7 Metaphors for narrownesses
His narrowness is his strength, and makes unselfishness easier by saving his mind from question.
Then, that which was objectionable in itself, and contributed to the insalubrity of the city, namely, the extreme narrowness of the streets, and overhanging stories of the houses, was the main source of their beauty.
The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.
The narrowness of intellectual range and the bigotrypolitical and religiousprevailing amongst them was such as I had in no experience ever encountered, even in the "straitest sect of the Pharisees," the Seventh Day Baptist Church of my youth.
And if there is in the type a certain narrowness of sympathy and lack of intelligent interest which offends us, we may ask whether, with our human limitations, narrowness is not to some extent the price we pay for strength; whether where decision of judgment and energy of action is demanded, as in times of persecution, width of view and multiplicity of sympathies may not be a source of weakness.
Their very numbers and the narrowness of the passage was our only salvation.
His narrowness of imagination, his lack of general ideas, has been the despair of the Socialist and of every sort of revolutionary theorist.