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. ❋ Michael B. Mukasey (2011)
His presidency has been a presidency of shibboleths, of endless boasts that he's delivering on the bien-pensant slogans that others just mouth. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)
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. ❋ Bret Stephens (2011)
The only thing more shattering to the bien-pensant world view would be news that Chez Panisse in Berkeley uses Crisco. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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." ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If people like Melanie didn't contribute, the bien-pensant left would have a virtual monopoly. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I don't recall any of the bien-pensant objecting to similar tours of the USSR on the ground that it repressed many millions of people. daniel maris ❋ Unknown (2009)
