bien-pensant

• “Similarly, Mr. Bergen notes the rejection of such violence by cleric Yusuf al Qaradawi, a darling of the bien-pensant left, but neglects to tell us that Qaradawi's oeuvre includes a fatwa authorizing women to engage in suicide bombing.”

  The Wall Street Journal: America's Most Wanted

• “His presidency has been a presidency of shibboleths, of endless boasts that he's delivering on the bien-pensant slogans that others just mouth.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Overcaffeinated CAFE

• “Yet the strikes have become objects of ritual denunciation by Pakistan's government, which likes to play to the anti-American peanut gallery, as well as by segments of the country's bien-pensant class.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Face of Pakistan's Courage

• “So as a counter to these books and the cumulative impression they leave, I'm going to do something that's frowned upon in many bien-pensant circles: I'm going to cheerlead for technology.”

  Forbes: Why The Internet Is Not Making Us Stupid

• “Watching the 24-hour news channel, NTV, one sees a face-off between a secularist retired army general and a journalist of roughly bien-pensant views that ends up with shouted recriminations of "fascist" and "separatist.”

  Forbes: Turkey: A Day In The Life

• “The only thing more shattering to the bien-pensant world view would be news that Chez Panisse in Berkeley uses Crisco.”

  Newsweek: Proud(ish) to Be American

• “Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Today one is inclined to advert to, on the one hand, a brutal lesson for our political élite and the bien-pensant MSM and, on the other hand, a symptom of the problem that they have.”

  Archive 2008-06-15

• “AT FIRST GLANCE, a form of race hatred could have been seen as the motivation of the second component of the dry coalition, the bien-pensant northeasterners who would come to be known as progressives.”

  Simon & Schuster: LAST CALL

• “Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson is generally viewed as quite bien-pensant despite an array of views about the causes of poverty and the significance of racism that are hardly PC.”

  John McWhorter On Randall Kennedy’s New Book “Sellout”

• “In the current New Republic, there's a passel of blather under the byline Amitai Etzioni (a name achingly familiar to all connoisseurs of crypto-academic bien-pensant bullbleep) that sets forth a plan by which America will transform itself into a nation of savers.”

  Panic in Detroit

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