How To Use Ideologue In A Sentence

The virtues of tomorrow, unlike the virtues of yore, will be inspiring shape-shifters whose purpose, in addition to saving us, will be to baffle the certainties and absolutisms of ideologues everywhere.
Nowadays, partisans on one side of the aisle mercilessly assail their opponents as nefarious ideologues bent on the destruction of the nation, while claiming the sacred mantle of the Founding Fathers as exclusively their own. Morgan Pehme: Strip Politics: A Cure for Incivility
He's energizing his opponents and driving away moderates in droves because he is a right wing ideologue who refuses to make even the slightest concession to achieve consensus.
The virtues of tomorrow, unlike the virtues of yore, will be inspiring shape-shifters whose purpose, in addition to saving us, will be to baffle the certainties and absolutisms of ideologues everywhere.
The senators seemed to have no idea they were describing themselves when they tried to caricature Sotomayor as an overemotional, biased ideologue. Sunday Reading

The storefront office was essentially a filter for the kooks—the knuckle-draggers, the gunnies, and the committed-ideologue nuts. How to Rig an Election
Only the blindest of ideologues could look at this situation and think the government is to blame, let alone to blame on the same order of magnitude as our incompetent response to the flooding in New Orleans. The Volokh Conspiracy » Now that the Government has Proved as Incompetent
Most ideologues, however, have grown accustomed in recent years to acquiescing in the decisions of the country's collective leadership.
Jasun Wurster ... in the process of being subverted by right wing ideologues. How not to recall a Portland mayor (Jack Bog's Blog)
Nobody's questioning the fact that he was the mentor of Zawahiri and the ideologue of Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
If you dont even know what a socialist or an ideologue is I think you would flunk a basic civics test. Think Progress » Tancredo says Obama won because we lack a ‘literacy test before people can vote in this country.’
He is knwon for being ideologically opportunistic more than a stiff left wing ideologue “il a les guillemets faciles”, but I figure at least some policies he advocates would make Obama look like a fascist in comparison. The Volokh Conspiracy » “When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?” Update:
One of the direct benefits they get is political advantage when the nastiness of political ads turns off more reasonable people and polarizes the ideologues to cling to their base. Joe Brewer: The Psychology of Manipulation in Political Ads
What the witch - hunters want us to do is to live the life of servitude to state power, as technocrats and as ideologues.
A good literary critic is not a political ideologue or policy wonk.
And Mr. Dias seems to think that an ideologue is anyone whose ideology disagrees with his. My new favorite blog « A Bird’s Nest
A senior Spanish conservative ideologue admitted 10 years ago that for precisely this reason he feared the end of ETA more than he feared the group's terrorist campaign.
His fear is that of all ideologues, that just one dissent containing truth, reason and evidence will expose him and destroy his whole foundationless empire of unreason. ' Rush Limbaugh confesses he has no confidence in his beliefs
Second, I'm not a hard-core ideologue, as many self-described libertarians are.
The criticism from the rightwing is predictable and to be expected — they have declared opposition to Obama and the Dems, so no matter what anyone does or does not do, they will be roundly criticized by the know-nothing ideologues like Krauthammer and Kristol. Think Progress » Krauthammer On Abdulmutallab: ‘The Guy Is Nigerian,’ So You ‘Have To Assume’ He Wasn’t ‘Acting Alone’
The subtilty of Bastiat, who was no ideologue, may escape many who are. Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog
In the beginning, administration ideologues were convinced we'd be welcomed with flowers.
The situation in France is politically complex and does not lend itself to the easy answers advanced by the ideologues of religious exclusivism, race and nation.
Instead, the neocons were depicted as fanatical ideologues, with no mention of their roots in the business community or their furtherance of corporate interests.
McCain, like Bush and the neocon ideologues, misuse the term intentionally to jerk the chain of the electorate. McCain Blasts Obama As Unfit To Defend America
I don't want to hear about that anymore," responded John Ashcroft, one of the most unimpressive figures in an administration overfilled with inadequates, incompetents and ideologues. 9/11 books round-up – review
The 'catastrophic consequences' that we coarse bloggers are concerned with emanate from the anthropomorphist phenomenon of recycled bovine excrement being regurgitated from the mouths of lobbyists for further ingestion by the credulous; to influence them into supporting the vested interests of some very wicked ideologues. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
It's time to lay down the law to the extremist uncompromising ideologues.
Determined to unmask the ideology of others, they have become ideologues themselves.
At the same time, this next generation of women is too practical, pragmatic, and tough-minded to be dismissed as ideologues.
Is there anyway to guess whether he's going to be a reformer or a conservative or a technocrat or an ideologue?
While Bush favoured aggressive neoconservative ideologues, Obama has selected people whose doveish credentials seem impeccable" The Guardian, Jan 11, 2009 Indra Adnan: It's not American Leadership the World Wants, it's American Companionship
Their failure provides grist for conservative educational ideologues to victim-bash and propagate the phony notion of chronic black educational incompetence.
But here I think the distinction starts to break down: The ideologues might be simply more attentive and conscious of their beliefs, or be embedded within a more structured network of fellow ideologues who can provide them with new ways of accommodating and explaining disconfirming evidence. Matthew Yglesias » Neighborhood Diversity
Actually, there are far, far more filthy anarchy-ist ideologues than there are anarch pragmatists.
The Party ideologue, the keeper of its conscience, Lidichev. THE LAST RAVEN
The word ideologue was often in Bonaparte's mouth; and in using it he endeavoured to throw ridicule on those men whom he fancied to have a tendency towards the doctrine of indefinite perfectibility. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
It seems to me that ideologues aren't usually committed to an idea purely because of the idea qua the idea, but because they believe that the idea has superior normative value. Why aren't we paying much attention to the most qualified Democratic candidate in the race?
Because we all know how difficult it is to be ideologues living with constant hatred and deferring personal judgement and accountability to the next "educated" aka indoctrinated ideologue. Altmuslim
Like him, these ideologues were nonclerical veterans of the 1980s Iran-Iraq War and were often far more politically and theologically uncompromising than many clerics. Let the Swords Encircle Me
The editor was not an uncompromising ideologue attempting to turn back the clock.
Nor would it get anywhere without people like you who remind us wild-eyed ideologues that practicality is important, too.; p Think Progress » Red Cross financial aid Scott Brown voted to kill now assisting Massachusetts relief efforts in Haiti.
To put this bluntly, art and its processes have always been incomprehensible to philistines and ideologues on the right and left.
A good literary critic is not a political ideologue or policy wonk.
One may as well say something on the order of, “if secularist ideologues can reform, putting the murderous hecatombs of the 20th century behind them and live more pluralistically, embody more genuine forms of tolerance, then perhaps Islam can as well.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Conversion from Islam:
In Chicago an ideologue reproached Wright with the example of one Comrade Evans, whose head was bandaged.
Ideologues are quick to run to take up defensive positions against perceived ideological attacks by the other side, leaving them ill-disposed to think through rational analyses of the problems posed by aging populations.
I am far more of an ideologue than a partisan, and rarely hesitate to criticize bad politicians or bad policies, regardless of which party they come from.
In India too, the term comprador is increasingly used not only by ideologues of the ML movement but also by many other economists and political commentators, not to suggest that the Indian bourgeoisie lacks any manufacturing muscle but to emphasise the growing and open pro-imperialist tilt in the economic policies of the Indian state and increasing organic integration between the Indian big business and the imperialist global capital. The Three Contemporary Currents among Indian Communists
Once you realize that a co-participant in discussion is not participating in good faith, but rather is promoting a particular agenda, you begin to anticipate the position of the ideologue before he speaks it. Balkinization
What Pryor demonstrated in the Ten Commandments controversy is that he is not a partisan nor an ideologue.
He provides a forensic analysis of US foreign policy through the speeches and texts of its own ideologues.
You "Right" wing ideologues need to get right with Jesus and do more than CALL yourselves Christians. mattie Obama on health care reform debate: 'TV loves a ruckus'
As twice as the, complainingly ideologue be scolder with hadean static and the initial seventhly cd as setterwort. Rational Review
He used to give lectures to students and hostages alike on the embassy grounds, explicating the writings of the leftist-revolutionary ideologue and mystic.
caricatured" all pro-lifers as "right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman's right to choose"? Redstatesusa
He hitched his wagon to the ideologues who surround him, filtering out those who disagreed, including leaders of his own party and the uniformed military.
If that renders its essence elusive, even to those who profess to be its chief practitioners, it also endows this instinctive ideal with a longevity denied to creeds that have been fashioned on the work-benches of ideologues.
He wasn't an ideologue, he'd never been strong on dialectic, and anyway it wasn't the purpose of the meeting. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Rejecting the object of philosophy, the pure object, the ideologue is left only with his demiurgic drive to impose an ideal on the world and for this he must claim that the meanings of institutions, practices, and realities, like human beings, are social constructions that, accordingly, have only the value that society confers on them. Science
That ideologues can pump up small things and make them seem all-important is very old news.
One of the robed elite, more handbill pusher than ideologue, seemed above, apart from, or perhaps, by now, simply oblivious to the rhetoric.
Instead, the Bush ideologues came to power smug in the security of their own worldview, part of which, frankly, seems to be the belief that it would be soft and unmanly to let facts alter their preconceptions.
Anyone opposed to the portrait was declared to be anti-Hindutva, therefore anti-Hindu, and therefore anti-national, by the ideologues of the Right.
Similarly, when neoconservative ideologues speak of needing to rebuild an embattled US hegemony and legitimacy, they aren't impotently expatiating.
This is not a role model, this is a terrifying ideologue and a fundamentalist, if you will.
Where are all those ‘free-trade’ ideologues now that their theories have turned out to be bunkum, devastating American working families?
The ideologues of Futurism, Dada and Constructivism realised the potential for making works of outrage by collaging existing imagery.
Jasun Wurster and those who support the effort are in the process of being subverted by right wing ideologues who could care less about Portland, but would use this as an issue to say "Look at those liberals who would rather keep a child molester in office ... blah blah blah" in order to justify their fringe values and policies to gain some ounce of momentum for the 2010 election. How not to recall a Portland mayor (Jack Bog's Blog)
It should be called NKVD HQ, because it is dominated by ideologues. Archive 2004-04-01
They provided the loyal headmen to displace recalcitrant chiefs, as well as mission-educated ministers, teachers, and agricultural demonstrators, who became the models and ideologues for a new African identity.
They are tyrants and ideologues whose sole concern is imposing their Nietzschean will to power upon the weak, the uprightly bourgeois, the decently intentioned.
As a former SFU undergrad, I enjoyed haranguing you privileged children/right wing ideologues (you all seem so young, you BC Young Liberallies).
Republican ideologues are supporting the free market insurance companies in defrauding their clients. Obama's political arm release new health care video
But the age of the generals was over and that of the ideologues and technocrats had begun.
He made so much money for the country that no politician, military tactician or ideologue was prepared to cross him. FLOATING CITY
Johnston, avid supporter of the program writes, President Obama is likely to go down as this generation's Jimmy Carter, that is to say a one term ideologue. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
He wasn't an ideologue, he'd never been strong on dialectic, and anyway it wasn't the purpose of the meeting. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
At the same time, this next generation of women is too practical, pragmatic, and tough-minded to be dismissed as ideologues.
And that makes it more than serviceable for the normal run of fanatical ideologues, confirmed partisans and weak-minded bumpkins to make use of endlessly.
Capitalism is being used as a scapegoat to further enhance the power of government by leftist ideologues and political one-worlders.
In a time of fierce ideological commitment and flag-waving, Benjamin was never an ideologue.
What's there is a roaring, muralistic street scene peopled by fathead dreamers, mournful patriarchs, and shrill ideologues - the whole American carnival.
If Obama's policies on Afghanistan, Iraq, health care, the economy, jobs, and any other major issues do not work out as expected, then an ideologue with the exact same mindset of Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, and Michele Bachmann could become President IF the Republican Party is successful in purging out its moderates! CNN Poll: Obama approval under 50 percent
He is an ideologue who believes Kashmir should be an Islamic state within a theocratic Pakistan.
President Obama is likely to go down as this generation's Jimmy Carter, that is to say a one term ideologue. Mia R. Benenate: The 2nd Assassination of JFK Premieres in Conjunction With the Atlantis Flight
There has always been a group among the ideologues that believed in a first strike and a winnable nuclear war.
We will not try for ‘balance’ by hiring fruitcakes; we will try for balance by hiring non-ideologues who have carefully thought through the issues.
Only the free-market ideologues and the grumpiest defenders of the "commercial" could deny that the creation of literary art in any genre is an inherently worthy endeavor that ought to be supported at least to the extent of allowing writers of proven talent to earn a living at it. Art and Culture
Ideologues of left and right have tended to acknowledge one and ignore the other.
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He is not an ideologue, either nationalist or religious.
The protesters aren't ideologues and most disclaim membership in either political parties or unions, though some of the strategic and organizational backbone of the movement has come from a recently formed political group called ¡Democracia Real YA! Ellen Freudenheim: 15 Mayo: What Will It Mean for U.S. Youth Election Year Activism?
Instead, the ideologues of centralism are always trying to make local government independent of the state governments, the better to trample on regional differences.
There is a mirror image of this view among right-wing ideologues, who have their own airtight, smug, and self-satisfying view of the world. David Harris: Ah, to Be an Ideologue!
When the ideologue satisfies your prediction, dismissal may be an all too easy response, since engaging in discussion is likely to end only in both sides repeating their viewpoints ad infinitum. Balkinization
Now, you've got a point, that you have a war ideologue, which is insupportable.
In the battle between ideologues and pragmatists, sometimes one side wins out, at other times the other, and often a compromise is struck.
And knowing that freedom and democracy are the most dangerous enemies of right-wing ideologues, as the bush administration and the republican party have made crystal clear through both words and actions, would it be “extremist” to wonder how much longer true Americans will remain complacent before they take up arms against a government which no longer represents the people, as the Constitution requires? Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » What is “Extreme”?
There are those with collectivist notions of social organization (the ideologues and visionaries among us) who assert we should all love one another and share our stuff and not be competitive.
We have machine politicians, patronage politicians, narrow ideologues and careerists.
By crushing the traditions of the Senate he would pack the courts, especially the supreme court, with lockstep ideologues.
A senior Spanish conservative ideologue admitted 10 years ago that for precisely this reason he feared the end of ETA more than he feared the group's terrorist campaign.
You are right that the ideologues probably form a distinct sample from the merely prejudiced precisely because they have already had exposure and have rejected the disconfirming evidence (this might suggest that they became ideologues because their prejudice was threatened and they needed a coherent means to support it, possibly because abandoning it would undermine some other form of benefit, maybe psychological succor or group standing?) Matthew Yglesias » Neighborhood Diversity
Dem presidents have nominated accomplished, talented jurists not overly ideological while GOP presidents have nominated halfwitted ideologues then snivelled like the punks they are when anyone to the left of Attila the Hun was nomintaed by a Dem. Think Progress » Kyl: GOP Willing To Filibuster Obama’s Yet-To-Be-Named SCOTUS Nominee

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