"Now," continued Aramis, taking the same graceful position in his easy chair that he would have assumed in bed, and complacently examining his hand, which was as white and plump as that of a woman, and which he held in the air to cause the blood to descend, "now, as you have heard, D'Artagnan, Monsieur the Principal is desirous that my thesis should be dogmatic, while I, for my part, would rather it should be ideal.
"Admirable and dogmatic!" repeated the curate, who, about as strong as D'Artagnan with respect to Latin, carefully watched the Jesuit in order to keep step with him, and repeated his words like an echo.
Therefore your
dogmatic assertions and rash generalizations on things historical and sociological are not worth the breath you waste on them."
"That is touching another great and much disputed question," exclaimed the Doctor, who seized upon every distinct idea that the ardent and somewhat
dogmatic old man left exposed to his mental grasp, with the vain hope of inducing a logical discussion, in which he might bring his battery of syllogisms to annihilate the unscientific defences of his antagonist.
He had a round head, high above the ears, a crop of hair at once dense and silky, a broad, low forehead, a short nose, of the ironical and inquiring rather than of the
dogmatic or sensitive cast, and a mustache as delicate as that of a page in a romance.
It has had a name to live in some
dogmatic theology, but each man's innocence and his real liking of his neighbor have kept it a dead letter.
Science may be too
dogmatic in its denial of the unseen.
Back to his rooms, where the Revolution had sought him out to put to a sudden test his dormant instincts, his half-conscious thoughts and almost wholly unconscious ambitions, by the touch as of some furious and
dogmatic religion, with its call to frantic sacrifices, its tender resignations, its dreams and hopes uplifting the soul by the side of the most sombre moods of despair.
He was afraid of the men, and also of that old second mate of his who had been sailing with him for years--a gray-headed old humbug; and his steward, too, had been with him devil knows how long-- seventeen years or more--a
dogmatic sort of loafer who hated me like poison, just because I was the chief mate.
I carried a clear picture of his unkempt hair, his unbrushed coat, his dominant spectacles, his
dogmatic jaw.
The decisive reaction by the establishment and parties in the wake of the recent deadly terrorist attack in Mastung and Bannu, should have been the immediate barring and condemnation of all
dogmatic outfits being sanctioned in the polity.
Comedically absurd but also introspective, The Ugly challenges
dogmatic clinging to the letter of the law.
Contributing to the work of restating and expounding the biblical and
dogmatic underpinnings of a more traditional view of the triune God, Duby focuses on divine simplicity as one element in the theological mosaic.
Previously, the rebel group protested against what they said was IGAD's "
dogmatic" approach when it made decisions or passed resolutions on South Sudan in favour of one party, (government) with no presence of the other party to the conflict (SPLM-In-Opposition).
An idealised, idiosyncratic piece of
dogmatic art was delivered to the residents of Gosforth: 'idealised' because the interpretation intended (by the council) to be drawn from this pamphlet was one of Gosforth High Street being transformed into a better environment than it currently is in its normal state; 'idiosyncratic' because this mode of interpretation is purely that of the council and does not represent the majority of residents; and '
dogmatic' because I argue that the council are asserting their opinions of this red route through these pictures as incontrovertibly true.
