Sentence examples for reactionary atmosphere from inspiring English sources
Although lively and intelligent, he was raised in an ultraclerical and reactionary atmosphere by his doting mother.
In the somewhat reactionary atmosphere of the July monarchy in the 1840s, Proudhon narrowly missed prosecution for his statements in What Is Property?; and he was brought into court when, in 1842, he published a more inflammatory sequel, Avertissement aux propriétaires (Warning to Proprietors, 1876).
Diplomacy: Bush invaded Iraq as soon as the reactionary political atmosphere proved conducive; he did not take the time to plan strategies for occupation or exit.
"Fairbrother's dead?" roared Howard, but then Howard was as prone to roaring as an angry lion effervescing in the atmosphere since he was the archetypal reactionary Middle Englander, a man as flabbily obese as this prose.
The key is the creation of an atmosphere of "chaos"; military and other reactionary forces would then "move in to end the chaos".
"The Human Stain" portrays a contemporary version of "the indigenous American berserk": the leftish and reactionary pieties, the pervasive and knowing gossip, the impoverishment of the language, the atmosphere of political and sexual inquisition.
PROFILE of writer Philip Roth, 67... Quotes from the opening of his new novel, "The Human Stain".... "The Human Stain" portrays a contemporary version of "the indigenous American berserk": the leftish and reactionary pieties, the pervasive and knowing gossip, the impoverishment of the language, the atmosphere of political and sexual inquisition.
The New Yorker, May 8, 2000 P. 76 PROFILE of writer Philip Roth, 67... Quotes from the opening of his new novel, "The Human Stain".... "The Human Stain" portrays a contemporary version of "the indigenous American berserk": the leftish and reactionary pieties, the pervasive and knowing gossip, the impoverishment of the language, the atmosphere of political and sexual inquisition.
More grand reactionary than great writer, Mailer was a faux-radical who used the taboo-breaking atmosphere of the 60s as cover for a career of lifelong self-promotion.
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