Sentences with phrase «for reactionary»

Its also, obviously, an excellent time for reactionary art.

Despite being formally expelled from the Surrealist group in 1934 for his reactionary political views, he is today most often associated with this movement.

* Those responsible * for the reactionary policies that continue to block the use of teaching materials requiring the continuous use of complex thought processes owe America a satisfactory answer to a question:

And for a reactionary bunch like CTA, that is a fate worse than death.

It also seems near certain now that Phillip Davies, a Tory MP hated by left - wingers and especially feminists for his reactionary views, has lost his seats.

On this score, suffice it to add only that if a resurgent fundamentalism confirms that the truth of the Christian witness continues to be a problem for theology as well as the church, the support currently being shown by Christians for the reactionary politics of the New Right makes only too clear that the same is true of the justice of their witness as well.

You appear to have a lot of antipathy for reactionary strands of Protestantism but these are completely different from Catholicism.

He adds «we can see how religious faith can be used for reactionary purposes.

Chuck Klosterman, one of the hip kids of American literature, is an unlikely source for reactionary musing.

Spend your energy (and time and money) identifying the root of the problem, and creating a definitive solution, rather than going for reactionary quick fixes that provide only superficial and temporary solutions.

Marxists, libertarians, and other progressives often mistake conservatives for reactionaries.

The religious marriage would be for the reactionaries and the dinosaurs who want to live in the past, while a civil marriage, whether it is between a man and a woman, a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, would be modern, secular and progressive.

In other words, events from the collapse of Lehman Brothers to the crisis in the eurozone have provided cover for the reactionaries who would roll Britain's tax settlement back to the 1970s - at a time when our competitors are following the example of the 1980s.

Not exact matches

This isn't all reactionary foolishness: There is a well - documented history of companies using their own blunders as springboards for growth.

Given the broad possibilities for addressing energy in a transatlantic trade framework, the EU should not foreclose further cooperation, particularly if this were to empower some of the more thoughtful, less reactionary principals within the administration.

For the first time in many years, our money is going on several reactionary interest rate increases in 2018 and that spells good news for owners of US dollaFor the first time in many years, our money is going on several reactionary interest rate increases in 2018 and that spells good news for owners of US dollafor owners of US dollars.

Many traders look for trade signals from a combination of just a few tools and indicators to build their «weight of evidence» to help them make more objective and less emotional trading decisions instead of reacting to any price movement on a reactionary basis.

What I think Jerry was hoping for was that the Atheists here stop reacting in a reactionary sort of way and start stating their position on their own two feet; in other words, come up with proof of their claim «there is no god».

I think also that because a good deal of it will be reactionary, it will for a time, be riding an undercurrent of disrespect, ego, a kind of self - righteousness (oddly enough), and an antagonistic — almost bullying — mentality lacking in grace or love, lampooning those thinking differently.

The educational reactionary thinks there is a single natural canon for the regulation of a good and just society, and that it should be the core of any undergraduate curriculum.

It would also seem that in a post-Jenner world complaints about unequal pay for men and women in athletics are profoundly misplaced and merely part of the ongoing reactionary attempt to protect the imperialist structures embedded in these hatesports.

This creates a false dichotomy between a liberal, pacifist, feminist Jesus and a reactionary, violent, and patriarchal Judaism, a dichotomy that in turn sets the stage for new and modern anti «Judaism.

For fellow Christians to implicate one of the beacons for Christian thought in the 21st century as a bigoted, senseless, reactionary institution, is equivalent to denying the ultimate conclusions and results of Wheaton's work in the 21st century up until this point, which as a graduate living in a secular world, has been mostly of incredible benefit not only to our world, but the kingdom beyoFor fellow Christians to implicate one of the beacons for Christian thought in the 21st century as a bigoted, senseless, reactionary institution, is equivalent to denying the ultimate conclusions and results of Wheaton's work in the 21st century up until this point, which as a graduate living in a secular world, has been mostly of incredible benefit not only to our world, but the kingdom beyofor Christian thought in the 21st century as a bigoted, senseless, reactionary institution, is equivalent to denying the ultimate conclusions and results of Wheaton's work in the 21st century up until this point, which as a graduate living in a secular world, has been mostly of incredible benefit not only to our world, but the kingdom beyond.

• A U.S. aid package to Nicaragua approved by the U.S. Congress in 1980, a year after the ouster of the U.S. - backed dictatorship, targeted the most reactionary business organization for substantial aid.

This is the case, for instance with most resurgent or reactionary movement and that is the reason why such movements are described by the term [loaded now with negative connotation] fundamentalism.

it's a shame that something that should be so good for people and make them better people has been used to manipulate people into supporting reactionary and intolerant groups who seek to keep people ignorant and under their thumb for money and power.

In Perreau - Saussine's words, the new generation of thinkers «traded in reactionary ultramontanism for liberal ultramontanism.»

A sharp moral dichotomy is drawn between we who are for justice, peace, equality, etc., and they who are the «capitalists,» «reactionaries,» «imperialists,» etc..

Some in the church tend to believe that the seminary — at least «liberal» interdenominational seminaries like ours — are, with horrendous results, hopelessly detached from the realities of the workaday world and — such is the mind of our most bitter (and most reactionary) critics — that our graduates are rendered in fact maladroit if not downright incompetent by the very training designed to fit them for ministry.

He is liberal enough to call Cardinal Ottaviani a «reactionary» but conservative enough to comment that Rocco Buttiglione» rejected as justice minister for the European Union because of his traditional social beliefs» was subject to a «secularist media witch - hunt.»

Catholicism, for them, is not a reactionary, rear - guard action.

Yet many South African mainline Christians accept Faith for the Fearful as proof that the new charismatic churches are reactionary.

Saying these superbugs have the potential to pose a greater threat than global warming, Davies called for more proactive medical treatment than prescriptive, reactionary treatment.

It was no easy business then, any more than it is today, and the parallels between the attempts by various regimes, both reactionary and liberal, to get control of the Catholic Church suggest that today's battles for religious freedom in full are not without their 19th - century precedents.

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.

As we learn from Nietzsche and Freud, such a reactionary movement must secretly desire the very thing it hates for the sake of its identity.

Such applications cause real difficulties for any attempt to apply northern concepts of liberal and conservative, progressive and reactionary, fundamentalist and literalist.

While guarding against nostalgia for what was, after all, a terrible time, she fondly recalls the score - keeping discussions her parents conducted with Frankfurter and Isaiah Berlin: «We all knew who the friends had been — but oh the guffaws and acerbic dismissals of the enemies: the appeasers, the reactionaries, the anti-Semitic Jews, the isolationists.

these quests for identity and self - consciousness face caveat from various quarters, not just from reactionary and capitalist circles,... but also from fundamentalist forces under the pretext of nationalism, and incredibly from some of the revolutionary leftist parties as well.

There are some distinguished and competent thinkers and writers in those circles, to be sure, but by - and - large the support for it has come either from ignorant laypeople who find its authoritative manner of speaking emotionally appealing or from those who belong to what might be called reactionary conservatism and who are annoyed by much that is found in the modern world and eager to return to «the old time religion.»

Though a host of his ideological enemies have branded him a «reactionary elitist» for his belief in objective aesthetic standards, Kramer is no Philistine.

The church - on - campus model is not a reactionary call for a return to pre -»60s «glory days» or to an outdated worship style or study method.

You can pick from fear of marriage (Honeymoon) or fear of gentrification (Mulberry Street) or fear of art (Mr. Jones); you can stream yourself a reactionary zombie satire (American Zombie) or a heartbreaking portrayal of caring for a parent with Alzheimer's (The Taking of Deborah Logan), and all of these are solid, satisfying horror shows.

I see the same dynamic at work in Charlie Self's call for a faithful and activist «renewal» over against a reactionary «retrenchment» or a syncretistic «revision.»

For Marx, MacIntyre would simply be a reactionary.

For it is a plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation.»

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.

The Church has been dominated by unforgiving reactionaries for too long.

The distinctiveness of Mahoney's book is the careful rhetorical strategy that he has devised, both to win over skeptical or hostile readers and to make a plausible case for Solzhenitsyn as a political moderate who is neither a Tsarist reactionary nor an Enlightenment liberal.

Are we to seek, and work earnestly for, a reactionary return to former ways?