up “in small-minded rules.” Pope Francis faces church divided over doctrine, global poll of Catholics finds 2014-02-10T05:01:00Z He called it being locked up in "small things and small-minded rules", and an obsession with "the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines". Pope's unprecedented survey signals far-reaching reform 2013-11-15T14:01:32Z What we learn from babies is that our current politicians are most likely not unusually venal or small-minded … and that wondering how we got into this mess might well be asking the wrong question. Politicians Really Are Big Babies 2013-11-13T16:44:42Z That is a stark reminder of just how small-minded humans can be when first introduced to radically transforming technologies. Nanosatellites Will Give Everyone Access To Space 2013-11-10T18:44:00Z But in this week's interview, Francis said the Church had "locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules" and that its priests should be welcoming, not dogmatic bureaucrats. Pope message heralds change of tone on gays, abortion 2013-09-20T17:47:12Z He said the Church had become tied up in "small-minded rules" and risked losing its true purpose. Pope: Church 'must heal wounds' 2013-09-19T17:29:54Z Those of us familiar with “Inherit the Wind” may well be skeptical about another play in which a schoolteacher will be pilloried for trying to teach small-town, small-minded Christian fundamentalists basic biology. | Westchester: A Review of ‘How the World Began,’ at Penguin Rep Theater 2013-07-06T00:11:43Z The unintended result of the snide remark, however, is that Palmer comes off as petty and small-minded. In-Box: Letters to the Sports Editor 2013-06-22T16:59:41Z Yet a more robust recipe offering may be small-minded when considering the larger potential Punchfork brings with it. Punchfork CEO Shares Lessons From Its Big Recipe Data Business Model 2013-01-16T18:50:17Z The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani called the characters in the book, "The Casual Vacancy,'' self-absorbed, small-minded, snobbish and judgmental folks, whose stories neither engage nor transport us." IHT Rendezvous: Why do humans have two eyes? A cheat sheet for getting into Oxford 2012-10-15T14:44:02Z A reporter for Gothamist, a news Web site, consistently frames the battle as one between small-minded NIMBYs and a terrific new stadium. City Room: U.S. Tennis Association Joins Opposition to Major League Soccer's Queens Queens 2012-10-08T17:18:12Z Grandiose visions sketched by European leaders are falling victim to old-fashioned or small-minded thinking. IHT Rendezvous: Live From Paris, The Global Conversation 2012-10-04T14:51:06Z Last month, Mr. Romney said the continued focus on his personal tax returns by his Democratic opponents and the news media was "small-minded" in light of the economic problems that the country faces. The Caucus: Romney to Release 2011 Tax Returns 2012-09-21T19:23:40Z In some ways, the game has rarely seemed more small-minded and distant from the myths Sabol painstakingly created. Column: Sabol brought the NFL down to eye level 2012-09-19T09:58:08Z But, often, making an issue of what really is a token gesture can make them look small-minded. Column: Much ado in NFL and England on handshakes 2012-09-14T20:38:08Z It is simply small-minded prejudice to discount a friendship group on the basis of the actions of the few. The time is right for Conservative Friends of Russia 2012-08-24T12:17:39Z Scales said Eric Joyce, the Labour MP who attacked Andrew in the Strangers Bar at the House of Commons in February, "probably knocked some sense into your small-minded Tory mind". Man fined £110 for sending abusive email to Tory MP 2012-08-22T18:57:35Z In the email, Scales said the attack by Mr Joyce had "probably knocked some sense into your small-minded Tory mind". Man fined for abusive email to MP 2012-08-22T15:44:29Z Such fears now seem small-minded in the light of an event that began with an explosion of goodwill and never lost its capacity to charm and to amaze. Olympic Games closing ceremony: a raucous pageant of popular culture 2012-08-12T23:13:26Z The obstacles are timidity, lack of imagination and small-minded nationalism, not inexorable fate. Op-Ed Contributor: Europe’s Missing Union 2012-07-09T00:49:37Z "I think it's quite a small-minded way of looking at it," he said of the argument that paying spectators are entitled to expect England to field the strongest available team. Craig Kieswetter calls England rotation policy critics 'small-minded' 2012-07-05T20:59:01Z Richard Hofstadter, the eminent 20th century American political historian, described the War of 1812 as “ludicrous and unnecessary,” the product of an era “of fumbling and small-minded statecraft” and “terrible parochial wrangling.” The War of 1812: When the U.S. Invaded Canada -- and Failed 2012-06-18T21:35:16Z I am a little more small-minded, however, and I will take this opportunity to point out that the Steve Bernier hit was not a major penalty. On Hockey: The Honest Devils Fan Knows the Truth - Charles McGrath 2012-06-12T16:46:32Z “In that context, this is just a silly, small-minded, quote-unquote controversy.” The Quad: Cartoonist Courts Ire of Kentucky Fans 2012-05-08T20:01:29Z “They operate like small-minded people,” Cataldi said of the Nationals organization. Bats: Invasion of the Phillies Fans 2012-05-04T17:19:54Z The man a former small-minded editor of the Salt Lake Tribune once called “The Idi Amin of Big East basketball” actually had a funny bone. John Thompson never minded rocking the boat on the airwaves 2012-02-28T23:56:00Z It is not that the architect is small-minded enough to cavil at the landscape-gardener's right to display his taste by his own methods, but that he strikes for the same right for himself. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Not to be small-minded and parochial, but his resume and reputation are festooned with red flags. Sony Says Sayonara to Gaijin CEO 2012-02-07T15:07:23Z Trumbull received his quota of abuse and vilification for his vote against impeachment from small-minded newspapers and local politicians. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z I don’t want people who are small-minded, who want an exact job description. | Selina Lo: Selina Lo of Ruckus Wireless, on Leadership vs. Management 2011-10-22T15:35:14Z Now, someone small-minded will look over a detail or two like the above mentioned. An Archaeologist Watches the History Channel and Questions the Part About the Aliens 2011-10-20T02:32:39Z But for amendment Maurice took toll of me at home, retaliating with the malice of a small-minded woman, interfering in the affairs of the house, grumbling at the food, abusing the cook, and insulting me. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z But as dumb and small-minded and tiresome as Joe the Plumber is, there's no reason why he couldn't be a congressman. Will "Joe the Plumber" run for Congress? 2011-08-25T20:15:00Z When they are working, the leaders in Congress are almost entirely dysfunctional, frequently unprofessional, often small-minded and almost always focused on the short term. Should Congress really get so much vacation? 2011-08-05T14:31:00Z Yet another example of the hysterical, small-minded stupidity of the people of the great state of Arizona made it to today's New York Times. Arizonans enraged at Muslim word for dust storm 2011-07-22T18:55:00Z As Sorkin put it in “Too Big to Fail,” the other regulators viewed her as parochial and small-minded and thought her “only concern was to protect the F.D.I.C., not the entire system.” Sheila Bair?s Bank Shot 2011-07-09T04:00:00Z His small-minded vanity can only see in all this a distrust in his own powers and an intentional slight cast on his ability, whereas no such idea had ever entered the master's mind. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z But, looking back at captivity, I have often felt horribly small-minded, and I daresay a lot of others have too. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z The worse their abuse, the more gracefully she responded, which somehow made them look infinitely more small-minded than they already were. How to tweet bile without alienating people. Or making 13-year-old girls cry 2011-03-27T23:05:02Z There will probably be more nonsense before they make it a watertight deal, because it is the way people are in boxing: small-minded, egotistical and greedy. Why David Haye v Wladimir Klitschko matters 2011-03-07T11:07:36Z He thought Baynell's course was small-minded, unjustifiable, and an ungrateful requital of hospitality, such as only important interests might warrant. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z For a time she tried to think it was jealousy, envy of her gowns, but Esm� was not small-minded; the thought had to be put away. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z There are many small-minded people who want to hurt others. Life in Prison for Would-Be Times Square Bomber 2010-10-05T15:09:00Z An act as pointless, small-minded and shortsighted as launching a harpoon into the flank of a whale. Magazine Preview: Tuna?s End 2010-06-23T00:10:00Z She made constant eye contact — treating these intelligent animals as though they don’t suffer from poisoning seems small-minded. For Some Subway Riders, an Abiding Appreciation of Rats 2010-06-19T03:19:00Z It was stupid - some of the reviews I now see were small-minded and ungenerous but they were not intended to harm. Historian admits Amazon reviews 2010-04-24T13:22:00Z This childishly lenient view of the case did not appeal to Mumford, who, with all the small-minded man's respect for the letter of the law, was thirsting to punish the evildoer. "Pip" A Romance of Youth So many people are so selfish and small-minded that they can only cry and protest against afflictions, but there are some who welcome the bitter with the sweet—who grow big and fruitful with sorrow. Cinderella Jane It may seem small-minded and narrow to stigmatize such conduct as this. The Fortunes Of Glencore From the calm heights whereon she walked, such small-minded selfishness of motive did not come within her field of vision. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days Now, the small-minded, the carpers and the critics, had their opportunity, and they fell upon her in full cry like a pack of wolves. Francezka The hotel manager was a small-minded man with a narrow-minded outlook and a brain that was almost totally unable to learn. Thin Edge He had always believed that women were too small-minded to forget an injury, to forgive an insult, or to keep silence regarding their husbands' transgressions. Name and Fame A Novel That is neither superstition nor pride, you see, but just commonplace, small-minded vanity. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays And equally mistaken and small-minded man who thinks that all our Mighty God will have to offer us hereafter are crowns, damp clouds and mists, and endless hymns! The Golden Fountain or, The Soul's Love for God. Being some Thoughts and Confessions of One of His Lovers He was not a small man, but he looked small; and when he first came into notoriety, with a small following, was considered of small importance and, by some, small-minded. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 He had evidently had a bad time while she lived, but he must have been a small-minded and spiteful man to take that petty revenge after her death! Round the Wonderful World This sort of thing happens among the short-sighted, small-minded Native Commissioners. The Rhodesian It would imply a small-minded attitude, worthy neither of yourself nor of me.—Well, The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays To Umako, predicting that this deed of undeserved violence would prove the beginning of serious trouble, Moriya insultingly retorted that small-minded men did not understand such matters. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Like all small-minded men, he was jealous of superior merit and preferred mediocrity rather than genius in his ministers. The Story of Paris It sounds small, Polly, but it really is a serious matter when you come in contact with small-minded girls or adults. Polly and Eleanor He nourished a measure of small-minded anxiety lest he be indebted to somebody for something. The Goose Man They have been weak, self-centered, small-minded, cowards who had no thought for Earth and Earthmen, but only for themselves. The Highest Treason Like all small-minded men, like all tyrants and oppressors, Captain Fishley was a revengeful person. Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants It is lamentable that the authorities were sufficiently vindictive and small-minded to visit this act of friendly tolerance on Mr Beardmore with a fine of £50 and two months' imprisonment. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts There was only a small percentage of idlers and parasites among them, but they did duty with a very small-minded unprogressive set of ideas. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn We rightly say, in rebuke of a small-minded modernity, that it is very short-sighted to be indifferent to all that is historic. A Short History of England In short, judging from the much-bepraised ‘likeness’ to which we allude, if Sir Hudson Lowe was not a tyrant, and a small-minded one withal, God doesn’t write a legible hand. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 I'm not one of those small-minded men who allow themselves to be tied to details, and are irritated because things don't go exactly as they expect. The Simpkins Plot She was a small-minded but efficient city girl, clever enough to keep her job by making herself useful, and sophisticated to the point of indecency. The Stolen Singer Nor do I admit that we are so small-minded a people as to be jealous of the success of others. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events And in the field of scholarship, Germany is in the main chiefly laborious, accurate, and small-minded. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe She could not bear to realize that he was selfish and small-minded, though, now she came to think of it, she had always been aware of it in some degree. Joanna Godden Do not be so small-minded as to contest and resent authority. Stray Thoughts for Girls A cross is a cross—I allow that—and whatever I may think, I ban’t so small-minded as to fall foul of them as think differ’nt. Children of the Mist You thought to make me as small-minded as yourselves, but I turn to larger things, to the open. Invisible Links He knew him to be vain, intractable, small-minded and abnormally ambitious of power. Ireland Since Parnell Her arrogance was not of the small-minded sort; and the best chance with her was to defy her. A Great Success What must he not have endured from the persecutions of small-minded worshippers who fastened upon him for the interminable period between the incoming and the outgoing railroad train! Ralph Waldo Emerson You must think me very vain or small-minded, if you suppose that the civility itself of such excellent persons as you are could lead me to believe that—I had at once won your affection. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Mr. Busby was a well-meaning, small-minded person, anxious to justify his appointment. The Long White Cloud But it seemed to her now that she had returned his gifts with a niggardliness which must have made her appear very small-minded. The Top of the World Her mother, the Duchess Augusta, sister of our own George III., was weak and small-minded, too much occupied in self-indulgence and scandal-talking to trouble about the training of her children. Love affairs of the Courts of Europe I have voiced the things around me, the small-minded thoughts, the sodden round of grinding tasks—a monotonous, purposeless, needless existence. My Brilliant Career I object to something which is conceited and small-minded; but which also has that kind of pertinacity which always belongs to lunatics. The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian If the House were as free from small-minded jealousy and disloyalty as it is from bribery and idleness, it would be a very noble assembly. The Long White Cloud They deprecate the sight of scattered counsels, of internal disagreement; and especially they dislike making their just criticism of a useful and earnest man an excuse for a general discharge of venom from small-minded opponents. The Souls of Black Folk Any other view of living seemed not only foolish but small-minded. Together Of course, acid, small-minded people carry their narrow notions and their acidity into their benevolence. Friends in Council — First Series It did not look like the handwriting of a small-minded man, but handwriting was nothing to go by, she argued obstinately. The Sheik Like all small-minded men, he had a great fund of superstition, and he wore the talisman of good luck for some time. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 This marshmallow man was every bit as small-minded as the mortal men. The Forest Monster of Oz Etta was perhaps a small-minded person, and as such failed to attach due importance to this proof that her power over him was limited. The Sowers The Prime Minister of Australia, William Morris Hughes, a small-minded, insensitive, violent man, directed a furious campaign in favour of a huge indemnity. Peaceless Europe It is therefore difficult for the small-minded officer of the line to see why the Medical Department was unable to have these medicines up at the front. History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition In his dealings with those who were to be associated with him in Irish administration, he showed the jealousy of a small-minded man, and ensconced himself behind the bulwark of reticence and inaccessibility. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 It is only a shrewdly stupid trick in local politics, planned and staged by small-minded and loud-voiced politicians who are trying to keep their hold upon the province. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales But certain it is he laid a smart but kindly finger on many a small-minded prejudice. English Literature for Boys and Girls Hal, by her very nature, could not love a small-minded woman. Winding Paths Under existing circumstances it is wise and suitable for me "to strive with earnest consistency for my high aim, regardless of adverse circumstances and small-minded people." Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso Not at all a small-minded man, nor involved in the financial campaign being waged against Cowperwood, nor inclined to be influenced mentally or emotionally by superheated charges against the latter, he nevertheless speculated deeply. The Titan To small-minded statesmen it seemed that the situation called for conquest. The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power These few small-minded men publish, papers to praise themselves. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays This dissatisfaction was so much increased by the friction with his very small-minded and vain fellow officials that he left the Chancellerie and entered the Senate. Resurrection It would be small-minded to think of them with rancour, but, by Apollo! New Grub Street De Marsay, against whom many people chose to pit Lucien, giving a preference to the poet, was small-minded enough to resent this. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Oddly enough, they are small-minded and small-hearted people who are most shocked by what they call “vanity” in the great. Essays in Little |
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