If you don't like dance music but like rock, you can live a sheltered narrow-minded life where you never experience dance.

He had not got into the way of learning his lessons when he was a child; he had not been made to learn his lessons when he was a child; and the dislike and contempt he had for his books as a boy accompanied him through an ignorant and a narrow-minded life.

When Vanya and Astrov enter, Astrov says that in this district only he and Vanya were "decent, cultured men" and that ten years of "narrow-minded life" have made them vulgar.

One is Rutherford Sr.'s sister, Ann, a dour and unquestioning woman of 60 or so who clearly represents the unpleasantness of the narrow-minded life her brother has built around them.