The one is a rigid ideologue, the other a savage.

Some environmentalists, however, praised Ms. Crotty's grasp of the issues and said she was not a rigid ideologue.

But he was soon embroiled in another war with rigid ideologues.

He is not a rigid ideologue.

Wilson was not a rigid ideologue; he thought on his feet and if the thinking did not suit a theory, then he stood his ground.

But the Democratic-majority Legislature is crammed with rigid ideologues on both sides who care little about the governor's evenhandedness.

His supporters add that he has never been a rigid ideologue and has always been able to work with Democrats.

Mr. Spitzer said in the interview, "If you're a rigid ideologue, you'll never get anything done."

It takes a rigid ideologue to make a mountain out of an anthill.

But underneath he sticks to the handful of beliefs that make him the most rigid ideologue ever to occupy the White House.