But over the years, I just want to be sure that we don't get engaged in what I call revisionist history. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2009] Reference
The word revisionist was shortened to xiu in Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1] Reference
You can call it revisionist history and no one can argue that it gives only one viewpoint. From Wordnik.com. [A Progressive on the Prairie » R.I.P. Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 » Print] Reference
I like the logic of this bold experiment in revisionist history from HRC flack Howard Wolfson. From Wordnik.com. [Also? Sexism - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
There were few facts to back up Brown's testimony, so consequently, he engaged in revisionist history. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricane Katrina] Reference
Anybody who uses terms like “intelligence failure” is ignoring these facts and engaging in revisionist history. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Low Bar] Reference
Gephardt maintains that Democratic opponents of campaign-finance reform had engaged in revisionist, or at least selective, history. From Wordnik.com. [Making Sense of McCain-Feingold and Campaign-Finance Reform] Reference
A worldwide polarization happened and a new camp, which was called a revisionist camp, emerged. From Wordnik.com. [A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist)] Reference
Is he talking about the so-called revisionist historians who are denounced by their colleagues?. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday, December 31, 2006] Reference
Lange had an indirect impact on what was later known as the revisionist debate within socialism. From Wordnik.com. [Friedrich Albert Lange] Reference
When history doesn’t look favorably on your track record, the best thing to do is engage in revisionist history. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Condi Throws Stones From Her Glass House] Reference
Why are the gNOpig clowns engaging in revisionist History, as if absolutely all ills of the nation were President Obama’s fault?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’] Reference
His perspective undergoes what some historians might call a revisionist shift when he discovers that his girlfriend is on the plane. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Levant] Reference
These would more appropriately be called revisionist novels if the term had not been corrupted, as I have written elsewhere, by neo-Nazis who deny the Holocaust. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
In Russia and Poland the problem of integration into society hardly arose; many of those labelled revisionist were just as committed to revolution as their detractors. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
“They love to engage in revisionist history.”. From Wordnik.com. [mjh's blog — 2009 — November] Reference
What kind of revisionist history is this? datingjesus. From Wordnik.com. [Look! Up in the air! It’s MOSES! « Dating Jesus] Reference
How do you feel my Giuliani-Clinton comments are "revisionist"?. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Giuliani is looking interesting] Reference
Falstaff is not an opera that encourages "revisionist" interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [Not to Worry, Opera Fans-Cooperstown's in Fine Shape] Reference
Pretending otherwise is the kind of revisionist whitewash I am mocking. From Wordnik.com. [Save Kiana Firouz] Reference
The textbook history is neutral; the "revisionist" history is dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
This is the kind of revisionist history which would make David Irving proud. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-05-01] Reference
Mr. Piper is a Holocaust "revisionist" and JFK assassination conspiracy theorist. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
But in the late 1960's, a school of "revisionist" historians arose, who argued that. From Wordnik.com. [The Atomic Bombings, With Reference to American Historical Scholarship Regarding Them Since August 9, 1945] Reference
Mr. Krentz, by contrast, is a premier military historian of the "revisionist" school. From Wordnik.com. [A Battle of Long-Running Interest] Reference
Barak responded angrily, challenging our "revisionist" narrative of the Camp David summit. From Wordnik.com. [How Not to Make Peace in the Middle East] Reference
The article by Frederick Crews reviewing "revisionist" books about Freud is an interesting one. From Wordnik.com. [The Unknown Freud: An Exchange] Reference
The same constitution that conservatives consider perfect, and worthy of protection from "revisionist" judges. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Handler: Have You No Decency, Sir? At Long Last, Have You No Sense of Decency?] Reference
I cringed, though, when I read the word "revisionist" at the beginning of the article ( "The Bible's Lost Stories"). From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Critics may call it revisionist history; the way I see it, this reorganization of the league’s best is long overdue. From Wordnik.com. [Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010-2011] Reference
Rudy Rucker, taking shelter from punishing heat, ponders the motives behind Michael Crichton's climate change "revisionist" novel. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Referring to the "Durban Declaration", signed by 5000 scientists refuting what they regard as "revisionist" theories on the cause of. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Instead, Serwer engages in the kind of revisionist history the media so often resorts to when covering the ups and downs of Wall Street titans. From Wordnik.com. [Yvette Kantrow: The New York Times Gets it Right, Fortune Stumbles: Lehman CEO Dick Fuld: We Hardly Knew You] Reference
The History Channel premiered a "revisionist" version of American history, "The People Speak," Sunday evening that has created a stir here and there. From Wordnik.com. ["The People Speak"] Reference
However, these statistics and featured events are culled from a myriad number of sources, all written long before religious "revisionist" theories were contemplated. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: 140 Million Dead? So What! Christianity's STILL A RELIGION OF PEACE!] Reference
DPP lawmakers slam 'revisionist' history curriculum. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
The historian Henry Kamen has spent a distinguished career presenting what he calls a "revisionist" history of early modern Spain. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
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