Sentences with phrase «even reactionary»

Clinicians have long considered theories that emphasize inborn predispositions as antiquated and even reactionary.

At Tanya Leighton Gallery, the estimable Sharon Hayes has collected old records of speeches and lectures by some of the worst politicians in American history («Freedom's Finest Hour» by Ronald Reagan, or «The Barry Goldwater Story»)-- a reminder that in the US, even reactionary politics eventually ends up in the market's clutches.

While there is increasing appreciation for Hirsch's insights, bolstered by a mountain of cognitive research, it's important to recall that his work was once summarily dismissed (and sometimes still is) as the product of a conservative, even reactionary mind, even though Hirsch has described himself as «practically a socialist.»

The very term «orthodoxy» carries with it connotations of conservative, even reactionary consolidation.

The absence of serious moral debate leaves conservative and even reactionary moral forces as the only voice on the subject of homosexuality.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, religion becomes increasingly reactionary & fanatical in response, which drives away intelligent people even quicker.

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

E.g. the story of the young Italo - American who hijacked a passenger plane to get home from California to Rome was taken up without protest even by the reactionary mass press and undoubtedly correctly understood by its readers.

A very cautious liberal, as I had experienced reactionary theology in my first church even before I was seminary trained.

One could believe that Lewis was a theologically idiotic, reactionary old misogynist who couldn't write his way out of a wet paper bag, whose Narnia tales are a disgraceful blight on the landscape of children's literature, whose Aslan is a blasphemous parody of Our Lord, and — believing all that — one could still be a faithful Christian, even a devoted Anglican.

Of course, similar judgments are constantly passed by theological reactionaries, and there are many who regard a theology even on secular terms (such as I should want to defend) as equally out of the question.

As to method, the older view was rooted in the traditional ecclesiastical theory of Mark's derivation from Matthew — which modern Synoptic study completely reverses — and it took for granted a conception of «Paulinism» which made the Apostle to the Gentiles responsible for everything in primitive Christianity which could not be squared with a crass, reactionary Christian Judaism; it completely ignored the development of a Gentile type — or types — of Christianity apart from and even prior to the work of Paul.

This is what Bill Nye is going on about: we have a nation full of knee - jerk reactionaries quick to dismiss what they don't even posess a high - school level understanding of, simply because it doesn't fit perfectly with the mindlessly repeated dogma they've been indoctrinated with since birth.

Religion is not likely to die out, he says; it may even flourish among reactionary groups critical of political and economic processes.

• Even if one agrees with Mark Noll, who is perhaps the most distinguished Evangelical historian we have, Dale at least offers a helpful insight into the history and thought of a movement most other Christians in America tend to dismiss as rubes, fundamentalists, reactionaries, crazies (snake handling?

The Fascist regime itself, whatever its negative features, probably contributed to that «passive revolution» in another of the senses in which Gramsci used the term, in which important social changes can go on even under reactionary and repressive regimes — the gradual erosion of particularistic and traditional authority structures and the development of more egalitarian social forms — though it may be in the nature of the less effective Italian Fascist regime to have served more as a guardian for such structures and less as a corrosive to them than in the more efficient fascist regimes in Germany and Japan.

Obnoxious evangelicals who do not mind their own business and who do not respect even the most basic tenets of Christianity are not in a position to whine when someone challenges their reactionary political agenda.

Those two games were not tiki - taka victories but even while playing their reactionary game, no one could say that this Chelsea team approached any game with fear.

But there is a pan-Nigeria colony of the oppressed and dispossessed, to feed the greed of this — wait for it — pan-Nigeria unconscionable elite, which even includes reactionary elements from the South West, in the perpetual days of opposition.

But before he could even clear that mess in 1984 — no thanks to his junta's fatal failure to communicate its own actions — reactionary forces overthrew him in a palace coup.

This usually crops up when young people of color are asked to empty their pockets by police (yes, even now that the NYPD has reduced the frequency of stop - and - frisks); in 2010, the state arrested more than 100,000 people for marijuana possession, leaving more reactionary destinations like Texas in the dust.

Many of these reactionaries openly nailed MKO's mandate, even while it was still hot!

Even then, arbitrary power, and its reactionary use, came with that pristine territory.

Blair criticised «radical leftism, which is often in fact quite reactionary» and stated that he would not take a hard left line, even if it was the way to win.

Winger was just a reactionary character, who exchanged dialogue opposite Hathaway, DeWitt, and Irwin to make them all look even better.

But what is even cooler is that Rogen still relates and seem to justify this character's existence to a reactionary extent that it surpasses the sadly - eclipsed reach of a director like Todd Solondz.

Though a longtime fan, my distinct aversion to «Grumpy Old Men» movies — which seem to coat a thin veneer of rebelliousness over reactionary conservatism — the story of an irascible nonagenarian staring down mortality, even tailored to its star, had little appeal.

Sure, every movie has its vocal detractors on the Internet, but even with reactionary contrarianism to critical consensus, Batman v Superman sits with a lower IMDb user rating than every single film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The latter's politically - inspired performances (Beuys would later be a co-founder of the West German Green Party) and dismissal of painting as a reactionary medium helped steer Polke, true to his impeccably contrarian credentials, to embrace painting even more fervently.

As such, his aesthetic is inseparable from the pertinent extra-aesthetic issues of the age, including income inequality, the constant threat of reactionary politics, and the authoritarian abuse of power, as well as the fact of the artist's own queerness, all of which he allows to saturate his work even as he eschews polemics.

The other idea is that this is the age of machines and that to dislike the machine, or even to want to limit its domination, is backward - looking, reactionary and slightly ridiculous.

«Reactionary» is even more subject to these differences in definition, since it's broadly defined by a desire to return to some imagined past ideal, which is open not only to differences in perception of existing (past) milieus, but differences in how far back they're looking.

Unless the effects of imbecilic and reactionary political dictatorship are even worse than many fear, a functioning and progressive legal machine will continue to operate in one way or another.

Even if you meant to refer to time spent in the profession rather than physiological age, you were ignoring the existence of older reformers and younger reactionaries.

The opposite of this is the all - too - often reactionary or passive - receiver roles that even top executives get duped into from time to time, causing them to jump on anything that comes along.

While these emotions may arise unconsciously in the client, and feel almost satisfying to him or her, it's not conscious lawyering if I jump right into that emotional sandbox with them; that's just being reactionary, and it usually leads to making the situation even more difficult for the client.