Sentences with phrase «like reactionary»

Now, stop and ask yourself, do you want to trade like a reactionary animal or insect?

This feels like a reactionary type move rather than a move made because they didn't want Mai.

Sending a semi-useful (most importantly, cheap) veteran PG out the door to facilitate DET dumping an abuser for a possible better tasting, still stale, cookie years from now still seems pointless, and like a reactionary trade because it was at least «something».

Legislation based on degrees of consanguinity seems like a reactionary remnant of the bigoted bourgeois morality of a bygone age.

Not exact matches

Believe us; a plan will eliminate making last - minute reactionary decisions that could result in some costly mistakes, like maybe losing a valued employee.

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.

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.

Islam, like Marxism, has been allied with highly progressive movements as well as with decidedly reactionary regimes.

This belief is a reaction to an earlier age of Western triumphalism that overlooked the genuine achievements of the Islamic philosopher (faylasuf); but like many reactionary movements, it overcompensates and praises a golden age that never quite was.

Same seems to go with the reactionary stance of Christian men, who seem so afraid of not having the edge anymore that they must stamp back down on women to feel like the world is in proper order.

Eire's final chapter on the great Reformer is headed «Luther the reactionary» and deals with Luther's violent repudiation of the apocalyptic radicalism of former disciples like Andreas Karlstadt and Thomas Müntzer, and especially with the Wittenbergers» savage reaction to the Peasants» Revolt of 1525.

Nor can they explain how converts like Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton were attracted to this Church whose public face is taken to have been that of a xenophobic, anti-intellectual, politically reactionary ghetto.

I understand what the team is trying to do, make it seem like they don't hire soft core porn stars or something, but they were too reactionary in this case.

The reason is because that first month is all reactionary, much like the first level of a new video game.

Yet the response of nations is too often reactionary and punitive towards individuals making the move, causing policies like Mare Nostrum to be cut short.

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.

But the threat to Osun enjoying a Lagos - like golden continuation, and not enduring the old West's reactionary roll - back, would appear to lie less with the Osun conservatives, no matter how desperate they may be, but with the governor's own internal foes, craving pork but pretending all is cool.

Some have reactionary views on issues like immigration.

Is that what reactionaries like?

Democrats should take advantage of the Republican infighting and the creepiest reactionary rhetoric getting spewed with a campaign message like so:

Heffer says Cameron doesn't like his party at all and regards its members as reactionary and common.

The few people who defend the lawyers in messages to newsgroups tend, like Canter and Siegel themselves, towards impatience with what they see as a reactionary response to the wave of commerce now sweeping the Internet.

I honestly think you have to go with your gut and can't be reactionary; changing something because you think someone else might not like it.

And I wouldn't mind that concept, if the film at least had a story to go along with it, instead of segments (or skits) of humans acting like selfish, reactionary assholes.

, the insta - reactionary - ness of Twitter trending films and people up or down like stocks.

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.

Like King's attempts to wrest control of women's tennis from the regressive, reactionary men who controlled the financial structure, including prize money, change toward equality, both women's and LBGTQ, was and continues to be gradual, incremental, but rarely temporary.

In a real way, her pictures are as objectionable as those films regularly pilloried for objectifying women (and those like the unforgivable Love Actually that somehow slip under the radar for doing the same), functioning as something of a reactionary version of feminism that seeks to denigrate the opposite gender as the sole means toward gender equality.

But Stillman's film neither demolishes its pampered class nor indulges it in the manner of reactionary nostalgia like Downton Abbey.

Then there's an old professor (Jan Tríska) trying to win a divorce from his long - estranged wife (Emilia Vasaryova) so that he can marry his long - time girlfriend (Igrid Timkova), and the whole thing climaxes with something like a wagged finger, with the professor's expat son (Petr Forman) bucking the reactionary provincialism of his homeland by revealing an aboriginal wife and a mulatto son.

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

This is very convenient for those political reactionaries who like to blame the poor for their own poverty, and who are adamant that nothing can be done, at the governmental level, to reduce social and economic inequality.

The synopsis of the study wasn't that games are evil and cause brain damage, it was that certain games basically put players into an auto - pilot like state that relies solely on reactionary thinking can cause grey matter loss in the hippocampus.

Such attitudes are reactionary, revealing how those developers of first - person walker games are successfully disrupting expectations of what games should feel, play, and look like.

However, combat itself very much plays like a puzzle, albeit one that asks players to solve it in a very reactionary manner of frenzied shifting, kicking, and punching.

This may not sound like a big deal, especially to those who haven't experienced a Dragonball game, but in order to convey the character's reactionary pain from an attack, earlier version of the game typically interrupted the action for a brief cutscene to show damage and its toll on the character.

Much else, though, is obvious indeed, like billboards from Barbara Kruger (Blind Idealism Is Reactionary Scary Deadly) and Kathryn Andrews (Beyond This Point You May Encounter Nude Sunbathers).

Like Ligon, these and other artists explored loaded questions around representations of race, gender and sexuality during the reactionary aftermath of the «Culture Wars ‟ and the AIDS crisis at the close of the Reagan era.

It seems like a really reactionary, smarmy thing to do.

It obviously gives great comfort to shallow reactionaries like Robert and many others.

I don't think people like Latie want to advance knowledge, being almost reactionary in their views.

We don't know if Loughner was answering the call, but given the animus engendered amongst wide layers of borderline crazy reactionaries, something like this was always a distinct possibility.

Fuller's framework explains why ostensibly lefty environmentalists like Naomi Klein can adopt similar back - to - the - land, localist positions as right - wing doomsday preppers and reactionary anti-urbanites.

reactionary true believers like you prevent reasonable people from making any progress on this.

In fact, these environmental groups like to shout down the U.S. Chamber and other groups who talk about costs — accusing us of being reactionary anti-environmentalists who want the planet to cook.

You are playing into the hands of the sceptics with a site like this, it is too reactionary, too much «doth protest too much».

I also like strikes, marches, sine - waving generally, but I have given up on that model because it failed to move Obama and the dems to make bold choices about policy in 2009 and the elections since that time have been so reactionary and destructive of the «common good» that I don't want to waste my time in these activities now.

Mike said: I also like strikes, marches, sine - waving generally, but I have given up on that model because it failed to move Obama and the dems to make bold choices about policy in 2009 and the elections since that time have been so reactionary and destructive of the «common good» that I don't want to waste my time in these activities now.

Matt Ridley in the Rational Optimist make a good defence of the word «progressive», and an argument against reactionary movements like environmentalism, especially Malthusian.

Still undecided about «inactivists» vs. «deactivists», but I remember also proposing «reactivists» (which sounds a bit like «reactionaries»)...