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Golf Association and the R&A — for wastefully and narrow-mindedly investigating how to control how far the golf ball flies, a report that pertains to “0.1 percent of the golfing community.”

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

Too many doctors are thought to be coolly professional and emotionally distant, inclined to cure a specific disorder narrow-mindedly without comforting or caring.

From Time Magazine Archive

The giant with the eagle eye and fiery heart had been succeeded by dwarfs, whose weak breasts were saturated with bitterness, and whose eyes looked on the world sadly, suspiciously, narrow-mindedly.

From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by Soissons, C. S. de

At the first glance of the eye one can see that he is a doctrinarian shut up in himself, who does not embrace large horizons—sees everything at a certain angle, narrow-mindedly yet seeing distinctly.

From So Runs the World by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Resistances of this sort must not be narrow-mindedly condemned.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund