On climate change as on other issues, he has transformed himself, bit by reactionary bit.
"He was a bit of a reactionary in that he viewed the mathematical foundations of continuum mechanics to be on rather shaky ground, and he set about to put this right," said Jerrold E. Marsden, a professor in the department of control and dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology.
Today, the company is signaling a bit of a reactionary shift in its strategy by releasing a developer preview of ARCore, a platform that will deliver AR capabilities to Android smartphones at a scale Tango was never able to reach.
And some states that have agreed to let in foreign supermarkets, such as Tesco or Walmart, could push on with it, despite opposition from reactionary bits of the ruling (and nationalist) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP .Then internal barriers to trade need to go, removing state checkpoints on roads as well as crazy restrictions on who may sell farm goods over state lines.
He actually writes that society is in sharp decline because women had won the right to vote, one of his most dully reactionary bits of commentary.
The California Republican Party is every bit as backward and reactionary as its Southern counterparts.
He could be a reactionary and a bit of a moaner, often unable to hide his displeasure at a faulty bowling technique, though praise was also willingly given.
He'd long ago lost track of how he was supposed to feel, and on days like this, nights like this, treatment or not, it was hard not to be worried, a little bit, that some of the reactionary, conservative doctors whom Hayley had railed against at home, the ones who'd scorecarded Julian in the normal range, might actually have been right.
Despite that achievement, Mr. Strauss was unable to overcome the belief that he was reactionary -- and a bit of a rube.
