Sentence examples for reactionary character from inspiring English sources

The idea of creating a reactionary character so that it can be the object of an audience's ridicule is a long comedic tradition.

Their long and close friendship caused Chekhov some unpopularity, owing to the politically reactionary character of Suvorin's newspaper, Novoye vremya ("New Time").

It walked a clever line, but the whole event had led Colbert into the hybrid third-way, forcing him to use his reactionary character to shore up his own progressive bona fides.

The press is partisan but free, and the most irreverent journalists, who inveigh on a daily basis against the corrupt and reactionary character of Lebanon's élites, are minor celebrities.

"The salvation of this country so far has been its imperviousness to abstract ideas," says the play's most reactionary character, a blowhard member of Parliament named, with Dickensian cheek, Blackborough.

In its original sense, the term had a more distinctly reactionary character aimed at the tides of modernism and liberal theology.

And I say this because for white liberals, it's easy to displace our own responsibility on to the more overtly reactionary kind of character, so that when we see a protester or the Tea Party rally that's got an overtly racist anti-Obama sign, it's easy for white liberals to smile and nod and say, "Oh, those awful racists".

When describing Kyle, Stone states that both he and the character are "reactionary", and susceptible to irritability and impatience.

While other LGBTQ+ themed shows that came later in the 90s, like Will and Grace, were written off by mainstream audiences as "too gay," Ranma ½ managed to bypass any reactionary protest perhaps because no characters explicitly identified as "gay" or "trans".

While other LGBTQ-themed shows that came later in the 90s, like Will and Grace, were written off by mainstream audiences as "too gay," Ranma 1/2 managed to bypass any reactionary protest perhaps because no characters explicitly identified as "gay" or "trans".

Not everyone is the reactionary, insular and frankly depressing character you make our UK people out to be, though one does come immediately to mind.