Sentences with phrase «reactionary stance»

When lost so are the «wits & # of the so - called «confident and accomplished professionals» and they assume a more reactionary stance.

This is the kind of quick, reactionary stance that happens after every E3.

It's far better to take a defensive and reactionary stance.

This fearful and reactionary stance will not age well.

In 2016, that was considered a hopelessly reactionary stance.

Alf Dubs has made a good inroad into Tory intransigence on this and Labour should continue to pose practical alternatives which reflect its values and highlight Cameron's reactionary stance.

Similarly, severe racial discrimination was once the position of the conservative majority, but today it is coming to be seen as a reactionary stance.

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.

By adopting a purely reactionary stance against the idealism of Hegel (and the philosophical tradition in general) Nietzsche ends up providing us with a vision of nature and the world which is overly narrow in scope.

Not exact matches

The Elector was relieved to have someone holding a middle line between the extremism and violence which were now associated with Karlstadt on the one hand, and the purely reactionary papal and imperial stances on the other.

For the stances he has taken, Duesberg has faced such ferocious personal and professional attacks that in 1996 Richard Horton, editor of the British medical journal The Lancet and himself a critic of Duesberg, broke ranks and wrote in The New York Review of Books: «Duesberg deserves to be heard, and the ideological assassination that he has undergone will remain an embarrassing testament to the reactionary tendencies of modern science.

Aside from choosing the proper reactionary move, each character also assumes an offensive or defensive stance.

Not only was it a relief to come across a nonpolemical group show that attempted to be «honorable» (a stance that has perversely come to sound almost reactionary), but there were unexpected illuminations as a result of its good intentions — good intentions that included representation of more women than men (by one), a good number of relatively unknown artists, and as many unfashionable as fashionable trends.