Benton: neither 'obscurantist' nor 'absolutist' are proper words. From Wordnik.com. [Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin] Reference
Please do not consider it an obscurantist revolution. From Wordnik.com. [MEETS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS] Reference
This strikes me as abusive, obscurantist, and simple-minded. From Wordnik.com. [Sex in the Head] Reference
No, I'm afraid it is Bronowski who is the historical obscurantist. From Wordnik.com. [Natural and Supernatural] Reference
No more obscene headache-inducing obscurantist poetry slams for you. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn of the Dorks] Reference
The fanatical, obscurantist clerics of Egypt won against Hilmi Salim. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday, April 05, 2008] Reference
Our typical image of a reviewer is that of a stodgy, curmudgeony obscurantist. From Wordnik.com. [Ron Charles, book reviewer -- and hip as hell] Reference
Usually the words 'mediaeval' and 'obscurantist' are not far away when writing of them. From Wordnik.com. [Catholophobia ?] Reference
This comment about obscurantist tactics in ID is either disingenuous or just laughable. From Wordnik.com. [Why Do So Many Doctors Accept Evolution? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
So for the technical audience by all means use obscurantist technical jargon: do carry on!. From Wordnik.com. [Long blog posts.] Reference
Tahar chastises the obscurantist Muslims – but omits to say how immensely powerful they are. From Wordnik.com. [Islam for our time?] Reference
Perhaps b/c 0bama's "extensive media coverage" is mostly fawning, sycophantic, and obscurantist?. From Wordnik.com. [You Scare Me, Mr. Pritchett] Reference
There will be no Talibanization, which is obscurantist thoughts or way of life -- no Talibanization. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2006] Reference
I assure them that every American administration will protect the corrupt and obscurantist House of Saud. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday, September 28, 2004] Reference
It seems to me that the voting machine vendors are an excellent example of both definitions of obscurantist. From Wordnik.com. ['Daily Voting News' For August 08, 2008] Reference
Moving on to Rorty, in addition to being very much a man of the left,he is an obscurantist in philosophy as well. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Science and the Moral Order - The Austrian Economists] Reference
In the statement that obscurantist Maronite Patriarch Sfayr released, he avoided mentioning the world Israel or Israeli. From Wordnik.com. [Monday, July 31, 2006] Reference
That's a big load for any movie to carry, even one as smart as Inception, especially one as seemingly obscurantist as Inception. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Does Inception Salvage the Summer Movie Season?] Reference
The same "leaders" are in bed with the most loathsome racists in the US, obscurantist fundamentalists and blood-stained neo-cons. From Wordnik.com. [Leader of the Israeli Peace Bloc Endorses Obama] Reference
And, needless to say, even Wallace must know that he of all writers really can't get away with criticizing obscurantist language. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry Canavan] Reference
He was truly an obscurantist, anti-Semite, reactionary, traditionalist, misogynist, and a man living in the past--the medieval past. From Wordnik.com. [Monday, August 04, 2008] Reference
For the technical audience, of course, obscurantist technical jargon can be a way to pack a great deal of content into small packages. From Wordnik.com. [Long blog posts.] Reference
Voltaire could only shake obscurantist institutions by appealing to man's love of light, and the love of light, once stirred, leads far. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
The choice is now between a repressive regime based on a bizarre and obscurantist ideology and the prospect of real change and democratization. From Wordnik.com. [Iran's Clarifying Election] Reference
It sounds heretical or obscurantist in this age of scientific explanation to ascribe much to chance, to chance con - tacts, and personal predilections. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The most obscurantist undercurrents would have been represented here, the most retrograde and most negative undercurrents would have been represented here. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEECH, RESOLUTION CLOSE EDUCATION CONGRE] Reference
As a result, the only place Iranian dissidents could find a home was in mosques and religious schools, many of which were controlled by obscurantist clerics. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons From The Philippines Insurrection And Our Overthrow Of Mossadegh, Part II.] Reference
The whole sad story really begins with the "secret language" tactic evident in the choice of an obscurantist word like "nosocomial" to describe these infections. From Wordnik.com. [Doctors Are Spreading Infections That Kill Patients] Reference
Any Muslim who will not concede that there is a death-cult forming in the Muslim world, is either part of that cult, or an obscurantist -- not a religious moderate. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Harris: Who Are the Moderate Muslims?] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference
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