Fabian

(noun.) a member of the Fabian Society in Britain.

(adj.) using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; 'a fabian policy' .

(adj.) of or relating to Fabianism; 'the Fabian society' .

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• What is called Fabian Socialism, the exposition of socialism by the London Fabian Society, makes its appeal to reasonable men of all classes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Readers of the Fabian Essays know Mr. Wallas and appreciate the work of his group. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Wells has been savage and often unfair about the Fabian Society, but in The New Machiavelli he touched, I believe, the real disillusionment. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For ten years Fabian tactics prevailed in Italy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Sidney Webb, in the customary Fabian fashion, had dismissed the General Strike as a sign of socialist immaturity. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Bernard Shaw has found time to do no end of campaigning and even the parochial politics of a vestryman has not seemed too insignificant for his Fabian enthusiasm. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But the original Fabian enthusiasm has slackened. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Perhaps more than anyone else, the Fabians are responsible for turning English socialist thought from the verbalism of the Marxian disciples to the actualities of English political life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The socialism of the Fabians soon became a definite legislative program which the various political parties were to be bulldozed, cajoled and tricked into enacting. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Unlike the orthodox socialists, the Fabians took an active part in immediate politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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