Although this content was clearly reactionary in nature, it also illustrates Gap's awareness of the need to consider the needs of diverse stakeholders, including fringe groups, in an attempt to engender goodwill and minimize the likelihood of organized responses to unpopular business decisions (Hart & Sharma, 2004).
What emerges from their comprehensive overview of the content is an understanding that such impact was not always as reactionary as many commentators have tended to argue.
José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, took his turn in a recent interview with The New York Times, in which he dismissed as "reactionary" an initiative — whose author he didn't name — to exclude movies, television shows and other audiovisual content from the early round of free trade negotiations between the European Union and the United States.
Pinfold surprised the critics by its originality; its plainly autobiographical content, Hastings suggests, gave the public a fixed image of Waugh—"stout, splenetic, red-faced and reactionary, a figure from burlesque complete with cigar, bowler hat and loud checked suit".
"Strike hard against the reactionary propaganda," Mr. Chen wrote, adding that the government would confiscate illegal satellite dishes, increase its monitoring of online content and make sure all telephone and Internet users were registered using their real names.
Nev, we realise, has become an unexamined reader of surfaces, a budding middle-aged reactionary who finds himself increasingly out of place in democratic South Africa, averse to "poking around in the pitiful contents of strangers' lives".
alt-right: noun An ideological grouping associated with extreme conservative or reactionary viewpoints, characterised by a rejection of mainstream politics and by the use of online media to disseminate deliberately controversial content.
"Reactionary" is similar.
Opposing housebuilding looks reactionary.
