I don't like to consider myself to be small-minded, but I talk small-minded a lot.
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That's the things with small towns, people are small minded.
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But talk about energy, and Germany reverts to small-minded legalism.
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"Don't feed the rhetoric created by small-minded people," he wrote.
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We don't have time for distractions or for small-minded people.
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The takeaway: don't be small-minded ... when it comes to stereotypes. #SpoilerAlert
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Look at the news: Politics has become frustratingly small-minded and shortsighted.
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Its culture is provincial, its theater hidebound and its worldview small-minded.
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It is hard to imagine a more delicious rebuke to small-minded provincialism.
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He's the president and he's gross and comical – a small-minded, lowlife jerk.
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How small-minded and petty, and terrible of a human being he is.
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Word of the project quickly spread, sparking an outpouring of small-minded bigotry.
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It was a shock to see how mean and small-minded people can be.
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The other moms, like all suburban mothers on television, are gossipy and small-minded.
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Russell's optimism probably isn't just a manifestation of his small-minded hopes and dreams.
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But Trump voters' concerns about marred landscapes can't be dismissed as small-minded NIMBYism.
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It was a mismatch of scale: this small-minded man controlling this enormous city.
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Businesses have made it abundantly clear that they have little time for small-minded nationalism.
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It's preventable, yes, but President Trump and small-minded Tea Party members won't stop it.
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Limitations will be imposed, and you'll find it especially exasperating to be around small-minded people.
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Looking back, I can't believe how much time I wasted stuck in that small-minded mentality.
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In those first few months after Wes died, it rang so small-minded, so fortunately naïve.
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Mr. Thompson, whose presence always reads large, is hardly a natural choice for the small-minded Thorwald.
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O.A.T., again' is referencing the small-minded concept of history that you're the Greatest of All Time.
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A small-minded and demagogic politician might have exploited Americans' anxieties and appealed to their worst instincts.
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Just another gift for his small minded base, terrified of the diversity that has always made America exceptional!
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Andreas Petzold, publisher of German weekly Stern described the leaders of Berlin as "small-minded" in a tweet.
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I wasn't going to watch the reboot because I find Ms. Barr noxious, transphobic, racist and small-minded.
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Like "Balthazar," it is a cleareyed tragedy about the suffering of women among cruel and small-minded provincials.
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Opinion A spectacular campaign to elevate the design of federal buildings is under threat from small-minded classicists.
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Such is the norm in our very heated, small-minded, and still mostly useless health care debate in America.
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" "We are going to continue to build a world that makes small-minded, misogynist boys like you feel outdated.
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In other words, I was small-minded and reluctant to change, assuming my way was the only way. Obviously!
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Mr. Clarkson hears this and grins the grin of a man unwilling to be defeated by small-minded concerns.
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Back then Mrs Merkel's model presented an inspiring alternative to the small-minded xenophobia of leaders like Hungary's Viktor Orban.
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According to Fairfax Media, Jansz told shareholders in an email the block showed a "small-minded view" toward tech companies.
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"There are people who I believe are small minded, so narrow, that they cannot see any other direction," he says.
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His attacks on the small-minded politicians of his age satisfies the disdain in which contemporary pro-Europeans hold their leaders.
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Can she finally do what no Republican has done before, and expose Trump for being a small-minded bigot and bully?
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This is a common trope of documentary cinema about STEM subjects, the forward-thinker unappreciated in their own small-minded time.
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A century later, it had curdled into a belittling insult, referring to issues of "small importance" or to "small minded" people.
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At some level, all you have is a powerful person putting all of his weight behind a pointless, small-minded fight.
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Maybe I'm just a small-minded American, which is entirely possible, but talk a little bit about the scene in Europe.
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I asked Harrison: Is just appreciating water for the little things it does — like improving our skin or mile-time — small-minded?
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This just further demonstrates how biased the fashion magazine industry is, and shows how insecure and small-minded Anna Wintour really is.
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And I blame him for the small-minded America First obsession that made it impossible for him to learn from other countries.
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For such a small-minded man, he hovers so large over this country's political landscape, casting the longest and most sinister of shadows.
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"To see a story about a woman who conquers a small-minded misogynistic bully — it's incredible," the actress told Refinery29 over the phone.
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In a startlingly original reversal that divides the movie into two halves, Oscar proves himself a small-minded, small-hearted, small-town man.
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But management theorists now say it is not only small-minded bosses that star workers need to overcome; it is also their colleagues.
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Oh, the vulgarity, the venality, the small-minded nastiness of those loathsome souls now crowding the stage at the Duke on 42nd Street.
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As of today, I forever leave behind the Methodist church over this thoughtless, divisive decision by a small group of small-minded leaders.
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Small town doesn't mean small-minded In 2015, when 'Schitt's Creek' first aired, America was in the midst of a vicious, polarizing presidential campaign.
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Hatty is a poet, housewife and governess in training, underappreciated, like many an Austen heroine, by the small-minded, and championed by the powerful.
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Worry about what horrible people you are by whining about how me being on the cover of a glossy magazine impacts your small minded life.
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We indeed share in the utter detestation of every small-minded, often hateful thought entering Trump's brain suddenly becoming a 2628/28500 national news story.
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Our nation's capital is rife with small-minded sycophants, more interested in securing their own stations than in serving the country they claim to love.
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But police investigators said Thursday that Mr. Lochte and the others had acted more like small-minded vandals than the victims they claimed to be.
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"Remember that hatred is the refuge of small-minded individuals and will only breed more," the family wrote in a statement released by the police.
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And then they hid behind the shield of political correctness to insist that any view that didn't mesh with their own was small-minded and offensive.
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If Jack had prevailed, Richard could grouse forever about how his brilliant algorithm was squandered by a small-minded businessman and no one could question it.
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America's mood has changed, and many viewers might not feel much empathy for the small-minded grievances of wealthy teens who drive to school in S.U.V.s.
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Fuck all of you small minded people that think that because I physically look 'fine' that I'm not battling a monster inside my head every single day.
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After a booted contestant on The Voice called out Kelly Clarkson as "small minded" for likening her to fellow gay artists, the coach had something to say.
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Rather, those protests were fueled by a fear that Trump's America will be an anti-future, a hateful and small-minded dystopia with a plummeting global reputation.
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His appointment to the OfS is the worst example of the U.K.'s slide towards a small-minded conservatism that belittles the vulnerable while rewarding the pompous.
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One of the things ... I was talking to someone who thinks of themselves as a financial leader and is not, is just such a small-minded person.
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In 2016, Pepe became the patron saint of the fascist troll, an emblem on the small-minded neo-Nazi moral straitjacket that's been masquerading as nihilistic anarchy lately.
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Trump acts like a nasty, small-minded despot, not the leader of a democracy more than two centuries old in which rule of law is a sturdy pillar.
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"Saoirse Ronan's expressive face carries this tender romance across the Atlantic, from small-minded Enniscorthy in Ireland to big-hearted New York," said The Sunday Times critic Kate Muir.
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"I'm a member of Mollie's family and we are not so fucking small-minded that we generalize a whole population based on some bad individuals," Lucas tweeted last week.
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"Hey, I'm a member of Mollie's family and we are not so f---ing small-minded that we generalize a whole population based on some bad individuals," Lucas wrote.
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Because he is so singularly coarse and vulgar, so ill informed and small-minded, he has made people see the better side of those they had long written off.
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"We know we might look small from the perspective of Washington, but to us what's going on in Washington looks so small or small-minded," the former mayor said.
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For most Americans, it would appear, the decade was more like something out of "Babbitt" or "Elmer Gantry": a country turned inward against the world, small-minded and cruel.
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It has nothing to do with sexual preference and is very offensive and small-minded to think that way (let alone spew it directly at people like it even matters).
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And it would be small-minded of me to focus on the 200 people who will see a seven-minute catwalk show when I can communicate with millions of people.
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Call out misunderstanding, stereotyping and small-minded thinking in the spaces you occupy, not with anger or irritation, but rather by providing space for a more nuanced conversation about identity.
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So it's natural that every success, no matter how small, every generous act, is trumpeted and amplified while every failure and disappointed and small-minded act of cruelty is hidden.
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Her screed suggests that the unthinking application of political correctness (PC), in this case in the form of a diversity target, will threaten liberal, Western culture and produce small-minded individuals.
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Last season was a major turning point for the women of the fantasy drama, who spent much of the first six seasons at the very limited mercy of small-minded men.
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"Hey, I'm a member of Mollie's family and we are not so f--king small-minded that we generalize a whole population based on some bad individuals," Lucas said on Twitter.
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But we've also long reckoned with a bleaker view of things—the notion that small towns are stultifyingly conformist and small-minded, because they allow for no privacy or independent thought.
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" Sam Lucas, a distant relative of Ms. Tibbetts, tweeted back at her, saying her family is not so "small-minded that we generalize a whole population based on some bad individuals.
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"Are you Cristiano Ronaldo's uncle?" he asked the reporter — Ronaldo dismissed Iceland as "small minded" when they cheered a 1-1 draw with Portugal in their first match at Euro 2016.
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Her small-minded neighbors and classmates snicker behind her back about how her father has undoubtedly left her mother and how her preternaturally wise baby brother Charles Wallace is clearly a moron.
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At the beginning of all the drama, I thought, 'Never mind it, Dina, it's just a couple of small-minded people who don't have anything else to do than hate on everything.
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He later said, "There are about 1,700 ways to take that song"; it can be understood equally well as a sympathetic portrayal or a caricature of a small-town, small-minded Southerner.
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"I think it's taken on, obviously, a completely different meaning because what it seems to mean now is 'let's make America white again and racist again and small-minded again,'" she said.
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"I'm a member of Mollie's family and we are not so fucking small-minded that we generalize a whole population based on some bad individuals," Tibbetts's cousin Samantha Lucas tweeted last week.
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The Barlows are cartoons of the small-minded wealthy — "It's like a third-world country here," says one, upon learning that the Cohens subscribe to neither the Economist nor the Wall Street Journal.
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The LinkedIn post described the book as the tale of a heroic businessman, fighting to overcome small-minded enemies—particularly Adams, whom Boback now likes to depict as the cause of Tiversa's problems.
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Yet now, a miserable bunch of small-minded nationalist upstarts are trying to play jingoistic games with historical facts in pursuit of their illiberal betrayal of the great Polish contribution to European freedom.
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Flea tells TMZ Sports ... he knows there's been some harsh criticism when it comes to his rendition of the National Anthem at Kobe's farewell game -- but says the critics are just "small-minded" haters.
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The first thing I did after getting my HPV diagnosis was to reach out to her to apologize for being so small-minded and judgemental, even though I never said those thoughts out loud.
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After all, one is not always in raptures over this country and its prowess at nurturing, in its own distinctive manner, unsurpassable callousness, matchless greed, small-minded sectarianism, and a gruesome infatuation with firearms.
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Small-minded people want to call this voting with my vagina, as if there is something wrong with wanting to see a woman become president after 44 men have had a go at it.
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But when tragedy befalls a student — as it does in Ms. Spark's story — it's made clear that it is not the big-hearted teacher who's to blame but the other, small-minded grown-ups.
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A bookish young woman, an outcast in her small-minded French village, is taken captive in a castle, where the servants have been magically turned into household objects (a feisty candelabra, a fussy clock).
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It's clear from this election that we're not yet the America we want to be, the America we are destined to be, and will most surely — despite the resistance of small-minded people— inevitably become.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Minutes before seeing a collection of William Bailey's meditative still-lifes and figure paintings, I heard, yet again, a series of small-minded and reckless comments by Donald Trump.
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A person who takes lots of trips seems adventurous, rich, and interested in their own self-development, and someone who doesn't prioritize travel may be viewed as small-minded and uninterested in external and internal exploration.
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The small-minded literal answer is that both Foer and Wieseltier are very well-liked and well-connected in the journalistic and literary worlds, and when they got fired they deployed their connections to torch Hughes.
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Like the politicians and operatives guiding the ship of state in "Veep," the crew members of the Avenue 5 are an often amoral, small-minded and quarrelsome bunch whose constant sniping provides the bulk of the humor.
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Being indifferent to small-minded judgements and realizing my world does not revolve around theirs, is what helped me combat the weird, toxic judgmental voice inside my head that constantly called me a "gashti" (Urdu word for slut).
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"Smith distances himself from certain stereotypes that small-minded, under-sexed people might negatively associate with young gay men who enjoy multiple partners and the ease at which modern technology can deliver them to your door," wrote Juzwiak.
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The small-minded speech included more praise for the King of Saudi Arabia -- who successfully lavished thick adulation on the American president -- than on the Atlantic alliance and the principles and values that bind America and its allies.
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In a sense, artists who condemn criticism are relying on the old idea that "it's the thought that counts": Because the intention of the giver is generous and pure, any carping about the gift is cruelly small-minded.
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"When Democrats have the White House again, if [Republican Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell continues to put small-minded partisanship ahead of solving the massive problems facing our country, then we should get rid of the filibuster," Warren said on Twitter.
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Renton has sworn off drugs—his one act of genuine generosity in T2 is to help Spud kick smack—but the small-minded, chip-on-his-shoulder attitude that provoked the addiction in the first place remains depressingly in evidence.
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Anyone who has been on dating app lately can attest to the fact that today, travel is not a privilege but a hobby; someone who doesn't prioritize travel may be viewed as small-minded, uninterested in external and internal exploration.
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" Renee explained what Levine meant after the show, saying, "I'm an African-American woman doing country music and so a lot of people that are still small-minded feel like I shouldn't do country music because of the color of my skin.
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There's the refusal to look me in the eye; directing all decision-making questions to the male colleague in the room, even when I hold a senior title or position; and small-minded questions or comments directed at me about domesticity or minutia.
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"When Democrats have the White House again, if Mitch McConnell tries to do what he did to President Obama, and puts small-minded partisanship ahead of solving the massive problems facing this country, then we should get rid of the filibuster," she said.
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And yet, despite all of that, senators, representatives, governors, and candidates up and down the Republican ticket continue to enable Trump and engage in the same cynical politics of resentment that created their small-minded-bully-of-a-candidate in the first place.
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And it's not just Brooks, but also some people I know and worked with in D.C. I've heard it for years, that we are small-minded and focused on small, irrelevant issues like the weather (which our livelihoods depend on) and daily family responsibilities.
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"When Democrats have the White House again, if Mitch McConnell tries to do what he did to President Obama, and puts small-minded partisanship ahead of solving the massive problems facing this country, then we should get rid of the filibuster," Warren told the conference.
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Often, it avoids the topic by writing off other resurrected residents as servile, small-minded, avaricious, and devoid of the capacity for intellectual growth — to the point where Bitworld is effectively a video game world with a few major characters and a host of NPCs.
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If anything, the decline of liberal and social-democratic parties is a result at least in part of their inability to distinguish what is legitimate and justifiable in nationalism from what is small-minded, bigoted and contrary to the national interest it claims to uphold.
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In white letters on a black, washy ground in the painting, we read this statement by Stalin: "In Part One, for instance, it is unlikely that the Tsar would kiss his wife for so long…" Doesn't this small-minded, humorless comment strike a chord?
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You can see them in the looks that residents give you when they pass; sneering snobs glaring down their noses with entitlement; small-minded townies, bullying you with eyes that you recognize from the primary school lunchroom; the old people, 80 and above, wearing blank stares.
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One of the many things I loved about making this show is how it made me realize how small-minded my own experience was and what a pleasure that I get to have this kind of growth as a person in the midst of my workday.
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To get to my particular beef: When I refer to an individual whose gender I don't know here in The Times, why do I usually have to choose either "he" or "she" or, in the clunkiest phrase ever cooked up by small-minded grammarians, "he or she"?
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With his death, the so-called greatest deliberative body in the world is reduced to an impotent collection of mostly small-minded men who will grovel before the president no matter how he demeans the office and no matter how many of our institutions and values he destroys.
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Throughout both books I was struck by the obviousness of the importance of work, either domestic or professional — the importance of contributing, of choosing a destiny, of being good at something, of participating in history, and the enraging pointlessness of small-minded repressions of a soaring and generous human urge.
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American and European leaders who submit to the notion that the Brexit is inevitable and "can't happen here" should consider the German elections in 85033 and the carnage that followed over the next 13 years, after which wise men founded the united Europe that could be destroyed by small-minded politicians today.
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This means the instructors can focus on other things, like preparing for the big couple's dance-off at 2001 Space Odyssey with the mature yet confused young woman who just wants to experience life in the Big City and get away from the small-minded folks down in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn – as you do.
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When we were sated, when we could stomach no more books, Tall Lionel suggested the Hawksmoor, to raise a glass to the old place, but I was dispirited by my colleagues, by their small-minded acquisitiveness, by the weather, by the thin drizzle now turning old book covers to pulp in the slowly filling Dumpster.
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" In the kind of moment that is the apogee of this show, she wept and recounted that she then stopped the "therapist," packed her car and drove off to a "beautiful life," a hot fiancée (a photo confirmed this as hard fact), and the revelation that she "didn't have to compromise or change for someone's small-minded view.
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We cannot be distracted by small minded comments and or ignorant comments to the point where we don't keep our eye on the fact that we have over a hundred federal judicial appointments at stake, we have executive orders that have been rolled back, and we have pieces of legislation which will have a devastating impact on our communities for years to come.
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A surfeit of gentlemen is far from the worst fate to befall a sport, and complaining about it might seem obscenely small-minded coming at the end of the most spectacular era that the men's game has ever seen — Federer with a record 17 Grand Slam singles titles; Nadal, 213; Djokovic, 12, the three combining to win 43 of the last 53 majors.
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When you're gay and grow up feeling like a hideous misfit, fully conscious that some believe your desires to be wicked and want to kill you for them, identifying with the Monster is hardly a stretch: A misunderstood beast finds solace in the solitude of the woods, but seems to endlessly face the wrath of the torch-bearing, small-minded inhabitants in the world beyond.
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There are only two reasons he would undertake a military response: (1) to distract from the net of investigations that are currently swirling and tightening around the neck of the White House; and (2) to appeal to his base of small-minded supporters who will eat this tough guy act up and turn out in droves for Trump's victory tour once we've bombed the hell of Syria.
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"In 2019, kindergartens are threatened when they change their menu, because it does not fit a small-minded picture of the world" The AfD, which is particularly strong in eastern states like Saxony, where Leipzig is situated, has grown in power by steadily hammering a narrative that Germany is under threat from Islam, capitalizing on anxieties over Germany's decision to welcome about a million asylum seekers during the height of Europe's migrant crisis in 2015.
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"When Democrats have the White House again, if [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE tries to do what he did to President Obama, and puts small-minded partisanship ahead of solving the massive problems facing this country, then we should get rid of the filibuster," she added.
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