Sentence examples for essentially liberal from inspiring English sources

The opinion section in general is a case study in how essentially liberal institutions are undermined by the tools of their own liberalism.

This optimism would be helped if everyone agreed with Dworkin's essentially liberal view of humanity.

Murray, who taught classics at Oxford, also argued that the dramas harbored essentially liberal political values.

For President Obama, being "bipartisan" means incorporating a few right-of-center proposals into an essentially liberal legislative package.

The casual reader, however, would be forgiven for thinking that the leading lights of premodern Christianity were essentially liberal Episcopalians avant la lettre.

Essentially liberal by training and temperament, Trevelyan showed as a historian a love of England that was also indicated by his association with the National Trust (Must England's Beauty Perish?, 1929) and with youth hostels.

But while Clinton was essentially a liberal realist, Obama, when he entered the White House, was a liberal utopian, a messianic figure who harbored dreams of moving beyond partisanship — or, at least, that was how his campaign portrayed him.

And so, Reagan was essentially a liberal.

MSNBC had become, essentially, a liberal network.

What conservatives don't want to recognize is that the Constitution, especially when it includes the Bill of Rights, is essentially a liberal document.

But we might also read Bert as a character who knows that money doesn't buy you happiness – which is, essentially, a liberal view.