Sentence examples for reactionary position from inspiring English sources

This hypocritical, reactionary position arguably reinforces the narrow-focused output of mainstream pornography: it's no wonder so much of it is such offensive, sexist shit.

"I've been called names all my life from the ultraconservative reactionary position," the church's rector, the Rev. J. Edwin Bacon Jr., said in an interview on Thursday, "but this is a level of demeaning that I've not seen before.

The magazine is not, of course, answerable for the reactionary position in which Hughes became more conspicuously at home following his appointment as poet laureate, and whose latter stages are depressingly recorded in Jonathan Bate's recent biography.

If this can put him in a strangely reactionary position at times, it also signals his fidelity to the lives of the New South Wales farming people and other workers among whom he grew up and among whom he continues to belong.

The enthusiasm of Ukip supporters for her candidacy, her reactionary position on gay marriage (call it something else), her suggestion that "what we need is a great deal of fiscal stimulus" (paid for how?), the peculiar march on parliament by a gang of her followers: there is something of the pyramid scheme about it all, an air of unreality.

In his snide and occasionally incisive book, he insists that fighting over race and gender is not an outgrowth of leftist egalitarianism but an alternative to it, a kind of progressives' consolation prize, "at best a distraction and at worst an essentially reactionary position".

Last, there are what I term the appropriations of, and accommodations with, reactionary positions.

By 1989, the cause of the left had expired, and in its place was to be found certain "boutique movements" and post-leftist accommodations with conventionally liberal and reactionary positions.

"My primary motivation in writing [Culture and Society] was oppositional," he explained, "to counter the appropriation of a long line of thinking about culture to what were by now decisively reactionary positions … It allowed me to refute the increasing contemporary use of the concept of culture against democracy, socialism, the working class or popular education, in terms of the tradition itself".

The split between revolutionary and reactionary positions characteristic of the period is epitomised by the relationship between Frenesi Gates, a radical film-maker and member of a student collective with anarchist tendencies, and Federal Prosecutor Brock Vond, a right-wing monomaniac with a taste for sexual power games.

But if they find the comparison so offensive, then they need abandon their reactionary positions and push their profession forward.