Sentence examples for obscurantist from inspiring English sources

On April 13th IBM announced plans to use a version of its Watson computer which crushed two puny human champions at an obscurantist American quiz show called Jeopardy! in 2011 to analyse health records, looking for medical insights.Deep thoughtResearch into artificial intelligence is as old as computers themselves.

All can seem part of a long, ongoing conflict between the values of the Enlightenment and obscurantist barbarism.

(Laos's obscurantist government publishes little information about anything).

WILL the west African nation of Mali have a happy 2013, freed from the malevolent and obscurantist influence of Ansar Dine rebels, linked to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb?

The religious establishment continues to be obscurantist, even medieval.

But that battle was quickly won, and most were quietly glad to see the obscurantist Taliban defeated.

Were you calling the foreigners?"The Taliban, though famously obscurantist, have embraced mobile telephony.

Others, citing programme notes which referred to post-structuralist philosophy, algorithmic theory, and other arcana, declared the work chilly and obscurantist.

For Iran is not just a country whose people look fated to squirm for a good while longer under the thumb of obscurantist clerics who claim a divine right to rule.

General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, casts such incidents as part of a struggle between his "enlightened moderation" and obscurantist militants.

"We're in a bit of a cleft," says Mr Gupta.He might as well be speaking of the Muslim world, where a similar confusion is being played out by obscurantist Islamists and pro-Western modernisers.