unreconstructed

Example Sentences

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Don Fabrizio declines the offer and launches into a memorable defense of unreconstructed Sicilian society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Flannery O’Connor’s thrillingly hard-edged tales about the unreconstructed South and its redemption-deficient malcontents will never lose their power to scratch us awake with their violence, humor and ugly truth.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

The lead character’s therapist is an unreconstructed Freudian.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2021

As an unreconstructed liberal, I felt like Simon Wiesenthal discovering he had inadvertently partnered with Mengele.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2020

I didn’t think it at all strange that a thirteen-year-old boy in the unreconstructed Southern town of Stamps spoke with an En- glishy accent.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou