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But he was not an obscurantist.

Consequently, in the liberal circles he was always denounced as an obscurantist, pedant, and an enemy of progress.

The Victoria and Albert Museum's decision is ridiculous and obscurantist'.

While of indisputable historical importance, Schelling has often been dismissed as obscurantist or un-methodical.

So unashamedly political, unpatronising, funny, and obscurantist.

Jornist, Eclipsist and Obscurantist.

Higgins had asked the Taoiseach: "Is assassination only justified if the target is a reactionary, anti-democratic, anti-human rights obscurantist like bin Laden?"

The principal of his college, a mild man, an economic historian, who had never been anything but generous and accommodating to his Irish guest, he described as the 'chief obscurantist'.

However, philosophers such as Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek in turn criticized Marx and Marxist philosophy as obscurantist.

The sectarians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were essentially obscurantists, and they guarded an obscurantist legend that the Schoolman was an obscurantist.

A propaganda pamphlet, "The Jesuit: The Obscurantist without a Homeland" by Hubert Hermanns, warned against the Jesuits' "dark power" and "mysterious intentions".

Ruhani also made Peykar "the first left-wing organization to personally criticize Khomeini", when he called Khomeini a "mediaeval obscurantist" and his regime "reactionary" and "fascistic."

Even so, given a choice between honest-to-goodness fundamentalism on the one hand, and the obscurantist, disingenuous doublethink of the Roman Catholic Church on the other, I know which I prefer.

I seriously doubt that given the obscurantist, patriarchal background that families who force people into marriages come from (particularly the South Asian dowry system), that women are not going to be the main targets.

In the new Irish state that got itself established in the 1920's, the dominant ideology was "nationalist" or "republican," as ranged along a spectrum that moved from the simple-minded through the perfunctory to the obscurantist.

One was that, as Skabichevsky noted, Pisemsky had never repudiated his 'troglodyte' mindset of a 'provincial obscurantist'; exotic in the early 1850s, it became scandalous at the end of the decade.

Darrow emerged from the trial as the hero of clear rational thought, and the elderly Bryan was discredited as bumbling, incompetent, and obscurantist; he died a few days after the trial, as a result of his exertions.

The obscurantist can be personally a scientist, a philosopher, a truly faithful person, a naturalist, a mischievous student, or just agnostic, but, as one member of the society, believes that religion among the populace serves the aim of social control.

Akroyd was shocked by her discussions with Sen and felt that Sen, the rhetorician of women's education in England was a typical Hindu obscurantist back home in India, trying to keep knowledge from the minds of women.

Much of the book is written as if Mr. Tiger could afford to ignore the heavy burden of metaphysical assumption that accompanies the concept of "nature" as a norm for judging human behavior, and its often-demonstrated affinities with obscurantist, reactionary policies.

It is a matter of nuance, perhaps, but in the popular media, the misreading and under-representation of Osama's direct knowledge and experience of the West has contributed, since 9/11, to a sense that he is an obscurantist in a faraway cave, a backward-looking madman.

Recent books by such authors as Camille Paglia, Dinesh D'Souza, Roger Kimball and David Lehman have portrayed theory as the obscurantist, jargon-filled, self-indulgent and sometimes downright meaningless noodlings of the superannuated '60s radicals that allegedly dominate the academy.

It also called for serious consideration to be given to the banning of its use as an obscurant.

Provide the Army with the combat multipliers of smoke, obscurant, and flame capabilities."

Aerosol of burning phosphorus particles is an effective obscurant against thermal imaging systems.

These devices are designed to produce very large quantities of small particulate matter which acts as an obscurant in battlefield environments.

Devon Rumrill - synth on "Chimera Obscurant"

Linda Amari - cello on "Chimera Obscurant" and "Poor Celine"

During military combat operations in Fallujah, Iraq, white phosphorus munitions were used by United States military forces as an incendiary weapon and as an obscurant.

The use of white phosphorus as an obscurant is legal, as well as use as an incendiary weapon against military targets that are not in close proximity to civilians or civilian property.

The words, all but illegible in their projected form, are lifted from a magazine art review, and give a mortifying sense of the obscurant, not to say windy language critics routinely indulge in (see above.)

The naval smoke screen is often said to have been proposed by Sir Thomas Cochrane in 1812, although Sir Cochrane's proposal was as much an asphyxiant as an obscurant.

With a core instrumentation of drums, bass, and piano, other noteworthy elements include string and horn arrangements arranged by Adam Theis, the electronic glitches of "Satre Ringo", and the 12-minute, 1089-word epic "Chimera Obscurant."

Upon detection of a launch, or a laser range finder illumination, the system mostly likely triggers a salvo of Infrared Smoke grenades launched from this vehicle and the presidential limo to provide both a visual smoke screen in the kill zone and to also act as an obscurant for IR and radar guided attacks.

If anything, the vibrator was more obscurant than Painted Stick.

Large area multispectral obscurant smoke screening is used to cover the tracks of troops and artillery.

The obscurant favors restricting knowledge (publication, extension, dissemination) among the populace, for the "greater good" of the nation and the City-State.

To negate this universal vision and make God a tribal deity is to use religion as a divisive and obscurant force, rather than a uniting and illuminating influence in life, which its Latin root re-ligare (reunite) literally means.

According to one author, Progressive Adventism "regrets the anti-intellectual, authoritarian and obscurant tendencies that characterize a significant segment of traditional, historic Adventism, along with the attempts at creating a creed out of the "27 Fundamental Doctrines.""