Example Sentences

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Her chutzpah coupled with her father's broad-mindedness helped her escape the practice for the rest of her life.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2024

Yet even in his parochialism, Jefferson's broad-mindedness remained apparent.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024

He was simply bowled over by the beauty and the energy of the place, the broad-mindedness, the equable weather, the dramatic geography.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2022

When the authors do address slavery, they invoke French and Spanish slaveholding laws—which were less severe than those in Anglo America—as evidence of New Orleans’ “European” broad-mindedness about race.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2022

Any other broad-mindedness is the illusory broad-mindedness of the smooth and smug.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis