Gradgrindian

It's frightening that people can still come out with that kind of Gradgrindian nonsense.

Censorship Watch: Harry Potter and the Idiotic Removal fusenumber8 2006

It's frightening that people can still come out with that kind of Gradgrindian nonsense.

Archive 2006-02-01 fusenumber8 2006

And this script was a gem of its genre -- lean, clean, and (truth to tell) a lot more dramatic than the novel itself, which is thoroughly Gradgrindian in its pedantic tone and constant sermonettes.

Hard Times deliasherman 2010

And this script was a gem of its genre -- lean, clean, and (truth to tell) a lot more dramatic than the novel itself, which is thoroughly Gradgrindian in its pedantic tone and constant sermonettes.

Hard Times deliasherman 2010

Presumably in the Gradgrindian world of narrow rationality that has made this brand of economics infamous, we will choose our action based on whether the resultant number is positive or negative.

'Genes in the Food': An Exchange Fuller, Colleen 2001

_Imprimis, as concerns the authenticity of these tales perhaps the less debate may be the higher wisdom, if only because this Nicolas de Caen, by common report, was never a Gradgrindian.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

Imprimis, as concerns the authenticity of these tales perhaps the less debate may be the higher wisdom, if only because this Nicolas de Caen, by common report, was never a Gradgrindian.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

"If You Could Be Anywhere Right Now," on the other hand, was an opportunity to kick free of the Gradgrindian exactitude demanded of you by the preceding questions and make good on your profile's nascent kinship with the headiest flourishes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Slate Magazine Tom Shone 2011

It is entirely possible that their Lordships will succeed in voting the measure down, and no doubt the speeches today will be filled with anguished descriptions of those who would otherwise have suffered from the Coalition's Gradgrindian cruelty.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph View 2012

There are a few derelict works in the centre, all mercifully un-Urban Splashed - but neither the industrial or commercial buildings remotely approach the awesome Gradgrindian brutality you can find in Manchester or Nottingham, while the buildings of the 50s, 60s, 70s and early 80s (irrespective of demolitions) are like nothing else.

sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy 2009