Sentence examples similar to a reactionary note from inspiring English sources

But he was, as the show's catalog notes, a reactionary revolutionary, one who placed hope not in the modernist present and future, which he despised and feared, but in an uncorrupted, uncolonized past, a past that had, like a princely birthright, been snatched away from him, and that he ended up spending a lifetime trying to recover.

The clamor around Af Klint as inventor of abstract art is partly a reactionary hangover, as critic Peter Schjeldahl has noted, of the generally discredited idea of artistic progress.

As a result, Peaver notes, "among the liberal intelligentsia Leskov bore the totally misplaced stigma of a reactionary all his life, and it lingered on into Soviet times".

It's a reactionary business".

I am a reactionary.

Yes, I am a reactionary.

"He is a reactionary critic of liberalism".

He quickly became a reactionary tyrant.

"She is part of a reactionary generation".

Hogan is not a reactionary hothead.

Annex a reactionary state or two – Arizona?