| Levi was well-known for his impatience with long-winded, solipsistic or obscurantist prose. |
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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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| But that battle was quickly won, and most were quietly glad to see the obscurantist Taliban defeated. |
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| Nor is this report free of concessions to certain obscurantist ideas, whether religious or otherwise. |
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| Sorel shared this disdain for patriotic and obscurantist bombast. |
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| All can seem part of a long, ongoing conflict between the values of the Enlightenment and obscurantist barbarism. |
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| What does my colleague think of the obscurantist attitude the Conservatives are taking in order to hide the truth from us? |
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| It is above all steeped, from beginning to end, in an obscurantist attitude to science and its applications. |
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| The way that the leadership chose to deal with these attacks was to counter-attack the religious groups as being obscurantist and orthodox. |
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| First of all, it is still typically European: on the other side of the Atlantic this instrument is seen as obscurantist and even mediaeval. |
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| One has also to guard against the obscurantist elements, many of whom are also active in educational processes. |
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| I trust the British government will listen to the debate on this question in the Convention and then withdraw its dangerous and obscurantist proposal. |
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| But all agree on the principles of the republican political regime, the rejection of the ideas defended by obscurantist forces and the need to safeguard the achievements of modernity. |
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| Any political forces which sit on the fence, thereby giving this obscurantist policy an alibi, also bear serious responsibility for this anti-communist hysteria. |
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| It does us all good to read the sense of liberation on the faces of the Afghans and the rout of some of the most obscurantist and cruel oppressors the world has seen. |
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| The dilatory and obscurantist behaviour of the government, as some more eloquent speakers would say, is such that it actually got in the way of doing something on behalf of the country. |
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| We do not wish to impose limits or obscurantist filters: we simply wish to say that science and research must also have rules and guiding criteria. |
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| We do not accept that the most reactionary pressure groups should be able to censure research on the grounds of religious interdicts or for whatever obscurantist reason it might be. |
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| In particular, the possibility of reactionary and in many ways obscurantist regimes, such as those of Iran and North Korea, coming into possession of nuclear weapons must be prevented. |
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