It seems that Liszt will endure as the master-spirit in this reactionary phase of the symphony.
Whatever be the truth of personal gossip, there is no doubt that Bruckner lent himself and his art to a championing of the reactionary cause in the form that was intrinsically at odds with its spirit.
His reputation was now at its highest, and his great popularity was enhanced, in the prevailing discontent with the reactionary and clerical government of previous years, by the fact that he was a Protestant and not of noble birth.
In 1833 he went to Portugal to assist the liberal Dom Pedro against the reactionary Dom Miguel, but abandoned the idea when it was found that a Polish legion could not be formed.
Hence the Jesuits, who are reactionary in Europe, when seen from our point of view, represent progress.
This caused the gravest discontent among the Janissaries still in garrison at Constantinople, to the reactionary party in the Divan, and to the ulemas.
The Divan was divided into two parties, those who favoured reform and who gave support to the Sultan, and the reactionary party, who were opposed to all reform and championed the Janissaries.
Sazonoff, Russia's Foreign Minister at the beginning of the war and an ardent believer in the prosecution of the war, was deposed early in the reactionary regime and sent as envoy to London.
Czar Nicholas in anger dismissed Premier Trepoff and installed a thoroughlyreactionary Cabinet.
Swayed more and more by the tendencies of a reactionary Russian nationalism, Stolypin's Government set out to uproot the national-cultural institutions of the "alien" races in Russia.
Even the reactionary Government was taken aback by the approaching storm.
The petitions to the Tzar applying for the pardon of convicted perpetrators of violence went regularly through the Minister of Justice, the ferociousreactionary and anti-Semite Shcheglovitov.
The attitude of this reactionary Duma toward the Jewish question was revealed at its early sessions when the bill concerning the inviolability of the person was the subject of discussion.
Bogolepov himself, the reactionary Minister of enlightenment, fell a victim of this agitation among the student body.
Naryshkin, a reactionary dignitary, demanded that "the dangerous Jewish nation" be barred from the Duma.
This reactionary tendency came to light in the very beginning of the new reign.
These reactionary terrorists knew only of one way to solve the Jewish question--by exterminating the Jews.
By the time of Napoleon it had become an anachronism of the most dangerous and reactionary kind.
If a man who wants to go east discovers that he is walking west, he is usually reactionary enough to go back on his steps.
The reactionary parties looked on him with great suspicion, and it was at this time that he formed a friendship with Gustav Freytag, the celebrated novelist, whom he protected when the Prussian government demanded his arrest.
In spite of his arbitrary rule and his reactionary ideas the king was popular among his subjects, and his statue in Hanover bears the words "Dem Landes Vater sein treues Volk.
He was shot at by a reactionary journalist in 1908, but escaped without serious injury.
He founded the Ligue des Patriotes, which was suppressed by the Government in 1889, was an ardent supporter of General Boulanger, and one of the leaders of the reactionary forces during the Dreyfus case.
This was not popular in Genoa which, hitherto a Republic, was now handed over to Victor Emmanuel I, a reactionaryof the most extreme type.
In the meantime the King, in spite of the reactionary spirit which was abroad, honourably maintained the liberties of the country, and in the courageous appeal to his people he gave a pledge of his intentions.
Leaving out of account the minor particularist groups, the most reactionary of existing parties is the Conservatives, whose strength lies principally in (p.
By Austria, Russia, and other reactionary powers persistent effort was made during the ensuing decade to influence the king to rescind the concession which he had made.
Silius in poetry represents, on a reduced scale, the same reactionary sentiments that in prose animated Quintilian.
Result in the defeat of Napoleon and the triumph of anti-democratic or reactionary elements.
Reactionary elements in control--opposed to democracy and revolutionary doctrines.
It is sad but true that many college teachers are more reactionary in questions of method than the better class of high school teachers.
Against that reactionary aim I set the American ideal, or what President Roosevelt called "the historic American position of treating each man on his merits as a man, without the least reference to his creed, his race, or his birthplace.
Wherever and whenever there has been an organized propaganda of anti-Semitism it has invariably been closely intertwined with every other contemporary reactionary oppressive and contemptible force.
But with reactionary propaganda it is quite otherwise.
This was the ideal of Laud and the reactionary bishops, no less than of the scholarly Richard Hooker, of the rugged Scotch Covenanters, and of the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay.
He broke with the liberal Whigs and joined forces with the reactionary Tories.
In reality he was struggling against the inertia and reactionary forces which were shackling the normal development of culture and science in Russia.
But scientific activity being closely limited by the state of the University, which was badly oppressed at that time by reactionary powers, he was led to take part in the defence of the University's right to autonomy.
The more violent the manifestations of the New Womanhood, the more reactionarybecame Punch's attitude.
As a last resort, the Emperor turned once more to the reactionary party for help.
Later on, when, the Liberal cabinet having withdrawn, Maximilian once more turned to the reactionary party and called to power the clericals, he retained the above-mentioned Frenchmen in their departments.
General Miramon and General Marquez were likewise sent away in honorable exile; and by degrees the more conspicuous among the reactionary leaders were put out of the way.
General Forey's policy in letting the regency have its way, and in countenancing reactionary legislation of an aggressive character, had discouraged the honest partizans of order.
It is not, however, fair to regard Gracchus as a radical reactionary who was the first to drag a prisoned and incapable sovereign into the light of day.
This reactionary party believed that the spiritual salvation of the world was endangered, and that all means, falsehood as well as murder, were justifiable, especially against the Jews.
Political crimes may certainly be committed in the interest of reaction as well as in the interest of progress, and reactionary political criminals may have occasion to ask for asylum as well as progressive political criminals.
But it has not disappeared, and might become again of actual importance in case a State should in the future give way to reactionary intolerance.
Have not reactionary States the same faculty of refusing the extradition of reactionary political criminals as free States have of refusing the extradition of progressive political criminals?
A practical proof thereof is that in 1830 even Austria and Prussia, two of the reactionary Powers of that time, refused Russia's demand for extradition of fugitives who had taken part in the Polish Revolution of that year.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reactionary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
