Sentence examples for reactionary as from inspiring English sources

He was a social reactionary as well as a champion of liberty, a Victorian aristocrat and imperialist rebranded as a democratic orator in the cauldron of war.

It's perfectly fair to call Burke reactionary, as long as we recall that most of his reactions were ones that any decent person would have had in the circumstances.

"Ethnicity" is seen not as a potentially porous category but as entrenched, and the economic analysis is utterly reactionary (as might be expected from the man who thinks George W Bush doesn't go far enough).

Is Michael as reactionary as he makes out?

There were those who described him as reactionary, as an unreconstructed Slavophile, a Russian nationalist, undemocratic and authoritarian.

This new situation quickly alarmed not only the Stationers' Company, which saw its privileges vanishing, but also Parliament, which proved to be as reactionary as the royalists.

Though the inter-war period is dominated by Saunders Lewis, for his political and reactionary views as much as his plays, poetry and criticism.

Peasants were initially treated as a reactionary element, as their love of individual ownership was seen as essentially capitalist; in the civil war of 1918-21, grain was forcibly requisitioned to feed the cities.

His long rule of the province had been interrupted for a decade or so after he was attacked in 1967 by "red guards", the hooligans Mao encouraged to target "reactionaries" as part of the cultural revolution.

(This is as true for reactionaries as it is for progressives, which is why no argument that divides us should ever be considered too marginal to be discredited. One day it may be mainstream).

The mantle which the left used to hold by railing against patriarchy and injustice has been picked up by reactionaries, as attempting not to be a sexist, racist prick has become more mainstream.