But the scenes of 1793 had transformed the Corsican youth into a dry-eyed opportunist who rejects the Girondins as he would have thrown aside a defective tool: nay, he blames them as "guilty of the greatest of crimes.
Was it true then that this pope, whose opportunist tendencies were so freely displayed, was one of them, a mere docile instrument in their hands, though he fancied himself penetrated with the doctrines of St. Thomas Aquinas?
This reply made Pierre grave, for he was quite willing to admit that an opportunist code of morals, like that of the Jesuits, was inoculable and now predominated throughout the Church.
Being a moderate opportunist and reputed the ablest financier among French politicians, his return to the ministry of finance reassured those who feared the fiscal experiments of an administration supported by the Socialists.
So the curious spectacle was presented of the Moderate Opportunist M.
A moderate opportunist himself, he intended to form a coalition cabinet in which all groups of Republicans, from the Centre to the extreme Left, would be represented.
The Waldeck-Rousseau programme for the elections seemed therefore to be an implied promise of a moderate opportunist policy which would strengthen and unite the Republic by conciliating all sections of its supporters.
Scheurer-Kestner as its vice-president, showed that the opportunist minister of war understood the feeling of parliament, which was soon displayed by an extraordinary proceeding.
Rouvier, an Opportunist from Marseilles, who had first held office in Gambetta's short-lived cabinet.
At heart they were akin--the politic unscrupulous opportunist vowed to the compulsion of his ambitions, and the girl who through all her threat of danger had given no thought to herself.
The opportunist in Commines was vigilantly awake, that nice sense which discriminates the rising power and clings to its skirts.
Such a coalition could have no vitality and could not reconcile even the opportunistelements of the Bourgeoisie with the Revolutionary Democracy.
Among the higher ranks, and especially the officers of the General Staff, there appeared already a new type of opportunist and demagogue.
A mere opportunist would have met the situation with some insincere proposal, by the formulation of terms that would have certainly been rejected.
Nobody will ever know; but it is worth considering that the shrewd opportunist who expressed himself through The Herald changed his mind during a fortnight in August.
Is not your boasted philanthropy somewhat vicarious, and does not your public morality savour in some degree of mere opportunist cant?
In effect they say that circumstances alter cases, and that might is right--a plea which may perhaps suffice to salve the conscience of an opportunist politician, but ought to appeal less forcibly to a stern moralist.
Washington's party is the party of the opportunist and optimist, which deals with the world as it is: it is a constructive, practical, cheerful party.
The opportunist and optimist on the one hand does his great work with the world as he finds it: he is resourceful, constructive, familiar.
Marxian stripe as opposed to the opportunist socialism of the Socialist party.
To-day for him always disappears before the wave of little opportunist worries, which later are explained as the most inevitable link between the past and the future.
It has succeeded only where it has allied itself with liberal and opportunist rather than radical policies.
Wells, long a member of the Fabian Society, has well summed up the character of what he calls this "opportunist Socialist group" which has done so much to shape the so-called British Socialism.
Though a Liberal himself, he objects that some Socialists are not radical enough, and that "the milder and more opportunist brand suffer from excessive vagueness.
Any static or dogmatic definition of Socialism, like any purely idealistic formulation, no matter how revolutionary or accurate it may be, necessarily invites purely opportunist methods.
It will seem from this and many other instances that the opportunist policy which leads at first to a show of success, later results in a weakening of the immediate as well as the future possibilities of the movement.
But I never forgot that without knowledge even wisdom is more dangerous than mere opportunist ignorance, and that somebody must take the Garden of Eden in hand and weed it properly.
II When you insist on examining the question in the light of first principles your opportunist opponent at once feels the weakness of his position and always turns the point on your consistency.
But for a saving consideration let him go contemplate the wasted efforts of the opportunist in every generation, and the broken projects scattered through the desert-places of history.
And the political struggle of the German proletariat in this entire period had the same opportunist character limited by historical conditions as did that of the English proletariat.
Since historical conditions forced opportunist tactics, the irreconcilability of the proletarian class found expression in the revolutionary formulas of Marxism.
The working class is powerless against imperialism as long as its great organizations stand by their old opportunist tactics.
Condemned for decades to a policy of opportunist waiting, the Party took up the cult of organization as an end in itself.
In this, Marxism as a theory was a valuable tool for political guidance, but it could not change the opportunist character of the class movement, which in essence was at that time alike in England, France and Germany.
The Van Hall ministry had meanwhile been carrying out those excellent financial measures which had saved the credit of the State, and was now endeavouring to conduct the government on opportunist lines.
The Heemskerk ministry had the support of no party, but by the opportunist skill of its chief it continued in office for three years; no party was prepared to take its place, and "the government of the king must be carried on.
And, adroit opportunist that he was, he urged upon the meeting that they support the Health Bureau as the best hope of clearing up the situation.
At once the platform peddler became the opportunist orator again.
There is no 'most favoured' nation in the American character, which in this respect is opportunistto the greatest degree.
The successful man is the opportunist who does what he thinks to be right at the moment, whatever views he may have held on the subject before.
It accentuated the bitter hatred now existing between the Union des gauches, as the united Gambetta and Ferry Opportunist groups called themselves, on the one hand, and the Radicals and the Extreme Left on the other.
Between the two large groups of Ferry and Gambetta there was little difference in ideals, but Gambetta was now the Opportunist and Ferry made his own Gambetta's old battle-cry against clericalism.
Not only man of action, but diplomatist and opportunist in the best sense of the word, he played his game with wondrous skill, and succeeded at last in winning over the reluctant colonists to his views.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opportunist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adventurer; conspirator; operator; plotter; schemer
