The media rarely uses more neutral terms such as "revivalist" or "progressives" (Hassan 2). From Wordnik.com. [When western people affection by the Islam .] Reference
Thus they are unable to reconcile their perception of my work as "revivalist" with my lack of ecstatic effusion for the protagonists and their work. From Wordnik.com. ['The Unhappy Medium': An Exchange] Reference
There are differences in the four books I reviewed, which is why I attempted to describe their contents separately before commenting upon the "revivalist" position in general. From Wordnik.com. [Is the US Declining?] Reference
It's not the revivalist funk of a forgotten decade. From Wordnik.com. [NOMO: The Sonic Maelstrom Of 'Ghost Rock'] Reference
For Tonkin had told her of a noted revivalist who was coming through. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
Sort of tent-revivalist time: Ernest Angely is from Ohio, of course. From Wordnik.com. [CNN: McCain Picks Sarah Palin As Veep] Reference
Page 41 had responded to this appeal of a gifted southern revivalist. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Broadus Mitchell, August 14 and 15, 1977. Interview B-0024. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The revivalist preacher had come, and was indeed sweeping the land like. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
At present Vachel Lindsay keeps up the tradition of the poet-revivalist. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
The Mas-ya-Khans, or revivalist priests, are in charge of these services. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Persia] Reference
Marion is -- it's very evangelical and revivalist, the Baptists, etc., etc. From Wordnik.com. [Underboss: Sammy The Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia] Reference
A noted revivalist was filling a large tent twice a day; the father attended. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
He resembled, in some respects, the social workers and revivalist preachers of to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
In fact, the frenzy of the poet and of the revivalist have sometimes been felt as akin. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Relationships between revivalist religionists and establishment churchmen were never good. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris] Reference
As we talked, Romney launched into his vaguely revivalist, somehow off-kilter victory speech. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Treul: Primary Results Elicit Mixed Reactions From Michigan Young Republicans] Reference
The same strain of revivalist, irrational Methodism flows through both their spiritual veins. From Wordnik.com. [Blacks, Gays and the Myth of the Saintly Oppressed] Reference
Page 50 conference I was attending and it was in the period when Billy Sunday was a revivalist. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, August 4, 1974. Interview G-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
I turned about, and saw a woman who was examining the reverend revivalist with much satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
So, in my school work, I feel that I must be a revivalist or my pupils will sag back, just as I do. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
But recently some "pure" revivalist Rajputs are revising history by connecting Sheikh to Sanskrit lineage. From Wordnik.com. [The Jodhaa Akbar controversy distorts the glorious legacy of Rajput-Mughal syncretic culture,] Reference
But last Saturday, you sounded more like an evangelist or revivalist on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Wallis: An Open Letter to Glenn Beck] Reference
Like other revivalist figures, Pa-bong-ka presented his teachings as embodying the orthodoxy of his tradition. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuk-den affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I)] Reference
The easy rhythms, catchy tunes, and subjective joy of such music became an important part of revivalist services. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris] Reference
The New York Times obituary described her work as an important cornerstone in the current Yiddish revivalist movement. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Rubin.] Reference
In the twentieth century Methodism has tended to encourage LIBERAL THEOLOGY and has moved away from its revivalist roots. From Wordnik.com. [Concise Dictionary of Religion] Reference
They didn't like Whig preachers telling them to teetotal; they had a more emotional, tent-show revivalist style of faith. From Wordnik.com. [Will Perot Wax The Democrats?] Reference
A subtle and very funny Swedish novel explores the consequences when a revivalist preacher converts to evangelical atheism. From Wordnik.com. [Faith and doubt in Lapland] Reference
Aziz was an enthusiastic member of an evangelical, Islamic revivalist movement called Tablighi Jamaat ( "Conveying Group"). From Wordnik.com. [Derek Flood: From South to South: Refugees as Migrants: The Rohingya in Pakistan] Reference
The elder in charge was the powerful preacher, the successful revivalist, and the eminently pious man, Rev. Shadrack Stewart. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
But the revivalist had suddenly got a brilliant idea — he had taken her downstream away from the rest and ducked her there. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
Cross asked me how I knew so many hymns, and the negro-revivalist variety, I answered that I once near joined the Salvation Army. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
He abandoned a legal career to become a PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER and revivalist preacher following a profound CONVERSION experience. From Wordnik.com. [Concise Dictionary of Religion] Reference
In the far north there are problems also, among the Nubians, the ancient Nubian civilization, which is having a revivalist movement. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2004] Reference
The prevailing licence and the prevailing moral consciousness were elements especially adapted to the work of the religious revivalist. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
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