Jesuitical

The Bishop's apology strikes me as--excuse the term--"jesuitical" in its careful avoidance of the central issue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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." ❋ Unknown (2009)

If they attempt “clarification”, as Anderson is doing, they come across as jesuitical word-parers or philosophical mugwumps. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I care, he said, and I steeled myself for a jesuitical parsing of Part X of the Rules of the Senate of Canada. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, jesuitical? ❋ Unknown (2005)

Only that thou hast such jesuitical qualifyings, or I should think thee at last touched with remorse, and brought within view of being ashamed of thy cursed inventions by the ill success of thy last: which I heartily congratulate thee upon. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The hundred and seventh ordered the bodily searching of nuns for jesuitical symbols by aged clergymen, and was considered to be the real mainstay of the whole bill. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She discovered a surprising eagerness to know the particulars of his life, and asked a thousand questions concerning his atchievements in war; all which Mr Lismahago answered with a sort of jesuitical reserve, affecting a reluctance to satisfy her curiosity on a subject that concerned his own exploits. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was a most philosophic and jesuitical motorman. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“Her reasoning was jesuitical but feminine,” I cried; “she had begun to love you already!” ❋ Unknown (2003)

As I was coming here I thought I should bear away an image of jesuitical cunning, of deception, of an inquisitorial serpent, and I found honour, magnificence, a student. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Church to the rate of interest was inherently absurd, and that the subtle discussions aimed at distinguishing the return on money-loans from the return to active investment were merely jesuitical attempts to find a practical escape from a foolish theory. ❋ Unknown (2003)

THE PRESIDENT: This will be like a jesuitical examination. ❋ ITY National Archives (1996)

Boston, defeated in his Endeavours to serve his Country, by jesuitical Schemes from ❋ Unknown (1993)

In saying which, Miss Climpson was not wholly accurate or disingenuous, but excused herself to her conscience on the rather jesuitical grounds that where so responsibility was floating about, it was best to pin it down in the quarter which made for peace. ❋ Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 (1988)