Sentences with phrase «by obscurantism»

Faith and religious enthusiasm were replaced in many cases by obscurantism and superstition, and the true charismatic was almost obscured by hereditary dynasties of zaddikim who lived in oriental luxury and exploited the credulity of the people.

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Protestant, liberal, and Anglo - American historians repeated without challenge the heroic defense of freedom by Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican reformers, by Dutch freedom fighters against Spanish cruelty and tyranny, and by intellectual opponents of religious obscurantism in the eighteenth century.

And thus, our years in review may be construed for their difference — a difference marked by contrarianism, anachronism, obscurantism, compulsion, and, above all, variety.

Full of bright primary colors, punny chapter breaks, all manner of meta - winks and other strenuous bits of Godardian business, the movie draws an unambiguous parallel between the disintegration of their relationship and the loss of Godard's filmmaking mojo as he is swallowed whole by his own surly, disagreeable post -»60s obscurantism.

You see leftist environmental agendas allied by academic postmodernism's retreat into obscurantism and terrorist direct action, alike.