Word: obscurantists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...firm of which he is a director; he for the second time (his first wife, whom he married in 1915, died in 1947), she for the first; in an Anglican ceremony in London's St. Barnabas Church (Kensington) held at 6:15 a.m. to avoid Fleet Street newsbeagles. Obscurantist Eliot on the gulf between May and December in Lines for an Old Man (Collected Poems...
...Billy Graham is a personable, modest and appealing young man who has wedded considerable dramatic and demagogic gifts with a rather obscurantist version of the Christian faith. His message is not completely irrelevant to the broader social issues of the day, but it approaches irrelevance...
...This is the general confusion that let Odysseus out of the giant's cave, and in the scramble, the real ethical problem- to what extent one should tell the committee, not about oneself, but about others-is obscured. The very term 'witch hunt' is obscurantist...
...statesman, "this symbol of European reaction," was joined on the menu by a symbol of British imperialism-Veal Steak a la Nelson^-and one of Hungary's famous feudal families-Beef Steak Esterhdzy.- There were other dishes whose names had no politically dyspeptic connotations, but which were simply obscurantist, e.g., Filet de Fogas Orly,†† Veau a la Bonne Femme...
...most students, as they sat in an open car heading west or a metropolitan office or a Paris cafe, the summer's quota of world news sounded as if it had been coded and the key thrown away. No historian with an obscurantist bent could have dreamed up three months of events that inspired more confusion among the populace than did the months of July, August, and September in 1949, the fourth year of cold war. The headlines asked many questions, which, treated calmly, would have been difficult to answer; dealt with emotionally, as most of the questions were, they...