Only the most hopeless and futile of doctrinaires could have argued themselves into believing anything else.
But doctrinaires always abound in times of revolution.
In matters of which the ultras were very proud, the doctrinaires were somewhat ashamed; they had wit, they had silence, their political dogma was properly starched with hauteur, and they must succeed.
It was thus that the doctrinaires criticised and protected the Royalists, who were dissatisfied at being criticised, and furious at being protected.
It is one of South Africa's paradoxes that there should exist among successful and matter-of-fact men of business a hungry fidelity to ideals for which we look in vain among the doctrinaires who do them facile homage.
Sound government is not, as revolutionary doctrinaires used to think, the outcome of the grace of God and a flawless code of abstractions.
And the doctrinaires of Centralization, vociferating their fad of Imperial Federation, would have that Constitution, in the moment of its supreme triumph for unity, cast away!
Hitherto the momentous problem has been dealt with chiefly by the theorists and doctrinaires who delight in radical solutions by means of panaceas, and who have little taste for detailed local investigation and gradual improvement.
We talk of revolutionary doctrinaires in France and other countries.
It seemed to him to rest on a base so broad that he could not tell how either the opposition or the radical doctrinaires could attack it without adopting "the German tyranny.
History hardly shows such revolutionary doctrinaires anywhere as the whig and tory statesmen who tried to regenerate Ireland in the middle of the nineteenth century.
As I write this it comes into my mind that you will take me for a doctrinaire, which would be very unjust, for principle is a weakness which doctrinaires don't cultivate.
He accepts, but is separated and disengaged from the doctrinaireswhom he has humiliated.
He says that Madame de Broglie's doctrinaires are of the same opinion, but all this coterie, like the Bourse and the Boulevards, are very much agitated by the news from England.
There were the little intrigues of the doctrinaires diffidently developing around me under the auspices of M.
These doctrinaires always want to teach one something!
The extremists and doctrinaires who started the agitation that brought it about were relatively few in number.
Even the bespectacled doctrinaires of the East, whence, since the days when the Star of Bethlehem shone over the desert, wisdom and wise men have had their emanation, were moved to something like enthusiasm.
A very small group of extremists and doctrinaires had in the beginning made a War of Sections possible.
What the doctrinaires thought of the direct-actionists--or at least what their leaders wanted workingmen in general to think of them--is of equal importance.
When the doctrinaires held their 1915 convention (the "Eighth I.
The doctrinaires are the socialistic, pro-political, "yellow" I.
The Socialist Labor party and the doctrinaires of Detroit thought that this convention was a very insignificant gathering.
In this present work they are considered, entirely without prejudice to the admittedly more "correct" and consistent position of the doctrinaires of the Detroit wing, to be the I.
We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.
This impression I have received from many different sides, and except the Doctrinaires and the extremists on the Left every one is feeling it.
He also told me of the definite rupture of the Doctrinaireswith M.
The Conservative party thus seems to be reorganised by the return of the large majority of the Doctrinaires and the probable support of the Left Centres, who are in terror, but the Doctrinaire party is divided; M.
The former said that thedoctrinaires were decisively defeated in the Dupin dispute, as the Chamber had pronounced against them.
The instructions of the Ministry are very capricious; on the whole the Doctrinaires and progressive parties are to be proscribed, but with so many exceptions here and there that unusual points of contact are created.
The doctrinaires shudder at the name of a republic.
The triumphant doctrinaires pass no jokes at their expense; no bons mots are quoted against them, nor does any shop exhibit caricatures either of what they have been or of what they are.
Never did Napoleon in the days of his most absolute power, or the descendants of Louis le Grand in those of their proudest state, contemplate this factious, restless race with such abhorrence as do the doctrinaires of the present hour.
Our very doctrinaireshave usually acted much more practically than they have talked.
There can be no sounder rule of statesmanship; and none was more flagrantly broken by the amiable but incompetent political doctrinaires of 1789.
Be it noted also that, the doctrinairesto the contrary notwithstanding, we proved that a strong central government was perfectly compatible with absolute democracy.
It was twice vetoed by President Buchanan, who had at his back all the pro-slavery doctrinaires of his time.
Unless we firmly grasp this fact, the subsequent vicissitudes of the Italian commonwealths are unintelligible, and the elaborate definitions of the Florentine doctrinaires lose half their meaning.
The Doctrinaires were ready to allow the king a large discretion in the choice of his ministers and the direction of national policy.
It is perfectly useless fordoctrinaires to argue, as doctrinaires will, about ethical restraints.
That was before the modern industrial era had got under way in Germany, and therefore before the German socialistic doctrinaires had learned by experience what the development of industry was to bring with it.
Notoriously, too, the large-scale industry has not invaded the agricultural field, or expropriated the small proprietors, in anything like the degree expected by the Marxist doctrinaires of a generation ago.
Perhaps the sorest experience of the Marxist doctrinaires has been with the agricultural population.
Short-sighted people and one-sided doctrinaires can never be convinced of the fact that in this brutal fact lies not only the end but also the proper beginning of unfeigned morality.
Bakunin hoped to win over to his ideas this company, consisting for the most part of amiable enthusiasts, doctrinaires and congress haunters, and to create in it a background for his own activity.
It is in the name of Progress that the doctrinaires who established the present reign of terror in Russia profess to act.
And Javary notes a prevailing tendency in France to interpret every contemporary movement as progressive, while all the social doctrinaires justify their particular reforms by invoking the law of Progress.
That is pure eighteenth century doctrine; and it passed from the revolutionary doctrinaires of that period to the constructive socialists of the nineteenth century.
No wonder that this fateful alliance of doctrinaires and partizans brought fateful results, and that, after a generation of anarchy and race hatred, the more fundamental task of education has only just begun.
This object was a worthy one, and it added the appearance of logical necessity to the theories of doctrinaires and the schemes of partisans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doctrinaires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
