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For reactionary nobles, the king was the guarantor of their hereditary status.
Conversion narratives--tales of evil, reactionary, or addicted people who reform--share one complicating trait: Their protagonists tend to be more compelling in the throes of their particular depravity than after they "come to their senses."
A handful of critics concede that while the film is technically excellent, it's in no way groundbreaking; rather it's simply a collection of "stale and reactionary ideas" being pawned off "under the all-purpose rubric of 'black comedy' " (David Edelstein, Slate ). (Click to read the rest of Edelstein's review.)
With a self-congratulatory smirk, the show presents the most bullying reactionary ideas as if they were progressive . It's the naughtiness of the privileged that runs something like this: Everyone says it's wrong to club kittens with cinder blocks.
Louis’s reactionary successor, his brother Charles X, was interested only in renewing the traditions of the Ancien Régime, even having himself anointed and crowned at the ancient cathedral of Reims.