Think of how grey, introverted, small-minded and parochial Scotland can sometimes be. |
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Let the good that he did live after him, and the evil be interred with the petty theses of small-minded philosophers. |
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By 1978, however, he was gone, eased out by the small-minded, petty individuals who dominated the club's board at the time. |
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For while the political implications are indeed large, the tactics employed by both sides have been depressingly small-minded. |
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He plans his escape from the provincial small-minded perceptions of the immediate community. |
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I mean, if this were Wales say, or Scotland, I dare say I could rabbit away about small-minded, provincial parochialism. |
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Thus there are some signs that we might get a week of eloquent dispute as opposed to small-minded and parochial bickering. |
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My friend was worried about the way this film would play for a small-minded and bigoted audience. |
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To think, or act, otherwise is to be as small-minded and as bigoted as those you many complain about. |
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Even in the advertising industry, it seems that you have to show small-minded, petty acts of vandalism to get noticed. |
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We all experience times of feeling mightily right and dismissing dissent as small-minded pettiness. |
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They are just small-minded homophobes trying to rationalize their fear of people unlike themselves. |
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I ask the Prime Minister, how is it possible that such a big-spirited country could have such a small-minded government? |
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One is the distorted image of OLAF which some fellow Members are painting on the basis of their own small-minded self-interest. |
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If that is the case in this province, such thinking is petty and small-minded. |
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That did not please the two small-minded section heads referred to above, but seventeen other staff members participated. |
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We have fans all around the world and thinking of where each one comes from would be small-minded. |
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Every once in a blue moon, something will come along that is so immediately affecting and amazing that our usual sarcasm-laced tone just seems petty and small-minded. |
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So small-minded is this government that it is unable even to organise the bill to restrict docking of dogs' tails. |
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As much as she tried to ignore the small-minded jealousy that surrounded her, it upset her a great deal. |
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There are times when such enclaves are small-minded, doctrinaire, judgmental, and prejudiced to the extreme. |
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If you find this sort of thing revolting and repugnantly narcissistic, you are small-minded and stupid. |
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This is, inarguably, a small-minded and small-hearted way to look at things, even by the usual silly standards for sports fans. |
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But if pointed barbs from small-minded conservative commentators are what it takes to spur the country into action, then so be it. |
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You breathed new life into this miserable old cavern, into a community of small-minded, mean-spirited people. |
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I wish small-minded, moronic people would stop trashing whole groups of people and places, just to make themselves feel superior. |
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The play simply confirms the view of the nation as having the mentality of snitchy small-minded individuals concerned about the liquor laws. |
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To use the occasion of his death to launch an attack on one aspect of his policy seems inappropriate, ill-timed, small-minded and tasteless. |
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While Euroskeptics are often caricatured as small-minded isolationists, they have a point. |
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I assume it is easier for small-minded people to moan and complain about benefits than actually ask the questions which matter. |
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As payback, this trashy movie treats them as small-minded provincials. |
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That was not the action of a small-minded or petty individual. |
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This is to be welcomed because it marks a setback for the backward-looking and small-minded, illiberal and anti-democratic outlook that has come to define the radical rump. |
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Post-Civil-War America therefore seemed to exhibit the worst kind of small-minded, lacklustre parochialism, but it had coupled it with a loutish popularism. |
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But it sounded very parochial, very small-minded, very irrelevant. |
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They are suspicious, small-minded and mean. |
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These emotions dissolve the petty, small-minded self. |
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It may be that we Europeans will improve our standard of living, but others will suffer for our small-minded actions, our great mediocrity, precisely because we have decided to remain merely a great economic power. |
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A challenge such as that should not be met with a small-minded response. |
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Europe must not allow itself to sink into this sort of small-minded swamp. |
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In view of the fact that the Iron Curtain fell almost fifteen years ago, it is not appropriate to take a small-minded view of the difficulties of all kinds, primarily financial, numerous though these certainly are. |
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Are those of us in this cooperative venture really so small-minded that we believe that the greatest peace project of our lifetime must not cost anything? |
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Labor believes this position is small-minded. |
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In part, small-minded prejudices are involved here. |
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The conventional image of him is that of a fussy, superstitious, small-minded, uninspiring leader whose chief skill was equivocation. |
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The man who explored universes in his works was ridiculously small-minded. |
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More important, why don't the media mention the small-minded sleazeballs who surfaced this tripe for their vengeful purposes? |
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