How To Use Obscurantist In A Sentence
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When the psychologist attempts to employ statistical methods her encounters the usual obscurantist notion that you can prver anything with statistics.
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But he is no mystical obscurantist nor does he privilege spiritual intuition above demonstration; rather he argues for their complementarity since ˜demonstration does not conflict with inner disclosure.™
Mulla Sadra
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Benton: neither 'obscurantist' nor 'absolutist' are proper words
Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin
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When the psychologist attempts to employ statistical methods her encounters the usual obscurantist notion that you can prver anything with statistics.
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`Kintail's an obscurantist, he's a millenarian ," said Eileen, guffawing.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Cumulatively, however, the proliferation of obscurantist bunkum and the reaction against reason are a menace to civilisation.
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Levi was well-known for his impatience with long-winded, solipsistic or obscurantist prose.
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When the psychologist attempts to employ statistical methods her encounters the usual obscurantist notion that you can prver anything with statistics.
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In her book La tentation obscurantiste, the French journalist Caroline Fourest presents an interesting hypothesis regarding the advance of what we call leftwing culturalism.
Archive 2009-01-11
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`Kintail's an obscurantist, he's a millenarian," said Eileen, guffawing.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
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It got the stuffing kicked out of it through much of the 20th century and became a byword for mystical, obscurantist thinking, but in recent decades it has been rehabilitated somewhat.
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I think that a lot of poetry published today is obscurantist nonsense.
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Advocates of economic modernization, such as Abbot Matthew ‘the Poor,’ sometimes found Samuel's preoccupation with third-century hermits obscurantist.
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Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
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But in their rush to save Christianity, some evangelicals have been guilty of all sorts of strained, idiosyncratic or obscurantist tactics: massaging or distorting the data, manipulating the legal system, scaring their constituencies and strong-arming those of their own camp who raise questions.
Pete Enns: Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution And Evangelicals
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It seems to the philisophically-naive scientists that these philosophers are inventing a new problem in a desperate and obscurantist attempt to salvage a belief in human "dignity.
September 13th, 2009
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Sorel shared this disdain for patriotic and obscurantist bombast.
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It can not afford to leave the country and will "do everything possible" to ensure that the "obscurantist" Taliban-like forces do not regain control there and democracy prevails, even though it has no plans to send its troops there.
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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.
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
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And yes, as a monograph on anything such writing would be childish and obscurantist.
Matthew Yglesias » A People’s History of the United States
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Most of all, I despise his complete obliviousness to the fact that anyone who has spent much time wading through the pious, obscurantist, jargon-filled cant that now passes for ‘advanced’ thought in the humanities already knows that his advocates are an amalgamation of hopeless cutthroats, mumpish criticasters, and other incoherent subversive-types.
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This was not, I hasten to add, what Derrida himself believed, but unfortunately what was most often represented as "Derridean" was indeed this sort of anti-intellectual nonsense (its anti-intellectualism disguised by much obscurantist theory-ese), the result of which, finally, was the complete loss of credibility on the part of academic literary study and, unfortunately, the labeling of Derrida as the obscurantist-in-chief.
Philosophy and Literature
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Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution: I actually find Structure of Scientific Revolutions a bit obscurantist in some respects that encourages misreadings.
Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books
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Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
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With the above code, we can list the longest of the well-mixed transposals. antiparticles paternalistic conservatoire overreactions aristotelian retaliations obscurantist subtractions definability identifiably arthroscopes crapshooters colonialists oscillations enumerations mountaineers importunates permutations counterspies persecutions capillarity piratically animadverts maidservant calendering greenlandic grandnieces reascending coordinates decorations peripatetic precipitate crenelation intolerance arthroscope crapshooter peristaltic triplicates excitations intoxicates
Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
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Wieseltier often employs bafflingly obscurantist, elliptical, oneiric swirls of thought meant to wow his readers with his putative Kant-like gifts.
Matthew Yglesias » Wieseltier vs Sullivan
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I dealt with Sally Katzen professionally during the Clinton Administration, and I found her to be defensive, obscurantist, impatient, and dedicated towards reaching particular outcomes regardless of the facts.
Matthew Yglesias » Cass Sunstein to OIR
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But they are not users of the obscurantist gobbledygook employed by academics who, frankly, cannot really write.
Film Criticism Is Dying? Not Online
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First sternly prohibited by Frelimo from carrying on the "obscurantist" practices of traditional culture, and then driven by the war from their land and the hard-won histories of feminine community rooted in generations of shared agrarian routines, and then facing the formidable challenge of postwar recovery as structural adjustment and market reforms wreaked economic havoc in the countryside 7in these circumstances, the spheres of social life in which women could claim to exercise authority over the present, let alone the past, were few indeed.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
