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A brilliant friend of mine said, "Evolution is a scientific fact, " and he said it with the dogmatic implication that the case is closed.

Gordy was a dogmatic pain in the arse. And he never could listen. Entertaining, though.

Otis began to suspect that he had been too dogmatic in his denial of the existence of ghosts, Mrs.

But as the Pew report cited above found, a majority of Americans are not so dogmatic when it comes to their faiths.

It was not in Franklin's nature, however, to be dogmatic or extreme about any principle; he generally gravitated toward a sensible balance.

He hoped he could be described as a liberal in the true sense, non-dogmatic and non-committed. He was "not a registered anything" .

Unfortunately we still go blundering along in the same dogmatic way, as though our so-called reality were not equally full of illusion.

Rather than a Christian romantic, Guevara was a ruthless and dogmatic Marxist, who stood not for liberation but for a new tyranny.

He was a master of dialectic, could be even in the next sentence, stupidly dogmatic.

He looked for a less dogmatic politics that combined liberal values, respect for human rights and social equity.

It was the earnest and dogmatic way in which she presented her political convictions that put everyone's back up.

Some also said scientists say "evolution is the only allowable explanation" to portray scientists as being dogmatic.

It serves to explain only too well the flood of cheap, foolish, dogmatic statements which regularly appear in the press of his party.

It linked organic society with a traditional mode of thinking , closed society with a dogmatic mode and open society with a critical mode .

Lead can be considered equivalent to dogmatic thought-form in which right and wrong prevails.

The president, Tran Duc Luong, was only a little less dogmatic.

Atheism "allows someone to move forward and speculate on life without any concern for the dogmatic structure of a religion, " Bailey said.

It is always safe to be dogmatic about tomorrow.

Petro: Marxism-Leninism disappeared because it was the dogmatic application of the official state doctrine.

The problem is that the dogmatic prescriptions of the "German orthodoxy" are pushing the single currency towards collapse.

Some of the most dogmatic opinions extant in Christendom today are those of end-times specialists.

Perhaps because the Yi nationality remains an aggregate of branches, their beliefs have never fused into a dogmatic system.

Liberal critics have long asserted that dogmatic devotion to market forces has skewed American society toward those of greatest means.

Standing in marked contrast to the intolerant savagery of other religions, Buddhism is neither fanatical nor dogmatic--so say its adherents.

Finally, financial advisers need to be much less dogmatic and confident in their predictions.

It is not religiously dogmatic. . . We accept religious pluralism and, likewise, political pluralism.

"The fingerprint community can get quite dogmatic, " Biro told me in another conversation.

"They weren't as dogmatic about having a hit single, " Mr. Erlichman is quoted as saying. "They were an album company. "

Becoming the dreamer and the dream again equates to the transcendence of dogmatic victim-based thought-form in the human species.

With Mr. Assad's hold on power appearing more tenuous by the day, the visit underscored Iran's increasingly dogmatic view of the conflict.

I don't like to be dogmatic about things, but this part is not optional.

Teaching is an art, an art of communication with no dogmatic ways of implementation.

He insists that Nepal's Maoists are not "dogmatic communists" and he has backed foreign investment and private enterprise.

Though the "war on drugs" continues, the approach is gradually becoming less dogmatic and more pragmatic.

philprof: He read Hume and woke from his dogmatic slumber.

Such theories were also held with almost dogmatic faith by Chinese Communists back in the late 1920's and early 1930's.

True philosophy was supplanted by dogmatic opinions. The pundits took delight in vain polemics .

As you will gather, I am not too dogmatic about precise glass shapes.

It's time for our lawmakers to take a hard, non dogmatic look at Chinese business (and government) practices, and to return the favor.

The propagandist must therefore be consistently dogmatic.

The rationalist finally will be of dogmatic temper in his affirmations.

He was not dogmatic. In his first year he proposed a tax increase.

One who instructs in a pedantic OR dogmatic manner.

I also think my party can be smug, detached, and dogmatic at times.

Washington's financial institutions were once notorious for their dogmatic prescriptions.

And stereotypes, dogmatic men live together, not sleepy just strange?

"I'm no longer dogmatic about anything, " she smiled.

Thanks also to intersex advocacy groups, the medical treatment of intersexual conditions has become less dogmatic and more circumspect.

Empty, dry dogmatic formulas do indeed destroy the creative mood; not only that, they first destroy Marxism.

From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don' t exist any longer.

Where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings, but it is no dwelling place for permanent settlement.

It maynot be as dogmatic as the strain studied at the von Mises Institute; we're notready to legalize heroin just yet.

To express opinions or judgments in a dogmatic way.

They blind people with dogmatic beliefs and neverending consuming products.

The second is the courts' methods of finding the law is mechanical and dogmatic.

ABBY: I'm glad you hear that. Sometimes when I write a lyric I think it is too preachy, and I want it to be inclusive, not dogmatic.

And it's also possible that a state still reeling from the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has tired of heavily dogmatic politics.

The ideal of marriage is dogmatic, and as socially pervasive as any religious belief.

I don't mean to sound like a 9-year-old or a dogmatic Darwinian, but really. Come on.

A dogmatic approach to technology is a surefire way to spend money unnecessarily.

they can promote what we in the 21st century need more than anything, a sense of the sacred without dogmatic religion.

Perhaps you are too dogmatic with certain things.

How dogmatic do we need to be?

The first modeling tools where "dogmatic" with standards such as MDA and UML.

We can't be dogmatic over something that hasn't occurred yet.

Unless satisfactory answers to these questions can be given, adherence to the will of the gods is blind obedience to dogmatic authority

as for the rest , they were numskulls , ninnies , superficial , dogmatic , and ignorant

A Compendium of Correlation between "Enlightened" Tradition of Modern Chinese Literature and Ancient Chinese "Dogmatic" Literature

Since it emphasises fairness and historical facts on the ground over dogmatic adherence to geometry

erroneous and dogmatic interpretations of Marxism

erroneous and dogmatic interpretation of Marxism

The first transition is from the ancient dogmatic philosophy to kants critical philosophy;