jesuitical
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Examples of "jesuitical" in Sentences
- Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, jesuitical?
- I care, he said, and I steeled myself for a jesuitical parsing of Part X of the Rules of the Senate of Canada.
- The Bishop's apology strikes me as--excuse the term--"jesuitical" in its careful avoidance of the central issue.
- If they attempt “clarification”, as Anderson is doing, they come across as jesuitical word-parers or philosophical mugwumps.
- He is bringing back the problem of jesuitical thinking, a mode of thought characterized by "dissembling and equivocating in a manner once associated with Jesuits."
- This counter-reformation jesuitical "military bureaucracy" model of the clergy and religious is a fundamental structural problem with the church today, and the solution cannot be reduced to simply rooting out the bad.
- We cannot be as reasonably sure that the old conditions of men's relations in society are in whatever new shape destined to return, as we are sure that it was a good thing to prevent a feudal and jesuitical government like Austria from retaining a purely obstructive power in Europe, and a jesuitical government like France from establishing the same obstructive kind of power in America.