How to Use unreconstructed in a Sentence

unreconstructed

adjective

• Yes, polls show the unreconstructed leftist is leading the Labour Party out of contention in the June 8 vote.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 11 May 2017
• Stem to stern, the GOP is sailing with a full complement of unreconstructed chaos agents.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 20 Aug. 2022
• Outside the home, French onion soup is best eaten in an unreconstructed bistro.
  — Joshua David Stein, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• For one thing, Labour is now led by an unreconstructed socialist who resisted the party’s Blairite turn to the center in the 1990s.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
• And indeed, some of the people who came to work for Gröning were unreconstructed followers of Hitler.
  — Richard J. Evans, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
• The bill passed the House because the Freedom Caucus, that claque of unreconstructed extremists who hold the balance of power there, gave in a little.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2018
• This allowed him to court Democrats who held unreconstructed racial attitudes but who favoured a large social safety net.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• Morpheus is a pretty unreconstructed guy at the beginning of Act II.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2021
• Proud to be an unreconstructed Reaganite, Abrams further awards himself the title of neo-con.
  — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 16 Jan. 2018
• The left’s theory blamed an unreconstructed pre-modern approach to wildlife that, instead of protecting it, killed and ate it.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 27 May 2021
• The justices could impose moral order on the South’s unreconstructed politics of hate.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• There are lots of compelling ideas like that, from flat-taxers and fair-taxers and unreconstructed Georgists and other sundry practitioners of wonkery.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 30 Mar. 2022
• Rainey’s brother, Edward, had taken a leading role in protesting these codes and the unreconstructed state government.
  — Christopher Frear, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• In many respects, this simply means reconnecting with his unreconstructed self, the fellow whose politics were set in 50 years ago and haven’t changed since much in their essentials.
  — vanityfair.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• His brief appearance as Trump’s human shield did nothing to halt the accusations that the President is an unreconstructed racist.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• In the Khrushchev thaw, China was the unreconstructed past; Mao proclaimed Russia revisionist.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• What begins as a macabre sendup of the unreconstructed South culminates in a more unsettling and possibly supernatural wave of vengeance, as the killings assume the dimensions of an Old Testament plague: Some called it a throng.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
• That's because, as difficult as this is to remember from today's vantage point, Carter was considered a moderate in 1980 and Kennedy was the unreconstructed New Deal liberal.
  — David Faris, TheWeek, 11 Feb. 2020
• The only alternative to working within the parameters of the existing agreement to keep Iran verifiably nuke-free is the war of Bolton’s and other unreconstructed neocons’ fever dreams.
  — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 1 May 2018
• Strong black support for someone who prosecuted the Klan running against an unreconstructed racist is hardly surprising and would have the chance to repeat itself if Jones were the Democratic nominee taking on Trump.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 13 Dec. 2017
• Last year, he was widely depicted as an unreconstructed Marxist and a political dinosaur, destined to lead Labour to electoral extinction.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
• As Oliver pointed out, Brexit champion and unreconstructed fool Boris Johnson described the government's strategy as having its cake and eating it, too.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 12 June 2017
• The closest comparison in my historian's recollection was the ugly, obscene innuendo that the unreconstructed right applied to FDR in the 1930s.
  — Julian E. Zelizer, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• But the crusher was George Norris, the unreconstructed populist senator from Nebraska, who insisted that the people, not some capitalist, should develop such a major public work.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
• Kamala Harris represents an unreconstructed progressivism of precisely the sort this magazine was founded to oppose and will continue to oppose with all of our energy.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 16 Oct. 2020
• Kennedy and his fellow Republicans have mined this history to suggest Omarova is an unreconstructed communist.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• Kershaw was an unreconstructed Renaissance man — a painter, sculptor, lawyer, semi-pro quarterback, grassroots organizer, and avowed racist.
  — Connor Towne O'Neill, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Sep. 2017
• For years, the party has demonized judges as unreconstructed Communists and obstructionists.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 3 July 2018
• Falwell cast Trump, still regarded by many believers as an unreconstructed sinner, as a pragmatic businessman who would honor his promises to evangelicals.
  — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
• People interviewed for this article almost unanimously described the couple, who do not have children, as unreconstructed workaholics.
  — New York Times, 21 Dec. 2020

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