| For her part, Eliss found Ciaran dusty and hidebound, carrying as he did a clipboard, a stylus and a pair of pince-nez on a steel chain. |
| He needed to transform the entrenched corporate culture, which had become hidebound and overly bureaucratic. |
| It's an insane effort, smacking of majoritarian tyranny and aggressive, hidebound religious-exclusivist ethics. |
| We were not so hidebound by tradition, so we had to discover new ways to express ourselves. |
| Even Germany, the Continent's largest and most hidebound economy, may soon see reform. |
| There's no magic formula that will transform a hidebound organization into one eager to adopt the latest software technology. |
