How To Use Luddite In A Sentence
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Those Luddites who once argued that we should protect jobs by resisting advances in labor-saving technology are rightly regarded as fools by today's peddlers of standard economic wisdom.
The High Cost of a Cheap Pound
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At the furthest extreme of the preservationist end of the spectrum is what used to be called the appropriate technology movement and now is sometimes called the neo-Luddite movement.
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Also it ultimately is unsatisfiable as the Luddites will always say the latest restrictions aren't enough to make the world perfect.
The Guardian on David Cameron
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‘I used to checker every pair by hand, but I bought a CNC,’ laments the reluctant Luddite.
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A visit to the parlor from the Marmion Plantation in Virginia located in the Met's Gallery 720, however, might provide a bit of encouraging perspective; some of the descendants of the slaves who likely tended the parlor's guests may have been lured into subprime mortgages while their White counterparts were given better deals, but you'd have to be dottier than a guy who wants to arrest judges not to realize that we are all better off than we were during the "good old days" for which certain social luddites yearn.
Tanya M. Acker: Ditch the Xanax: Why the Metropolitan Museum Is a Better Cure for American Grumpiness
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Castle in Sybil, for example, becomes a vast Luddite uprising in
_The Difference Engine_ in the Romantics Classroom
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It's true that a lot of his arguments can seem like the ravings of a Luddite: his accusation, for instance, that modern lawyers and doctors make people more irresponsible and greedy.
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I'm a luddite in comparison with some of the people I follow on Twitter, but a nerd in comparison with many people.
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The gridder cults cover a wide political spectrum from environmental lunatics to anti-abortion assassins to right wing luddites determined to gut the liberal robot equality laws.
Art & Me
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These neo-Luddites may represent the most extreme reaction to technostress, but if we're smart about it, they remind us to try to keep in balance the demands of the future with the need for some degree of stability and familiarity.
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We are idealists, anarchists, guerrilla tacticians, pranksters, neo-Luddites, poets, philosophers and punks.
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The majority have a built-in Luddite mentality, resistant to change.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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I suspected that deep down he was a Luddite who secretly preferred old-fashioned conventional fences.
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Far from being atavistic, anti-progressive protectionists, Luddites were logical, rational people who saw financial ruin staring down the barrel at them.
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She's no nostalgia merchant for the musical Luddites, and it's not just the eternal verities of soul music that Jones traffics in.
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Now I'm no Luddite, but the scene did unnerve me somewhat as I wondered if people were doing speakers justice by rapidly keyboarding what they were saying and then zapping it out to the blogosphere.
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However, here in North Yorkshire do we apply the Luddite mentality and return to the pitchfork and scythe?
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It is worth remembering that the original Luddites of the early 19th century were not uneducated blockheads who didn't understand machines.
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When asked about the 92% that are vehemently opposed to the proposition, she declares them all to be trouble makers, Luddites, townies, misty eyed liberals - or suffering from Mad Cow disease.
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If such technology manages to spread beyond the limits of the experiment and grow in availability it will surely provoke no end of debate between the technophiles and luddites of the arts community.
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The Luddite in me has been stirred from his distant slumbers by this recent death, too.
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If you are among the protesters whom the Wall Street Journal unaffectionately calls ‘Luddite whackos,’ you may take a little credit for that.
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He has a cranky Luddite streak, and he may be amplifying it for comic effect.
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Lest everyone think me a Luddite, I ordered my first Mac in January 1984.
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The majority have a built-in Luddite mentality; they are resistant to change.
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There are an awful lot of Luddites out there with computer dyslexia, including Yours Truly.
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If, in reviews, Paul Morgan comes off as a showboater and Jim Javor seems like a modest Luddite, then Randy Bott, who has since fallen out of the top 25, is sui generis.
NYT > Home Page
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Cobbett extolled the Radicalism of Nottingham; Byron sang the praises of the Luddites.
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Even the most arrhythmic Luddite has to cheer up when suddenly confronted with the Dr Who theme.
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Not surprising, after all; he'd designed the New Luddites to have a lot of middle-of-the-road appeal.
T2©: RISING STORM
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A little pride crept in as I admired my stook, my connection to the past, smug as an urban Luddite can be.
Archive 2009-03-01
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And go ahead, laugh all you want at the humble candle-perhaps loved only by luddites and brownout victims-but "candlepower" is still the unit of choice for many measures of brightness.
Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
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His Luddite attitudes were and are not very consequential in most Indian discussions because the polity is more concerned today with rent-seeking than with issues arising from the impact of Machinery.
Foreign Aid and Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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She is no Luddite; like many artists and most designers, she's a bona fide Apple Mac fetishist.
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Iain S Bruce mounts a spirited defence of the internet against the nouveau Luddites.
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But I suppose I am a luddite in that I oppose the idea of commodification, or rather that people, experience and emotion can have a residual commodity value.
Bigots at badminton and difficulties going to paradise
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At very least, however, the Luddites presented the government with a problem of order of a magnitude hardly reached since.
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Its charm lies not in whizzy new technology – or, as a confirmed luddite, I'd have given up ages ago – but in the constant churn of ideas, jokes, gossip, and discoveries.
Twitter looks chaotic: but don't be afraid
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He is a Luddite, who stubbornly clings to the past.
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It wasn't just me who got in contact after the programme - Brabazon says she received over 600 supportive emails the following week from people who don't comment online for fear of being 'trolled' or labelled 'luddites', but were appreciative of her stance.
News from Journalism.co.uk
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She picks out the Luddite unrest to make it seem that the danger of working-class crowds actually engendered the need for middle-class female domestication.
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A breathless enthusiast for the wired world, he writes well enough to take happy Luddites such as me along with him.
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Unlike the tenor of the 1990s, just about any conversation touching on technology today involves more Luddite-tinged negativism than enthusiastic promise.
