(1) Eldword came to symbolize political obscurantism and right-wing extremism but was an exceptionally able lawyer and in private life good-natured, even-tempered, and affectionate, fond of a good story and good port.(2) He was shot dead in open court, an early martyr in the struggle against obscurantism .(3) The ideological dependence of bourgeois politics upon religious backwardness and obscurantism testifies to the bankruptcy and desperation of the ruling elites, and not only in the United States.(4) They invite questions but also somehow avoid pretentiousness, obscurantism or any form of exclusivity.(5) Of course under some circumstances you find yourself skirting the edge of obscurantism .(6) Or do you believe that obscurantism is all religion has to offer?(7) The choice isn't between prolonging an idyll and risking change, but between a belated attempt to secure a global niche and a decline into obscurantism likely to end in prolonged violence and general incapability.(8) At first liberalism rallied in the face of medieval obscurantism .(9) The media has seized upon the long-anticipated death of the 84-year-old pontiff to subject the American public to a saturation bombardment of religious obscurantism and superstition.(10) The classics, it is generally agreed, are a repository of class vanity, racial prejudice and pedantic obscurantism .(11) allegations in the Press about government obscurantism(12) The intellectual, like the utopian, is constantly attacked for obscurantism .(13) Our problem is becoming obscurantism , which is a deliberate hiding of the facts by vested interests who know they are injuring us.(14) My theory is that her obscurantism is a revenge for the drooling nonsense recited about her by men, male directors especially.(15) I'm positively depressed with the levels of prejudice and obscurantism I've witnessed in modern day Scotland.(16) Instead of succumbing to the forces of religious obscurantism , incompetence and repression, the region's Muslims are set to provide a template for modernist believers across the globe.
