Example Sentences

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Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Which is saying a lot after plays like “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” and “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” that portray the busy small-mindedness behind big ugly doings.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022

If I'm attacking anything, it's the niche-marketed banality, stupidity and small-mindedness of our age, which has conjured up and nourished someone like McNaughton as its accidental but inevitable antithesis.

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2020

Perhaps it’s because, whatever small-town small-mindedness might exist in the nonfictional world, forgiveness is built into these stories.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2019

Cursing herself for her small-mindedness even as she was powerless before it.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead