There's no magic formula that will transform a hidebound organization into one eager to adopt the latest software technology. |
From this it is but a short step to viewing those who oppose liberal ideas or policies as hidebound traditionalists, bigots, or ignoramuses. |
Despite its essential inequities and hidebound nostalgia, Old England was a gentle place of tolerance, common sense, and universal kindliness. |
He needed to transform the entrenched corporate culture, which had become hidebound and overly bureaucratic. |
For her part, Eliss found Ciaran dusty and hidebound, carrying as he did a clipboard, a stylus and a pair of pince-nez on a steel chain. |
It needs someone immediately capable of cutting through the company's notoriously intractable bureaucracy and hidebound engineering culture. |