The continuing debate between government and the press has not been much advanced by doctrinaire arguments.
They didn't know the facts . . . and I don't think it would've mattered in the slightest if they had. Very doctrinaire (George V. Higgins).
He is firm but not doctrinaire.
He founded a doctrinaire movement that has excommunicated dissenters while trying to evade empirical scrutiny
A second, equally important principle is that whatever we do in education, we should remain pragmatic, not doctrinaire, in our approach.
But doctrinaire Democrats can find fault with all these achievements.
Raul Castro and his Allies have clearly won it, against the more doctrinaire officials promoted by Fidel Castro after he abandoned the limited opening of the 1990s.
Are there not things that rarely change about which an educational technologist could be doctrinaire?
doctrinaire attitudes, beliefs, criticisms
"A second, equally important principle is that whatever we do in education, we should remain pragmatic, not doctrinaire, in our approach. We should, as the Chinese would say, "seek truth from facts"."
temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom
We do not confront the world in a doctrinaire way with a new principle: Here is the truth, kneel down before it!
The centre is the name for moderate, middle-of-the-road parties and politics, scorned by the doctrinaire and idealist.