narrowness

He regretted what he termed the narrowness of the Public

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

Indeed, her lifelong familiarity with what she termed the narrowness of a small community made her the more intolerant, now that its groove was closing about her for a second time.

The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

Southern jealousy in this regard ultimated inevitably in Southern narrowness,

William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889

She calls the narrowness of Woody Allen's focus "self-absorption."

This Recording 2009

The Hinayana, or narrow vehicle, is not all that narrow in its view: the narrowness is the immediacy of focus on the individual practitioner himself or herself, the goal being soso tharpa (Tibetan: individual liberation from suffering in samsara).

Hegel on Buddhism 2007

But the men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell.

Heretics 1905

To the virtuous and deserving among the Americans, nothing can be more disagreeable than national reflections; they are, and must be, in the eyes of every judicious man, odious and contemptible, and bespeak a narrowness of soul which the virtuous are strangers to.

An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893

It makes us more tolerant toward a certain narrowness, which is often provincial and sometimes almost parochial.

Inquiries and Opinions Brander Matthews 1890

In reading Alfieri, I am always struck with what I may call the narrowness of his tragedies.

Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878

My press has no rank but from its narrowness, that is, from the paucity of its editions, and from being a volunteer.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757