Sentence examples for reactionary with from inspiring English sources

"I promise you we're not trying to be vulgar or reactionary with any of these covers — they just keep gravitating that way," he said.

Those for leaving are boringly predictable and mostly reactionary (with a few on the left who seem to think that moving backwards and out is moving forwards); reason enough to vote to stay in!

Brecht's women are ciphers, and their virtues off-the-peg: they may be good-hearted; they are sometimes shrewd (clever would be pushing it), but they are fundamentally reactionary, with their heads full of astrological charts or wedding dresses.

Here, our man is revealed as a reactionary with a heart – a weakness that, in his dealings with the stiletto-wielding diva and her revolutionary friends, Angelotti and the painter Cavaradossi, will ultimately prove to be his undoing.

While club comedy had drink minimums and was confrontational and crowd-focused (many of those in the alternative scene also considered it homophobic, racist and reactionary, with good reason), the alternative scene prided itself on being autobiographical, quirky and tied much more closely to sketch comedy and character work.

"Sometimes when I'm being a little reactionary with my pump, after I eat a bunch I'll take an amount of insulin and get low, then I'll eat something and get high, and then I can't get it under control," Herzog says.

Far from trying to bring Daily Mail-reading reactionaries with him he has attempted to appease them.

Aside from that, however, there were no images of anti-fascist protesters mowing down reactionaries with their cars.

Conservative Republicans, meanwhile, seem to think that one size yarmulke fits all -- that all Orthodox Jews, Mr. Lieberman included, can be patronizingly stereotyped as cultural reactionaries with views closer to Jerry Falwell's than Mr. Gore's.

Don't waste time with reactionaries; work with active change agents, and the vast middle ground of open people".

Hundreds of citizens were expelled during the communist oppression of the 1950s, with the aim of replacing "reactionary" people with the proletarian class.