Also on the level of taste and tone, the books seemed to some readers for example, Hitchings provincial and small-minded.
Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for Babbitt--the story of a small-minded Realtor in the 1920s.
Parliament, paralysed for the usual small-minded reasons, gave up on it last year.
The angles pitched to our inbox by the minute were endless, and each one seemed more small-minded than the next.
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To claim that he is neither a liberal or a progressive because he votes his conscious is ludicrous and small-minded.
Sally, who tends to wounded veterans as a nurse's aide, has a perspective on reality that's alien to her small-minded family.
But oh man is it hard to stay silent in the face of behavior as small-minded and idiotic as this latest episode.
They were small-minded executives almost obsessed by jealousy of other developers and the thought that another Activision game or studio might share their spotlight.
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Mr. Romney's advisers are portraying Mr. Ryan's selection as a politically substantive contrast to Mr. Obama's strategy of small-minded attacks that distract from his economic record.
So forgive me if I'm being small-minded, but Bruce Tognazzini's speculative manifesto about an Apple iWatch fails to make a convincing futurist case for the imagined device -- despite whipping up a whirlwind of attention.
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Days later, when Clinton denounced radio personality Don Imus' comments toward the Rutgers women's basketball team as "small-minded bigotry and coarse sexism, " Clinton was lambasted as a hypocrite for accepting donations raised by Timbaland, whose lyrics are often peppered with "bitch, " "ho" and the like.
Small-minded Edinburgh lawyers who disapproved of his campaigns might blackball him from their golf club, and did, but their slightly more sophisticated counterparts in London could hardly dismiss him as a wild leftie: they had known him in the Bullingdon Club and shared his views on hunting.
She did not appear to cry, as she did during the viewing of chilling crime-scene footage on Tuesday, but she blinked, looked down and exhibited small, absent-minded jaw movements.
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And being blocked on the Web could mean extinction for small, independent-minded online publishers--the very folks who have benefited most from the Internet revolution.
Days are filled dreaming with a small group of like-minded people.
Yet unlike the small number of high-minded citizens who protested, neither Mr Putin nor his bureaucrats saw anything shameful in the revelation that the job swap was pre-planned.
Yahoo slices its massive audience into narrow, highly targeted groups as small as 17, 000 like-minded souls.
In this spirit, a small group of young, civic-minded, tech-savvy entrepreneurs weathered the worst of Sandy with a brainstorm.
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For the more business-minded, the Small Business Administration will provide a series of online seminars to help veterans become entrepreneurs.
But a broad-minded Maasai businessman with a small restaurant took him in, off the open road.
Hence, a small logo on a jar of coffee means politically-minded consumers get to pay more for their daily cup, comfortable in the knowledge that the farmers who grew those coffee beans receive a decent price for their crop.
The idea that investment-minded people might find it worthwhile to troll for very small venture opportunities has been gaining traction in the media.
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Emotionally over-invested professionals tend to surround themselves with very small teams of like minded individuals from similar backgrounds who tend to reinforce each others thinking instead of challenging it.
Some of the turbulence will test (but not break) the coalition, as specific policy disputes set flinty, small-state Tories against more tender-hearted, pro-European and environmentally minded Lib Dems.
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Only a small fraction of working folks tend to be this missionary, a bit bullheaded but open-minded.
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The sales-minded executive Tuesday announced he was dissolving an HP group responsible for sales to small- and medium-sized businesses to give HP's salespeople more direct customer contact, and stressed that HP would work only with partners that made it a point to champion HP products.
Yet, at the same time, this internationally minded businessman is the most passionate defender of what are, in effect, the interests of small-town Switzerland.
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