| 单词 | obscurantist |
| 例句 | Trump and the “obscurantist elites” who enable him are nurturing an “Out-of-This-World” fantasy by unleashing an aggressive despoliation of the earth that ultimately rejects the world they claim to inhabit. Why Fighting Fake News With the Facts Might Not Be Enough 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z When I first read Tate, I had cycled through a few of the more obvious approaches to cultural criticism, from the twisty and gonzo to the arch and obscurantist. The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Some are written in the now rather old-fashioned obscurantist style of academia a quarter century ago; others are incisive, helpful and illuminating. Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Liberals, on the other hand, regarded Mr. Glazunov as an obscurantist, xenophobe and anti-Semite, in thrall to the darkest forces in Russian history. Ilya Glazunov, Painter Entranced by Russia’s Past, Dies at 87 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z How could obscurantist religious atavism be mobilising millions in a country that, under the shah, had become more modern, more western and, it seemed, more secular? Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-25T07:01:00Z In fact, Frank writes, the populists were not reactionaries, protectionists, obscurantists, xenophobes or racists. The Fight Over the Future of the Democratic Party 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z The course instructor, Daniel Gabriel, a young poet, found her student verse, as he told Spiegelman, “overwritten, obscurantist and difficult.” Review | The MacArthur ‘genius’ poet who got her first break at 58 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Even his most devoted followers sometimes wonder whether his obscurantist tweets are serious or are made in jest. Elon Musk says he would ‘reverse the permanent ban’ of Donald Trump on Twitter. 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The Taliban is unlikely to veer too far from its obscurantist ideology, and expecting its transformation is unrealistic — whether carrots or sticks are deployed. Perspective | Sanctions on the Taliban will hurt Afghan citizens. Here’s how to fix that. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z It was not accidental that Serebrennikov came to face criminal charges at a time when Russia’s ruling ideology had turned inward and conservative, at times veering towards the outright retrograde and obscurantist. ‘They will destroy you’: in Putin’s Russia, how far can an artist go? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Silver suggests the real reason the majors did not want to do a deal with Napster was because doing so would blow a hole in their obscurantist accounting policies. Oversharing: how Napster nearly killed the music industry 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Gell-Mann noted that "the last refuge of the obscurantists and mystifiers is self-awareness, consciousness." From My Archives: Quark Inventor Murray Gell-Mann Doubts Science Will Discover "Something Else" 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z The president also meets most of the criteria of Orwell’s 1944 definition of fascism: “Something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class… almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘fascist’.” Nothing but the truth: the legacy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Mazouz, who studies discrimination and naturalization, said that such an approach confirmed an “anchored stereotype that Arabic is the language of fanatics and obscurantists.” France Debates Where to Teach Arabic: Public School or Local Mosque? 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z The conventional understanding has been that Breitbart editors shared that underlying bigotry but were clever enough to shroud their intentions in the obscurantist veneer of tweedy-sounding gibberish about Andrew Jackson. Down the Breitbart Hole 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Celebrated auteur and obscurantist David Lynch isn’t given to explaining himself with words. Review: If You Love David Lynch You Have to Play 'Virginia' 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z In this traditional rendering, Columbus is an enlightened scientific figure, a pre-Galileo surrounded by obscurantists determined to scuttle his plans. Five myths about Christopher Columbus 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The same way of thinking led the socialist Guy Mollet to reject all manifestations of Algerian nationalism as reactionary and “obscurantist”. From Left Bank to left behind: where have the great French thinkers gone? 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z More than any obscurantist of his generation, he exploited globalization—satellite communication, jet travel across open borders, and new media. If Al-Qaeda Is Myspace, ISIS Is Facebook 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z How ironic that a mystery novel proves a device to dispel some of the Fed’s obscurantist mystery. Signs Of The Fed's Era Of Secrecy Coming To An End 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The hedge fund world delights in obscurantist speech that makes hot-shot traders look like cool-headed academics: a "pure" return is called "alpha," and risk and volatility called "beta." Occupy hedge funds: when private investment funds and the public collide 2013-05-16T14:23:22Z Some of the discourses seemed to me obscurantist, some profound, and some surprising. The magic of India's Kumbh Mela 2013-01-11T04:30:24Z The only celestial messenger who has discussed this matter with mankind was something of an obscurantist. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z Mancini You are an enemy of enlightenment, you are an obscurantist, Briquet. He Who Gets Slapped A Play in Four Acts 2011-11-11T03:00:27.467Z Because Clavius was politely skeptical of Galileo’s arguments in favor of a sun-centered universe, he is usually dismissed as a close-minded holdover of the obscurantist Aristotelian philosophical tradition against which Galileo, Descartes and Kepler struggled. A Long Forgotten Father of the Scientific Revolution 2011-11-02T15:11:35Z Puritanism might be narrow and bibliolatrous, but it was not obscurantist nor the enemy of science. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z He was not by temperament an obscurantist, and he began by being something of a political idealist. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z The main enemies of the ultra-Kaiserism were the Catholic Church and Socialism—Socialism gradually drawing within its circle those men who, under the name of Social Democrats, believed that the Hohenzollern rule meant obscurantist autocracy. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z It is not surprising that Francis was denounced by Liberals throughout Europe as a tyrant and an obscurantist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." 2011-05-27T02:00:16.463Z Personally I know just about as many young fools and obscurantists and militarists as elderly ones. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z To-day the leading organ of Conservative opinion in this country can only expound a sort of political demonology, borrowed partly from the obscurantists of Bourbon Clericalism and partly from the fanatics of Hohenzollern Anti-Semitism. The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs or, The truth about the forged protocols of the elders of Zion 2011-04-01T02:00:43.730Z In common with all the learned men of his age, he wished to see the power of the clergy broken, as that of an obscurantist army arrayed against light. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Beyond the Alps it was otherwise; among the Teutonic nations at least the revolt against the scholastic philosophy, the rout of the obscurantists, the eager pursuit of Hellenic culture, had a religious aspect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Morris's dismissal of the notion that the west went ahead because it was rational and dynamic while China was obscurantist and conservative gets him into trouble. Why the West Rules ? For Now by Ian Morris ? review 2011-01-30T00:05:08Z It's an updated version of what Orwell feared: a dogma-driven, obscurantist attack upon reason. Climategate burned by reality 2010-07-08T01:01:00Z "The sun sets just behind your lighthouse, which is a very bad simile for anything so obscurantist as the Roman Church," said Maurice. Sinister Street, vol. 2 At first sight it appears to be a very high-handed and obscurantist procedure, little in keeping with the ingenuous simplicity of the Franciscan spirit. Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order Their views were due to a reaction against three main tendencies in contemporary English thought: the sacerdotalism of Laud and his followers, the obscurantist sectaries and, most important of all, the doctrines of Hobbes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" On principle they held denominational endowment of education to be retrograde and obscurantist. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) General propositions are dangerous, yet it seems safe to observe that great men have seldom been obscurantists or persecutors. Studies in Contemporary Biography How long is this nation going to be hoodwinked by an infinitesimal minority of reactionary dons and obscurantist parsons, determined to force a smattering of Greek down the throats of a reluctant youth? German Problems and Personalities Obscurantist he is, and obscurantist he will remain: p. 69he is our great impediment to serious study—study, that is, of anything except so-called classical texts. The Casual Ward academic and other oddments The civilisation of to-day, compared with that which existed before Secular Science began her great battle with a tyrannous and obscurantist Church, is as a summer morn to a star-lit winter night. Arrows of Freethought Reuchlin's good offices to the Jews—his defense of them against the attacks of obscurantists—are a matter of general knowledge. Jewish Literature and Other Essays It is the reply of the obscurantist, and it is very surprising that Maimonides the rationalist should so far have forgotten his own ideal of reason and enlightenment. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy He might also tell me that I am arguing for free will in an obscurantist fashion by admitting at the outset that in strict logic I can find no place for it. The New Theology "Reason" and "enlightenment" were his watchwords; opposition to his wise measures he regarded as obscurantist and unreasonable, and unreason, if it proved stubborn, as a vice to be corrected with whips. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" But with Pascal we get clean away from the poison-trail of the obscurantist. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The obscurantist and opponent of free thought has shown signs of hope that the German’s reputation for awfulness may turn us from his evil companionship into the restful paths of British piety. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship His opponents were regarded as obscurantists, who, rather than the object of their attack, were endangering Judaism. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy This is why venerable propositions which seem obscurantist to us originally possessed vital significance to their framers; the ethical and emotional content were greater than the form of statement, as they always must be. The New Theology It left us a Christendom, half of which is obscurantist and half scientific; half is ruled by the Jesuits and half is split up into wrangling sects. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Careless and nonchalant, he "travelled the open road," and gave all obscurantists and oppressors to ten million cart-loads of horned devils! Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations But it makes all the difference which end you start from, the facts or the theory: whether your method is à posteriori or à priori; inductive or deductive; scientific or obscurantist. Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 By the year 1900 the Oriental peoples were no longer mere fanatical obscurantists neither knowing nor caring to know anything outside the closed circle of their ossified, decadent civilizations. The New World of Islam With these learned obscurantists Dr. Napheys had no patience, and naturally found but slight favor. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother But it is impossible in this obscurantist fashion to check the free inquiry of the human intellect. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 Stagnation, not change, is Christianity's most deadly enemy, for this is a progressive world, and in a progressive world no doom is more certain than that which awaits whatever is belated, obscurantist and reactionary. Christianity and Progress "Behold," cried the Voice, vibrating vehemently, "you have allowed yourself to be diverted by the sinister councils of antiquated obscurantists from implicit faith in my programmes and prescriptions!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893 He had a liking for all forthright and pugnacious men, and a contempt for lawyers, schoolmasters and all other such obscurantists. Damn! A Book of Calumny Michelet employed his almost matchless rhetoric not only to exalt the Reformers to the highest pinnacle of greatness, but to blacken the character of their adversaries, the obscurantists, the Jesuits, Catherine de' Medici. The Age of the Reformation The papacy has not- 36 - always been reactionary and obscurantist; when it overthrew the Cathari, for example, its victory was that of reason and good sense. Life of St. Francis of Assisi Yes—the House of Ganz-Wurst certainly seems at the present moment particularly to attract the attentions of these obscurantists in politics. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties It was an era when the Imperial spirit was niggardly, obscurantist. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. But superstition dies hard; and there are persons who, though confronted with the clearest evidences of science, still refuse to abandon their old obscurantist ideas. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Religion in human life is not a subject apart, nor is it necessary to regard all theological revolts as obscurantist. The Age of the Reformation Yet the University, as a whole, stood slightly aloof from him, and before long in certain obscurantist circles cautious hints of latitudinarianism were murmured against him. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment Canon Barnes, who disowns the name of modernist, but who is the very opposite of an obscurantist in his evangelicalism, is careful to insist upon a rational loyalty to Christ. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality It was a fatalist view of life, a dim and obscurantist groping after truth induced by the overpowering nature of present difficulties. The Wings of the Morning Without it religion becomes bigoted, faith obscurantist, and ceremony superstitious. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria But obscurantist as were the ideas and the policy of the Holy Alliance, the political system it established was an enormous improvement upon that of the eighteenth century. The Promise of American Life They are spoken of as “the stupid party,” as “obscurantist,” and so forth, with the usual amenity of theological controversy. In the Wrong Paradise But I should like here to enter a protest against the assumption . . . that the obscurantist, having fenced himself in behind his wall of prejudices, enjoys an uninterrupted and ignoble peace. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality It was more of a shock to realise that this most obscurantist of all types of obscurantism is still sometimes regarded as a sort of liberalism. The New Jerusalem Whether the determination to taboo research into them, and to denounce their examination as of perilous moral consequence, is scientific, or is obscurantist, every one may decide for himself. Cock Lane and Common-Sense It must be remembered that Piedmont was then lamentably backward; a long obscurantist régime, succeeded by war and havoc, had left her destitute of all the accessories of modern life. Cavour The Inquisition proceeded more fairly than these scientific obscurantists. The Making of Religion Possibly many people are ready to cry out upon me as an obscurantist for venturing to doubt a genial confidence in all literature simply as such. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice I am not going to appeal, sir, for that judgment in the promoters' favour which I confidently claim, on any bigoted or obscurantist lines. The Case of Richard Meynell You working men complain of the clergy for being bigoted and obscurantist, and hating the cause of the people. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography These, in turn, were goaded into bitterness and denounced their opponents as pig-headed obscurantists. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform The book excited the anger of the obscurantists, and, in their wrath, they persecuted all who read the works of Mapu. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) I recognise, moreover, that our ineffable and Athenian—oh, how infinitely Athenian—Republic is capable of honouring, in the person of that obscurantist old she-Capet, the first of our chiefs of police. Swann's Way To this day it blocks, with an undergrowth of obscurantist controversies, the way to a straightforward account of the problem of trade cycles. Supply and Demand But all these grandiose conceptions belong to the obscurantist view of human life, which is popular with all who hate, in Matthew Arnold's phrase, "to think clear and see straight." Without Prejudice He may be printing "Gold and the Proletariate," or he may be printing obscurantist and retrogressive treatises by the enemies of humanity. Philistia He threw himself into the scrimmage, adding the weight of his authority to the efforts of those who were carrying on the combat with the obscurantists. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) At the death of Christian VI, in 1746, the obscurantist character of the court immediately changed. Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus The obscurantists take very good care to spread themselves. Denzil Quarrier Now I am not inclined to debate Henry the Eighth's character, or any other subject, as between Mr. Froude and an author of the obscurantist or pseudo-conservative school. Froude's History of England On the "men with aspirations," who had longed in vain for more light and more public activity under the obscurantist, repressive regime of the preceding reign, it had an intoxicating effect. Russia |
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