Sentence examples for reactionary of from inspiring English sources

(He had been a full-fledged collaborator with Vichy during the war; afterward, he became a reactionary of the table, and flourished).

Time was when the assent of a single African-American was hailed as evidence of benign intent in even the most reactionary of schemes.

Sadly, too, the Chinese explanation for unrest remains unchanged: in 1959, as now, it was blamed on a "few reactionaries manipulated by foreign powers".The chief reactionary, of course, is the Dalai Lama himself, whom China still vilifies.

From the society's magazine — it is filled with decorous views of the French countryside primly bordered by dated typography — one would expect an old French reactionary of a specific predictable sort: gray-suited, silver-haired, with matching metal-rimmed glasses, a decoration in his buttonhole, and a fierce, intelligent suspicion in his eyes of America, the modern and meretricious.

"I think the Republican Party always fights the image of being reactionary, of being backward-looking, of not being atop the most recent trends in the country," said Allan J. Lichtman, chairman of the history department at American University in Washington.

And in the darkness each night and in the greyness of each morning when I wake I remember your face and your voice and your body and everything about you so earnestly and intensely that you become almost tangibly beside me.' A man who could provoke such love cannot have been the intolerant drunkard and religious reactionary of legend.

Though only mildly liberal, he moderated some of the reactionary excesses of the twilight years of the old imperial system.

More important, Andress sets out to demonstrate, the Terror was also a consequence of the reactionary encirclement of France by the other powers of Europe.

They have the money of the reactionaries of the right".

These were Buckley's ideological children, and the cruder reactionaries of talk radio, the Republican far right, and organized Christianism are his political grandchildren.

And that was just what worried the reactionaries of his day.