popularist

Reflecting popular taste and opinion.

There have been others, of course, antagonistic to established authority, whose philosophy has been anything but popularist, but it is not the popularist basis of Benn's antiauthoritarianism that is peculiar.

They based their honour killings on a hadith which used the Arabic word for honour in a word play which gave the reader a choice – to favour the more popularist and customary notion of male control over women or to follow the more pro-woman emancipatory approach which gave women control over their own honour and sexual lives, answerable only to God.

An artist or composer whose work appeals to popular tastes.

Three composers in the study are undoubted popularists.

Blitzstein discerns a pervasive debt to impressionism among these folkloric primitivists, and he refers at times to Bloch explicitly as a “post-impressionist” (whereas he sometimes places Copland among the popularists)

One who adapts and popularizes a subject.

Here, she has no greater debt than to Sylvester Graham, originally a New Jersey minister who found a more successful calling as the popularist of what his magnum opus summarily entitled The New Science of Human Life.

Did Alan Watts (1915–1973), one of the first Western popularists of Zen, have it right when he described Zen Art as the “art of artlessness, the art of controlled accident” (Watts 1994)?

On who advocates populism.

The so-called 'popularists' attempted to exploit the urge of the masses of the Western Ukrainian lands for enlightenment and cultural education in their native tongue in order to strengthen the dominant position of the Ukrainian bourgeoisie.

In their view the 'nascent leader' is a transient type which will develop into either a 'leader' or 'popularist'.

One who explains social phenomena in terms of popular responses and habits.

Despite the paucity of early psychological research on the consequences of job transfers, popularists have been quick to point to the negative consequences of transfer: heart attacks in men, depression in women, maladjustment in children.

Traditionalists see only campaigns launched to recover Jerusalem as true crusades; generalists argue that any Christian war fought for God was a crusade; popularists claim that crusading came out of popular, peasant movements; while pluralists argue that any war in which the participants took a vow and gained spiritual rewards could be seen a crusade.