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The first is that the film's mainstream success--it's now grossed more than $108 million--speaks to the tremendous flexibility of even as hidebound an industry as Hollywood.
It is unsurprising that the Navy, generally regarded as the most hidebound branch of the military (and the one most resistant to ending racial segregation), found a compelling need, in the national interest and for essential military purposes that you wouldn't understand, to sustain a reactionary social policy.
Executives are often too close to problems or too hidebound in their thinking to produce new solutions.
Both pit a morally hidebound middle against a culturally permissive overclass.
I have few data to support me, and my stamina are not up to long, tedious research, but I have a hunch that media —the main agendum on many a pedant's plate these days—is well on its way to becoming a standard singular noun, except perhaps among hidebound literati and intransigent intelligentsia on various university campi, in style books, and in other blessed receptacles of holy semantic writ.