单词 | censorious |
例句 | In fact, Jesse and many geeks consider themselves liberators of ideas and culture, using the Net to literally pry them from what they see as greedy corporations and powerful, censorious institutions. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Much advice on style is stern and censorious. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z How can it be explained, not only to the loved ones left behind, but to a censorious public? Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The Verdun section of Montreal was in no sense a dressy neighborhood, and I was convinced that every passer-by was giving me a second, basically censorious look. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Bayes called such commedia stylized, codified, desperate — though there is a kindness about him, and he sounded sympathetic, not censorious. The Professor of Pratfalls 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z August, although raised and happily married in the gentle faith preached by the evangelicals’ deceased leader, has since his wife’s death distanced himself from the religion as practiced by censorious patriarchs such as Enoch. Jeffrey Lent’s ‘A Slant of Light’ chronicles a Civil War veteran’s return 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps the censorious tone is exaggerated by the translation from the German original, but I was left wondering whether Brunner actually likes birds, bird people, or even people in general. The Passion and Peril of Birding 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Lattuada’s point of view — underlined by occasional cutaways to the rooster who struts around the sisters’ henhouse — is cynical but not censorious. DVD: A Version of Gogol?s Short Story ?The Overcoat? on DVD 2012-01-13T18:02:55Z Man, that is a lot of words to say, "the Chinese government is homophobic and we are bowing to their censorious demands rather than lose money." "Fantastic Beasts 3" censors gay storyline for Chinese release 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Under the censorious strictures of the period none of this is spelled out explicitly, which makes it more powerful: the reader's mind imagines the worst of all scenarios. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z But he’s astute enough to know that what’s happening here has no clinical justification, and we can feel Boyle’s censorious attitude pumping through these pages like a naloxone drip. Review | T.C. Boyle is America’s bard of historical frauds. It’s about time he skewered Timothy Leary. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Can people be too censorious of violence?Some people. William Friedkin: 'If I wasn't a director, I might have become a serial killer' 2012-06-29T11:31:00Z For all the flourishes, this is Wilde at his most bitter and most censorious, and that is what Bartlett shows. Dublin theatre festival 2012: The Boys of Foley Street; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Talk of the Town – review 2012-10-06T23:08:02Z But I think we live in a climate that’s becoming increasingly censorious. “Transition makes things easier, but it doesn’t fix everything”: “Trans” author Juliet Jacques 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The incident was condemned on multiple fronts — by the White House, advertisers, angered citizens — and Jackson bore the full weight of the censorious moral panic, fueled by unacknowledged and under-examined racism and sexism. Janet Jackson's induction: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is finally part of the Rhythm Nation 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Sadly for movie-makers, this burgeoning treasure trove is guarded by a censorious state. Why Hollywood kowtows to China 2013-03-11T14:24:26Z Yet the film’s sympathies, only lightly disguised, remain with her right up to the inevitable censorious ending. On DVD, ‘Three Wicked Melodramas From Gainsborough Pictures’ 2012-10-07T05:10:06Z This new movement ballyhoos instances of liberal students’ and deans’ imposing outlandish, censorious strictures to stop other students – often young white men — even from saying things and making gestures that might make others “uncomfortable.” The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z And yet, I'm wary to be too censorious about it. The Birth of a Nation: a gripping masterpiece … and a stain on history 2013-07-29T14:31:08Z He asks if there are people with a similar background in the audience, and proceeds with anecdotes — about schoolteacher nuns and priests, both censorious and inspirational — he presumes will be familiar to them. Review: Reliving a Childhood Interrupted in ‘The Tricky Part’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Were it installed in a church it would not raise any censorious eyebrows. Art Review: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, at MoMA PS1 2012-12-06T21:51:50Z I’m willing to buy into the sacrosanct nature of the Pythons’ schoolboy humor that those mean, censorious Yanks were so eager to abridge. Theater Review: Onstage in London, Works That Look Back in Time as They Move Forward 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z We like to imagine that we’ve moved beyond the sting of those censorious Victorians, but their literary prejudices have left an indelible stain on our tastes. Perspective | Summer reading has a fraught history. But if there was ever a time to delight in escapism, it’s now. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Jordan, who cowrote and directed the pilot, isn't content to use this image to wag a censorious finger. "Camelot" and "Borgias": Blood, boobs and costume drama 2011-04-02T18:01:00Z In our censorious times, that battle and the extremes through which it is depicted are enough to keep the pages turning. Surviving, and Thriving, in Middle School Hell? Three New Novels Say It’s Possible 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The committee stopped short of banning the novel, however, because it was at least partly redeemed by the voice of its censorious narrator, who condemned the action as it unfolded. Tereska Torrès, 92, Writer of Lesbian Fiction, Dies 2012-09-25T14:41:36Z Puritanical, as a pejorative term, now conjures visions of austere religion, a censorious attitude, and strict demands for adherence to behavioral rules. Why America is so weird about sex 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z And the wagging, censorious tongues of Lorca’s townsfolk are replaced by the all-too appropriately named trolls who lie in wait in dark corners of the internet. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The films of Mohammad Rasoulof often tell stories of ordinary Iranians cornered within a censorious government. ‘A Man of Integrity’ Review: Fighting Dirty 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z She describes in censorious detail the relative luxury in which aid workers often live in the developing world. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z And that while we try our best to balance home and work, some days, everybody falls short — the confrontational reporter, the angry students, the censorious professor. Should a teacher breastfeed in class? 2012-09-12T15:37:00Z Pop stardom, at the turn of the millennium, was an aggressively packaged and censorious business, necessarily hostile to the unplanned and instinctive, to the performance of anything like whim. Billie Eilish and the Changing Face of Pop 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Brought up as a Methodist, she was deeply censorious of selfish divorcers – while always retaining her sympathy for them. Elizabeth Jenkins obituary 2010-09-07T17:43:00Z That heretical attitude puts him constantly at odds with the censorious leaders of the town. Book review: ‘All My Puny Sorrows,’ by Miriam Toews It’s not being overly sensitive or censorious to call that out and say, Do better. Trevor Noah is more than his worst joke: Yes, it’s possible to talk about those tweets without losing perspective 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z But the nature of the shows likely encouraged this behavior as well, since comics who recycled familiar bits had a better chance of satisfying both censorious theaters and audiences who spoke limited English. So a thief walks into a comedy club: Trevor Noah, Louis C.K. and the war over plagiarized punch-lines 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z But it does suffer a bit from a third act that's drawn-out and moralistic in a way that suggests the censorious Production Code is still in force. 'Mother and Child': Tale of 3 women showcases splendid cast 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z The middle-class lad throws his mobile into Lake Tanganyika to break away from his censorious mother; the child soldier casts his revolver into a river to signal his rejection of tribal violence. Africa United ? film review 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z The times were censorious; much that had to do with sex couldn’t be published, and much that was deemed immoral wouldn’t be published. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z These days we live in very censorious times. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Era and Extinction of Rock Stars 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Waiting as long as he did to assume the throne from his indomitable, censorious mother, Queen Victoria, Edward made it his prime quest in life to be amused. Titles and Troubles: American Heiresses Abroad 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z But his “Pinocchio” is less didactic and censorious than the film and the novel. Review: A Wondrous ‘Pinocchio’ With That ‘Lion King’ Magic 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Bending over backwards, sideways and generally playing Twister to avoid the inclusion of swearwords in earlier, more censorious publishing climes has led many an otherwise assured and exemplary author into literary pitfalls. The curse of swearing in children's books 2010-09-08T13:07:00Z Another paper put it this way: “An old maid is one of the most cranky, ill-natured, maggoty, peevish, conceited, disagreeable, hypocritical, fretful, noisy, gibing, canting, censorious, out-of-the-way, never-to-be-pleased, good-for-nothing creatures.” Women of a Certain Age, Gail Collins Has Your Back 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z These artists fear for the current and future viability of their work in an environment that gets more censorious each year. Perspective | The Philip Guston controversy is turning artists against the National Gallery 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z To which he replied — I’m not sure if he was being censorious or applauding my candor — “That will do, young man.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Art of Writing Biographies 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z But De Courcy’s book is entertaining, and it satisfies the need for a peek, at once envious and satisfyingly censorious, at the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Review | A look back at the elegant highs and the wartime lows of the French Riviera 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z This has meant that, while weakness has often compelled them to endure being lectured, criticized and to be found lacking, they have always chafed under such a censorious regimen. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Orville Schell and John Delury on China’s Quest for Rejuvenation 2013-07-16T18:46:30Z And she minds terribly – is fearful "conservative" people will judge her mother censoriously. Sarah Polley: 'Stories are our way of coping, of creating shape out of mess' 2013-06-22T23:05:32Z Robert's mother doesn't pretend to approve yet is more regretful than censorious. The Only True History of Lizzie Finn; The Taming of the Shrew; How Like an Angel – review 2012-07-07T23:05:44Z In “Insurrecto,” she exhumes this episode to conduct a ferocious, censorious and, yes, comic assault on received ideas about history and heroism, art and exploitation, and the ethics of narrative. A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z There is a sense that they are living freely on screen without fear of any censorious editorialising hand. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z From that moment forward, I knew that the left, like the right, could be censorious, dangerous and cruel. I remember college fondly as a place to explore your weird, negative feelings about women and Muslims 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z "We cannot stress enough how these censorious efforts will not end with book bans," the open letter states. Study: Book bans jumped 33% last school year 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Even as other spaces for public expression have shrunk under Mr Xi's increasingly censorious regime, stand-up comedy has thrived, allowing young people to take a light-hearted view of their joys and frustrations. China's growing comedy scene feels censorship chill 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z PEN America, which advocates for free speech, said the bill would impose “perhaps the most draconian and censorious restrictions on public colleges and universities in the country.” Florida bills would ban gender studies, limit trans pronouns, erode tenure 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z It closes on a note of determined hope, with an emblem of continuity and endurance held high above the waters that separate Apple Island from the censorious mainland. Review | In ‘This Other Eden,’ an island refuge is destroyed by good intentions 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z He was upset by what he perceived to be a censorious cultural moment — especially when it came to people speaking out against gay and transgender rights. How Montana Took a Hard Right Turn Toward Christian Nationalism 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The Republicans were once an uptight and censorious party — something I rather liked about them, to be honest — and they are now a party where literally nothing is a disqualification for office. Trump and his movement are symptoms of America's profound disorder — but not the cause 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z His criticism of progressives he views as overly censorious and sanctimonious is a sentiment many on the left have expressed. Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It’s Not So Simple. 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z The more Musk-friendly view of the situation is that Twitter had gotten too corporate, too censorious — too boring in recent years, and it needed drastic change. Commentary: $44 billion can buy Twitter, but it can't buy respect 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Musk’s defense of Roth, the Twitter executive responsible for content moderation policy, also riled pro-Trump Twitter users who have long portrayed him as one of the platform’s most censorious boogeymen. Musk meeting with civil rights groups upsets his fans 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z They accused the platform’s leaders of bowing to a censorious mob. Twitter, Once a Threat to Titans, Now Belongs to One 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z David might not always win, in other words, but he should at least be allowed to take a censorious Goliath to court. Opinion | The First Amendment battle that could transform Big Tech 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Our “dour and censorious age,” she continues, has led to diversity initiatives that can only mean that a publisher “no longer regards the company’s raison d’etre as the acquisition and dissemination of good books.” Review | Lionel Shriver taunts the ‘culture police’ and more in her new book 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z It didn’t take too many years for a civic cleanup campaign to send her packing for San Francisco’s less censorious neighborhoods. Moneta, Tropico, Lordsburg — where did L.A.’s phantom towns vanish to? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z It is, however, perilous to deviate even microscopically from progressive orthodoxy, as enforced by today’s censorious professoriate, so he experienced Twitter crucifixion. Opinion | In the sandbox also known as academia, it’s the golden age of the grovel 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Maybe the greatest was her own temperament, a gripping and sometimes unnerving test of wills, as she faced down White tennis audiences and censorious authorities. Perspective | For Serena Williams, retirement could be just the latest reinvention 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z DeSantis, on the other hand, has made being a censorious fundamentalist his political identity, especially by enthusiastically backing the "don't say gay" law in Florida and declaring war on Disney for resisting him. Ron DeSantis isn't a dirtbag. That's exactly why he won't beat Donald Trump 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Some users Friday argued that Truth Social, which has promoted itself as a free-speech sanctuary to rival what they call Twitter’s censorious “cancel culture,” had worked to squash discussion of the hearing outright. How the Jan. 6 hearing played out on the pro-Trump web 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Culture warriors, mostly on the right, charge that the platform has become a censorious extension of an identity-politics-obsessed liberal establishment. Perspective | The real problem with Twitter under Elon Musk may involve privacy 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z He has used his considerable influence — he has 85 million Twitter followers — to inveigh against what he sees as a censorious liberal culture in technology and media. Selling Twitter to Elon Musk Is Good for Investors. What About the Public? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Certainly, it will require resisting censorious dictates and flouting unjust laws. Opinion | Internet companies shouldn’t leave Russia. They shouldn’t become its tools, either. 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z DeSantis, on the other hand, has made being a censorious fundamentalist his political identity, especially by enthusiastically backing the "don't say gay" law in Florida and declaring war on Disney for resisting him. Ron DeSantis isn't a dirtbag. That's exactly why he won't beat Donald Trump 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z No, not that kind, though as a writer of the Jewish tradition, she invokes God as a creative, censorious and punishing He. Review | In Sheila Heti’s ‘Pure Colour,’ the plot is just an excuse for philosophical musings 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z “The sense that this has gone too far has triggered a backlash that is so much more censorious and silencing than what it purports to counter,” Suzanne Nossel, the head of PEN America, tells me. Opinion | Current weather: A blizzard of snowflakes in the red states 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z While she can set out the facts about the social gatherings that took place in and around Downing Street during lockdown, it is not clear how censorious she can be. Why the Scottish Tory leader wants to oust Boris Johnson 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Friedman called the new legislation “a slippery, censorious slope.” Report sparks debate over bans on critical race theory 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z In August, Gabbard announced that she'd be launching a new channel on Rumble, a Canadian online video platform seen by some as a less censorious antidote to corporate media sites like YouTube. Tulsi Gabbard, former Democratic presidential candidate, celebrates GOP "victory" in Virginia 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Then sanctimoniously declare yourself a victim to your own followers, martyred by the censorious liberals who can't handle the truth bombs you were supposedly dropping. The QAnon playbook: Republicans make school board meetings the new battleground 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Hunted by Nazis, his books consigned to the pyre, Reich fled to the United States only to be hounded again by a censorious American health bureaucracy. Review | What counts as freedom — and how do we get there? 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The blurring of boundaries between religious cultures in that old, truly secularist Bombay now feels like one more thing that divides the past from India’s bitter, stifled, censorious, sectarian present. Opinion | Ask Yourself Which Books You Truly Love 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z But unlike in New York, advocates faced little overt opposition, even from Republicans often censorious of providing benefits to immigrants without legal status. Washington Legislature approves $340M for COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund, making it one of the country’s largest 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z "Started out as a good idea - Let's be nice to people' - and finished up as a humorless, censorious, literal-minded, posturing idiocy," he wrote. John Cleese mocks Hank Azaria for apologizing about voicing Apu on 'The Simpsons' 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Where progressives saw a battle in the war against racism, a great many others saw censorious liberals trying to silence dissent by tarring conservatives as racists. A Teacher Marched to the Capitol. When She Got Home, the Fight Began. 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z The argument goes that censorious liberals are offending free speech by shaming and ostracizing those who breach social or political orthodoxy. Sen. Josh Hawley cries ‘victim’ 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z This is why censorious Islamists dislike it so much. Opinion | Ask Yourself Which Books You Truly Love 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z And he accused the party of being "very censorious of any deviation from an agreed line". Andy Wightman quits Scottish Greens over trans rights stance 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z And, now, a very censorious hell site that sees it as its job to kind of shape what opinions and what voices are acceptable. Can Substack CEO Chris Best build a new model for journalism? 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z In a letter posted on social media, Mr Knowland said he was fired because of the video, and called an instruction by the school to remove it "censorious". Education secretary 'in favour' of Eton admitting girls 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z A group that was once seen as censorious became the least strict chaperone at Trump’s bacchanal. Opinion | This is a massive failure of character among Republicans — with evangelicals out in front 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z This is the problem with Twitter’s censorious choices, and with an expanding mainstream-press definition of what counts as disinformation and distraction. The media’s Hunter Biden conundrum 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z At the Republican National Convention, the topic du jour was "cancel culture" and Republicans' supposed defense of free speech against censorious progressives. Bill Barr leverages Justice Dept. to "cancel" E. Jean Carroll's rape accusation against Trump 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z And that for the Trump administration to try to get it halted when it was virtually on bookstore shelves was censorious and dangerous. ‘Cancel culture’ is complicated. PEN America's CEO has a plan for that 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z But in its current newsroom practice, it is more about overly esteeming the status quo and casting a censorious white, center-right, male gaze on anything remotely controversial. NYT editor Dean Baquet wants his reporters to keep an "open" mind — or maybe an empty one 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Instead, the action garnered even more sympathy for the protesters, who were seen as the victims of Trump's violent and censorious urges. Trump and the statues: He still thinks provoking conflict will get him re-elected 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z But over the weeks, this spirit of spontaneous solidarity has thickened into something more forceful and censorious, potentially something angrier. The Great British Battle: how the fight against coronavirus spread a new nationalism 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Now, if I went about censoriously scolding people for not talking the way I talk or thinking the way I think, I doubt anyone would want what I’ve got. Unemployment still skyrocketing 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The financial pressures coupled with a censorious government threaten journalists’ leeway to report beyond the official line, since those who criticize the government run the risk of being starved of funds, or of prosecution. Indian news media fight virus on financial, political fronts 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Not only were they correct all along; they were actually victims, zealously persecuted by an oversensitive and censorious society. The ‘anti-woke’ backlash is no joke – and progressives are going to lose if they don’t wise up | Ellie Mae O’Hagan 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Before the Beatles arrived and the Sixties really got rolling, American fiction used to abound in novels where earnest young people chafed under the censorious regency of “Mrs. Grundy” and her ubiquitous gossip-wielding hatchet squads. Opinion | Has J.K. Rowling figured out a way to break our cancel culture? 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z There is a widespread perception that the prudish platform is especially censorious regarding same-sex content while remaining oddly lax when policing homophobic hate speech. Facebook ads are spreading lies about anti-HIV drug PrEP. The company won't act 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z How else can the censorious and admonitory extreme political correctness of some university campuses coexist in the same world as the unabashed rise of crypto-fascism? ‘Smartphones are worse than nuclear weapons’: an extract from David Mitchell’s new book 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z We’ve reached a censorious place where we allow uninformed public opinion to squash works of art still in the process of being created. Editorials from around New York 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z It too often bowed to a poisonous and censorious multiculturalism. Trump to sign order to protect free speech on college campuses – live news 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The censorious power of Mrs. Grundys always depends on the cooperation of the governed, which is why their regime collapsed the moment the baby boomers shrugged off their finger-wagging. Opinion | Has J.K. Rowling figured out a way to break our cancel culture? 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z By the time Toews was born, in 1964, shunning was no longer official practice, but the atmosphere remained oppressive, nosy, censorious. How a Beloved Canadian Novelist Reckons with Her Mennonite Past 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Putin also addressed the question of how to regulate the musical genre’s use of censorious language. Kremlin should take the lead on rap music, not shut it down, Putin... 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z You find yourself wondering if its title might not have been aimed at his censorious bandmates. Guaranteed to blow your mind: the real Freddie Mercury 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z That could help stop frivolous lawsuits before the defendant has spent too much money and could also, in many cases, discourage litigious, censorious people from bothering to sue in the first place. Real free speech threat isn’t on campus: Rich use courts to silence foes 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In anger, she threw her racket toward her chair, drawing gasps of censorious delight from the crowd in Louis Armstrong Stadium. Sorry Andy Murray, but there is no such thing as a "Big Four" - Golf Digest 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z And conservatives — and even some free-speech advocates on the left — worried that social media companies may be entering a new, censorious era. Facebook Banned Infowars. Now What? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Framing editorial judgment as censorship provokes greater passion and engagement, just as the judgment of scholars is portrayed as a censorious imposition of their own leftist prejudices. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z If your approach is simply condescending or censorious, the ratio of hurt to learning will be high. How Can I Make My Partner’s Parents More Woke? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Burger King stumbled badly while trying to counter the censorious attitudes in Russia. Russian women push back at shaming over World Cup dating 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z The censorious climate of higher education has predictably created a culture of self-censorship. A Movement Rises to Take Back Higher Education 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Humphreys’s research exposed elaborate rituals fashioned in this demimonde amid the need to maintain privacy in the face of a censorious wider culture. Review | How we balance our right to privacy with our collective need for information 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Of course, this could be entirely due to a sudden rise of censorious behaviour. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z His formulation did not account for the relentless counter-speech enabled by social media or its potential censorious effect. Opinion | Sometimes more speech isn’t the solution to offensive speech 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The critique from conservatives, in contrast, casts the big tech companies as censorious and oppressive, all too eager to stifle right-wing content in an effort to mollify liberal critics. New Foils for the Right: Google and Facebook 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Meanwhile Mr Johnson, a former journalist, tweeted: "Absurd ban on Daily Mail by Virgin! Pompous, censorious and wrong #virginontheridiculous". Mail sales halt absurd, says Johnson 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z He has been doing a delicate dance around the president: supportive one moment, censorious the next. Opinion | The State Where Everyone Wants to Be Governor 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z But these facts have done little to slow the relentless news reports and opinion columns about censorious snowflakes. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z In England critics see universities as hotbeds of anti-Brexit provocation and places where censorious students stifle debate. The benefits of a university education 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z In addition to the usual rightwing characters, there were “accomplished people in predominantly liberal industries – entertainment, tech, academia, fashion and media – who resented what they felt was a censorious coastal cultural orthodoxy”. Reckoning with a culture of male resentment 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z I experienced censorious feedback when I spoke openly about my misgivings about the political Zeitgeist in an onlline discussion with members of profession, who are supposed to be accepting, tolerant, flexible and open-minded. Opinion | Education in the Age of Outrage 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z But they are also influenced by censorious attitudes. The gender pay gap 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z And liberals’ censorious proclivities serve to enfeeble them, not empower them. Opinion | Diversity of thought is part of what makes America truly exceptional 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z He’s concerned that young Americans today seem too censorious, too willing to give up their freedom of speech in order to avoid offense. Salman Rushdie Plays the Trump Card 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Even then, the censorious mood was more a subterranean rumble than an outright crusade to crush dissent. Perspective | Conservatives say campus speech is under threat. That’s been true for most of history. 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s a glimpse of the future, a vision of the past, a safe space, a censorious enemy of free speech that took out restraining orders to censor protests by the Black Lives Matter movement. Can the Mall of America survive the retail apocalypse? 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Facebook is also facing complaints from critics who argue the network is not censorious enough and is failing to stamp-out extremist or abusive content. Facebook blocks Chechnya activist page in latest case of wrongful censorship 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The current atmosphere is – I surely don’t need to tell him this – censorious. Eric Gill: can we separate the artist from the abuser? 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z What he wants to do is provoke a censorious reaction so he can say the left is equally censorious as the right. 'Angry white men': the sociologist who studied Trump's base before Trump 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Casting all critics as authoritarian and censorious artificially polarises the debate. When the freedom to offend is a freedom to harm | Abi Wilkinson 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s a hymn to blue-collar America, to rebellious young people who insist on being free spirits despite the prissy elitists and censorious prudes who want to tell them what to think. Is America at its greatest what Trump has in mind? 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z I can use the phrase “matchy-matchy” in a censorious remark softened by a touch of compassion. Test Your Taste: Do You Think Like a Decorator? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z In April, journalist Mona Chalabi made a little splash in a video commentary for the Guardian when she averred that grammar snobs are patronizing, pretentious, censorious — and a bunch of other stuff. Do commas still matter? 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z And this notion that the left is all so angry and censorious … it depends on ignoring one small technical detail: the left is not in power right now. 'Angry white men': the sociologist who studied Trump's base before Trump 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Let’s stop the chronic censorious whining and work to secure fair, competitive elections for all candidates. Ralph Nader: I was not a ‘spoiler’ in 2000. Jill Stein doesn’t deserve that insulting label, either. 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z More troublingly, the videos were often flagged for reasons that seemed unfair, unclear, or outright censorious. Why is YouTube being accused of censoring vloggers? 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The scolding, censorious tone in the media- to say nothing of the screaming of the Hate Hillary crew - is frustrating and disheartening. Hillary Clinton’s 15,000 New Emails to Get Timetable for Release 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Few people may remember it now, but Fox News, which Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation launched in 1996, became a ratings leader largely because of its gleefully censorious coverage of Bill Clinton’s sex scandals. Roger Ailes, the Clintons, and the Scandals of the Scandalmongers 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The left does not have the power to be censorious. 'Angry white men': the sociologist who studied Trump's base before Trump 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Further, by giving censorious goons what they want, it only encourages them to escalate their practices of silencing political opponents. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z “Make no mistake, any security concerns we face on campuses are 100 percent incited by the censorious, intolerant Left,” the statement said, in part. Ben Shapiro banned from DePaul University over security concerns: report 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The secret identification and and automated blocking of extremist speech would raise new, serious questions about the cooperation of private corporations with censorious governmental interests. Facebook and Google may be using copyright scanners to suppress 'extremist' speech 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z This would be good business judgment, as a news-distribution system viewed by the public as censorious or skewed corrodes trust with the customers who drive advertising clicks. Share This on Facebook 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z My characterization of his actions as censorious was unfair, he said, because it lacked the context, or lack thereof, in which the banners appeared, especially after photos of them began to appear in social media. The Integrity of History 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Because media organizations don’t normally comply with his censorious demands, he’s also claimed he’s going to “open up” libel laws in this country when he’s president. Here's why I'm terrified of Donald Trump 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z I suspect that the future will be even more tolerant of sexual variety, and even more censorious of the exploitation of the powerless. A Point of View: Will future generations condemn us? - BBC News 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Of course the majority of normal folk – ie those who didn’t have newspaper columns to fill – were less censorious over this private matter. A brief guide to … LA Galaxy's Ashley Cole, once the world's finest left-back 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z A young girl was sent home with a censorious note from her school because her Wonder Woman lunchbox violated the school ban on depictions of “violent characters.” Goodbye to 2015, a year of absurdity and overreach 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z This censorious attitude filters out into the real world, it seems. Jon Ronson: ‘Time and again on Twitter we act like the thing we purport to hate’ 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z That is, if you can soft-pedal the other side of this twin sense of destiny: Fury’s rigidly censorious form of born-again Christianity. Tyson Fury: the boxer who picked a fight with the world 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Conservative critics who’ve swooped in on student protesters, picking apart their mistakes sanctimoniously, censoriously and opportunistically, never actually report or convey what these students actually experience. We, the people, remain filled with rage: Race, Yale, p.c. and a nation spinning apart on Thanksgiving 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z But when students are deeply engaged in political environments that they can collectively change, starting things here and stopping things there, we sneer and insist that they are censorious, sensitive and downright ridiculous. Are yoga classes just bad cultural appropriation? | Nell Frizzell and Reni Eddo-Lodge 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The result is arguably a more censorious environment, one in which your movements and behaviour are more strictly policed, officially and unofficially. Privacy is starting to seem like a very 20th-century anomaly | David Shariatmadari 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z But the sharpest debate at the synod, which ends in late October, has focused on the eligibility of divorced, remarried Catholics to receive Communion and proposals for a less censorious line on gay Catholics. Africans Defend Conservative Line on Gays, Divorce at Catholic Bishops’ Synod 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z This was unfortunate, and ironic – that PEN, which prides itself on being about “freedom of speech,” really harbors such censorious personalities. Joyce Carol Oates webchat – follow it live 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z As for the raw feelings of friends or staff members, Mr. Price readily admits that he can be contentious, even censorious. A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z But the real Tom Friedman was no less censorious. “I already saw fire in Netanyahu’s eyes”: Behind the scenes with Bibi and Obama 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z And, perhaps most interestingly: how exactly will notoriously censorious Apple deal with being in charge of a youth-oriented radio station? Apple Music's Beats 1: what you need to know 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Holmes describes Marx’s sisters as “clever, capable and talented women enchanted by charming, likeable, liberal Bluebeards who lassoed their desire with babies, domestic drudgery and censorious in-laws.” The feminist who felt too much 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z This was unfortunate, and ironic – that PEN, which prides itself on being about “freedom of speech,” really harbors such censorious personalities. Joyce Carol Oates webchat – follow it live 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z The company has said this freedom helps foster a special kind of speech, even encouraging civil disobedience under censorious regimes, during events such as the Arab Spring and mass protests in Turkey in 2013. Google and Facebook Have Already Solved Twitter's Trolling Problem for It 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Refugees from censorious parents and disapproving communities, those in search of anonymity or a new start, congregated here. The radical readers of San Francisco 2014-03-30T01:07:41Z The reaction in the UK to this decision was swift and censorious. Do drugs really have to be so expensive? 2013-03-28T22:49:56Z Public opinion, though variable, tends to the censorious. Atheists and Islam: No God, not even Allah 2012-11-22T16:03:01Z But that level of censorious litigiousness was not enough for Charles Carreon. Boot up: Microsoft Surface, Apple and maps, the lawyer suing everyone, and more 2012-06-19T07:30:00Z He had no wish to be censorious, and it might be quite true that Gervase would compare favourably with most young men in his own walk of life. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z Jasmine would have liked to lecture her own self now; she felt as censorious of her involuntary self as Aunt May. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z And it is with precisely such indignation that they observe men and women who profess themselves followers of Christ exhibiting a censorious and critical spirit. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z Some apology will naturally be expected for setting the following letters before the searching eye of a critical and possibly censorious public. Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church 2012-03-29T02:00:12.080Z Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The world is censorious, was censorious then, and apt to draw from very small evidence a very dark inference. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z She is restless, irritable, out of sorts, censorious, complaining at home; animated, gracious, affable, complaisant abroad. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z He fixed a censorious glance on the circus manager. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z “A solitary, shy, kind-hearted man,” was the verdict upon him of the frequently censorious Carlyle. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z By his censorious and aggressive vehemence, by boldness and freedom of speech, and by his strong political feeling, Naevius in his dramas represents the spirit of Roman satire rather than of Roman tragedy. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z "Has dad only just had his breakfast?" she exclaimed in high censorious tones as she came in. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z They were too politic to hazard, at once, my favour and hers, by being officiously censorious. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Numbers of his friends distant from Springfield, on reading his speech, wrote him censorious letters; and one well-informed co-worker* predicted his defeat, charging it to the first ten lines of the speech. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z He recanted at large, so as to obliterate every vestige of his heedless and censorious youth. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z He released his hold of the Schnorrer and looked up, to behold a strange, shabby, stalwart figure towering over him in censorious majesty. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z But since the world is so censorious and seems to concern itself with every unimportant young woman's affairs, I thought—I thought——" "You thought a wedding would put a stop to scandal. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z They call us uncharitable, and harsh, and censorious, if we doubt anybody's goodness of heart. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z Seward did not say this in a censorious spirit, but what he did say was true. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z He was not in the habit of giving utterance to censorious or unfriendly remarks about persons, and I am sure I never heard him speak unkindly of any one. Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton 2011-11-15T03:00:20.413Z It would be tiresome if they behaved censoriously about it, and replied frigidly to congratulations, and made cold faces at the wedding. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Yet if censorious people envy us such pleasures at leisure hours, hastening to the end and almost arrived at the goal, we here check our steps. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z They pervert His prohibition of rash and censorious judgments, into a prohibition of all judgment whatsoever. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z The Major has not infrequently been imposed upon, but nothing will disabuse him of his cheerful belief in human nature, and I must admit that he is quite as often right as more censorious people. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z He was more ready at the beginning of his career than in after years to ridicule censorious conduct. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z Perhaps he had no right to be censorious or to resent the Spaniard's somewhat unusual attitude. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z But you know, my dear husband," replied his wife, "that the world is censorious, and that much of the good or ill fortune of our children will depend on the company which they shall keep. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z Mrs Maple who, far from being dangerously facile, in forming any connexion, was proud, was even censorious about every person that she knew or saw? The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z The vices of our age have been portrayed by a thousand censorious pens, and there is no need here to recapitulate them. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Rather, I think, he was resolved for once to let the stiff, censorious world go by unheeded, and be himself alone. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Markedly unimpassioned men tend to be fitful, petulant, censorious, self-important, self-willed, and eager for popularity—so tended Henry. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z At a recent conference he said that web blocking could be used by censorious governments to filter content they deemed politically sensitive. L.A. Law 2011-07-28T17:43:12Z But when Euripides was at rest, censorious tongues ceased to wag, and the next thing to do was to build a monument for him! The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z There’s no reason to be prissy or censorious on the subject of politicians and their ghostwriters. What Does Newt Gingrich Know? 2011-06-30T17:19:41Z I am afraid she was rather censorious, and judged harshly of sinners; that in her own comfortable position she did not always weigh accurately the temptations of others. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z The noisy petulance of a busy, censorious, irritable man and the fretfulness of an invalid are frequently misunderstood. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z She is vain, but never unkind or censorious. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Some of the most unpleasant failings of our nature are no doubt directly fostered by cloister life, just as religious people of every class are often censorious, uncharitable in their judgments, pharisaical and severe. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z She has full right to marry the man she loves, of course, and if—if we are too censorious, it will result only in our losing her altogether. The Turn of the Tide The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem 2011-06-14T02:00:18.357Z It will be seen that I omit no good point, and if I censure it is in no censorious spirit. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z More was by nature censorious, and never heartily approved of anything. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z The censorious gossip, during sewing, which was the bane of our youth,” she adds, “wasted more of our precious youthful powers and dispositions than any repentance and amendment in after life could repair.” A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z But I find myself admiring his determination to ignore the censorious voices, the shallow mockery of age prejudice. Knee-to-Knee with Hefner: An Interview with the Oldest Playboy 2011-06-06T23:20:00Z His sorrow and lamentation gave the censorious an occasion of suspecting him for something more than the uncle of Heloise. Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes 2011-04-28T02:00:15.367Z Oh, my dear Miranda," she stammered, "the world is ever censorious; but as the lyric bard so beautifully puts it— 'I'd weep when friends deceive me, If thou wert like them, untrue.' That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 2011-04-26T02:00:25.180Z To judge by her fiction, she regarded most people as reflexively vain, petty and censorious -- and she'd never even been on the Internet! 2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts 2011-04-18T19:53:00Z When it carried him the people found fault, and when he carried it they were as censorious as ever. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z "What Keble hated instinctively," says Newman, "was heresy, insubordination, resistance to things established, claims of independence, disloyalty, innovation, a critical and censorious spirit." Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Of course, I’m not a censorious person—I can’t afford to be—but it really didn’t seem quite the thing, you know.” The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z He smiled when he caught Miss Dexter’s censorious glance. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Perhaps the fault had been in his surface unfitness for the censorious gaze of the Bagdadians. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z How the world loves "unselfish amiability;" a person who goes through life thinking for others, not irritable, not supersensitive, not censorious! Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z To all censorious eyes he walked invisible; and, shall I tell it? The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z And there the whole of the Jamiesons' wide circle of friends was gathered together, forming an assembly which surely only the censorious mind could find fault with. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z History is required to pass a less censorious judgment on the moral character of those of the colonists who settled north of the latitudes of the West Indies. Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends 2011-02-04T03:00:18.247Z He had heard that men were more generous there than elsewhere, less cunning, tricky, and censorious. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z As time passed, he became more censorious, impatient and bitter. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Noting that the web has allowed an alarming amount of surveillance by commercial actors such as ad-networks, Morozov concludes that this kind of tracking will come to the world's censorious, spying governments. What we really need right now is a serious critique of net activism 2011-01-25T14:30:44Z So let no censorious word be here hinted of mortal Pierre. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z So Joan represents what Bret Harte hated more than anything else in the world, namely, a narrow, censorious, hypocritical, cold-blooded Puritanism. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Your remember his predecessor—so dissatisfied, so selfish, so lazy, so censorious, so unjust to every person and thing around him, and yet so exacting; and, at the same time, so——" "What? The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Therein I join issue with him, though I may bring a censorious pile of cant crumbling and clattering about my ears. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z I'm less concerned that Morozov with the fact that the net has provided a home for authoritarian kooks, hyper-nationalist racists and mobs of violent, censorious loonies. What we really need right now is a serious critique of net activism 2011-01-25T14:30:44Z I understand you, sir," said Mrs. Glendinning, coloring slightly, "you think me too censorious. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Why, the BBC Trust, more systemically censorious supplanter of the old board of governors – which nevertheless retains the right to criticise or even fire the man they hired. Big Brother may be off-air but he has got his beady eyes on BBC trustees 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z If anything, the British press was even more censorious. Climategate burned by reality 2010-07-08T01:01:00Z How true to life is it in a censorious world that "When I did well I heard it never, when I did ill I heard it ever." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources I will do what my heart and my conscience tell me is right in this matter, and defy the sneers of a selfish and censorious world. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 Be no tale-bearer, nor utterer of falsehoods; be not talkative nor rashly censorious. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race He was reserved, and he was not a prig; he was consistent to his own ideals, and yet not censorious. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 "Don't think me censorious, Mr. Wild, if you please; but, really now, was there any need for that?" The Gay Adventure A Romance And it was very remarkable, to say the least, that a person in her position "was possessed of a jewel to tremble in her ear," she added censoriously, "not even to speak of a necklace." Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches "I'm inclined to think you're right, but we must make careful investigation; the people are very censorious of my policy." The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop It calls neither for the censorious blame visited upon Thoreau by some of the critics nor the indiscriminate eulogy bestowed on him by others. The Vagabond in Literature The spoiled child, the censorious talebearer, the callow, conceited youth must be wrought upon by the beat and play of human life. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day Which of us, oh, censorious reader, would have been as strong as Beatrice? The Gay Adventure A Romance The censorious allege that this is all wrong. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident Any censorious or ridiculing writing, picture or sign made intentionally and without just cause and excuse is a libel upon its victim. Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman “Oh, well, in life we have to give and take, I suppose,” remarked the censorious one, with striking originality. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising “The world is censorious enough without those who are nearest and dearest to us turning away and becoming our enemies.” Blind Policy That's true; I have always remarked that where the markets were good, and fish especially abundant, people were less censorious. One Of Them An elementary teacher should not chill and discourage his pupils by criticisms of a cold and censorious character; he should rather exercise his penetration in drawing into light concealed excellences. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 “You will pardon my saying,” he ventured, “that I consider your attitude unnecessarily censorious.” Jacob's Ladder And 'tis very natural for the censorious World not to regard what a Man promises, especially if he does not regard them himself. An Answer to a Scurrilous Pamplet [1693] Who the censorious minority is I do not quite know. A Novelist on Novels She had come to the Grange prepared to be very critical, and even censorious; but once introduced to Aldred, she had immediately fallen under the spell of her striking appearance and winning manners. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story And so it is not wonderful that the home has looked censoriously upon everything that took people away from its orbit. The Intelligence of Woman This, I hope, will stop the mouths of censorious persons, who unjustly arraign our soldiery for the vices of others. Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe It is illustrative of the fact that it is difficult for women--though possibly the criticism should not be confined to their sex--to be faultless in essentials without being censorious in indifferent matters. Roman Women What right had she to draw upon herself all the censorious tongues of a watering-place? Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Comte’s subsequent attitude of censorious condemnation put him entirely in the wrong. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" He had a business of routine to communicate, and then he listened, censoriously, to Charles’ account of his afternoon. The Bright Shawl Alas for Harry! he is considering the likelihood that such a censorious young lady can have a kind heart—or would make a good wife. Physiology of The Opera I could have been glad, however, to have seen her views a little more practical; and her spirit a little less censorious. Coelebs In Search of a Wife For all its license, San Francisco is one of the most censorious and unrelenting societies in the world, and has more old-fashioned people than New York. Ancestors A Novel A woman is a swift and censorious judge of any one who brings trouble upon the man she loves. A Monk of Cruta It was all very well to say that no profit was made on such sale, the censorious world would not believe it. Old and New London Volume I Women had whispered tales which she found impossible to credit; the world was so censorious! Banked Fires Too often is his salary regarded as a charity which may be given or retrenched to suit every emergency of the times, and his family expenditures watched with a jealous and censorious eye. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings She hesitated, thinking perhaps of the censorious landlady. The Deaves Affair He entertained with courtesy and listened with patience, to importunate, censorious civilians, while he had in his pocket copies of dispatches which they had sent to Richmond furiously denouncing him. History of Morgan's Cavalry Ah, in those drizzling months which form at least one half of our life here, what sullen, censorious, uncomfortable, unhealthy thoughts are bred of living in dark, chilly rooms, behind such dripping thickets? Household Papers and Stories You remember his predecessor—so dissatisfied, so selfish, so lazy, so censorious, so unjust to every person and thing around him, and yet so exacting; and, at the same time, so——" "What? The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts On the contrary, the censorious man often separates intimate friends by repeating a matter and digging up forgotten quarrels. Talkers With Illustrations But Nietzsche, was he not an old bachelor, almost as censorious as his master, that squire of dames, Arthur Schopenhauer? Ivory Apes and Peacocks He suddenly perceived that this might be taken as censorious. When Ghost Meets Ghost He had found his resultant in the censorious defence of established things. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman And thus, after a manner so unworthy, were my essays in strategy and barque-building received by a censorious age, that judged ere it knew. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. The censorious talker, with all his criticisms and censures, never does any good, as none heed him but those who do not know him. Talkers With Illustrations It had cost her not a little effort, too, to keep this attitude from developing into stern censorious judgment. The Fate of Felix Brand He had weakened like a schoolboy, all his arguments had been puerile; and even her husband, who was far from censorious, had stated that the whole affair was badly handled. Wunpost Everything that he did, no matter how unselfish, was imputed to his love of money; and yet it had remained for Virginia, the censorious and virtuous, to violate her trust for gain. Shadow Mountain The sound ran over the room like a scudding cloud across a meadow, and when the sheriff stood again to set his censorious eye upon someone responsible, the last ripple was on the farther rows. The Bondboy It is after the same manner that the censorious treat deserving men. Talkers With Illustrations For when a woman expects to be kissed, and is cheated in that expectation, it leaves her in censorious mood. Claim Number One She turned to him with censorious eyes as she spoke, as if struck with a pain of which he was the cause. The Rustler of Wind River Her first realization of the smallness of this provision for her came from the rector’s comment, which was spoken in a tone as if reluctantly censorious. A Manifest Destiny What might have become of him if he had been left to crawl out of his prison into the cold and censorious world, without a friend, a hope, or an interest in life? Name and Fame A Novel I recall a conversation with an Englishman I met at La Coruña, of the not uncommon strongly patriotic and censorious type. The Truth About Woman We are less censorious than our ancestors were. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures The elder brother of the prodigal pictures this loveless and censorious religion. The Social Principles of Jesus His heroines constantly fell into situations which were extremely compromising in the eyes of a censorious world, but they were never completely compromised. Changing Winds A Novel Now, I am not, I hope, censorious and I do not say that she had a lucky escape, but I can say she thinks so. The Paliser case They had an ugly name, besides—but I won't be censorious—and it may have been all beach talk. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas No man I ever met was more censorious of his own actions, or more obstinate in his defence of any principle or theory he was advocating in argument, no matter how hare-brained it might seem. War Letters of a Public-School Boy When a man first stops drinking he is likely to become censorious. The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon Then, too, in the idle, censorious, gossiping, novel-reading life that flourishes in this hothouse existence, the seeds of lifelong misery are not infrequently sown. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Erratic signifies wandering, a stronger and more censorious term than eccentric. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions There is nothing in their ethical code to which the most censorious person can raise the slightest objection. The Empire of the East Go on as you please, dear Lysander; for I have been too much indebted to your conversation ever to suppose it could diverge into any thing censoriously irrelevant. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Individual Christians, why these bitter estrangements, these censorious words, these harsh judgments, this want of kind consideration of the feelings and failings of those who may differ from you? The Mind of Jesus The unemployed nobility, who had long been ousted from their old functions and who were consequently inclined to be censorious, followed their leadership. Introduction to the Science of Sociology He avoided censorious writing, and most of the people he mentions are praised. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors She cared nothing now for the censorious tongues. The Scarlet Feather "I—I suppose Harriet says tidy up," the old lady observed gently, not liking to be censorious at this happy moment of relaxation, but still anxious to do her duty. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Speak of the faults of others only in prayer; manifesting more sorrow for the sin of the censorious and unkind, than for the evil inflicted on yourselves. The Mind of Jesus It embraces a group of organs of harmonious tendency, such as Friendship, Politeness, Imitation, Humor, Pliability and Admiration, as the Combative group is hostile, stubborn, morose and censorious. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 For long years I saw in my grandfather only a coarse, violent old man, niggardly and censorious. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 He had some habits, which, to the stupid and censorious, might almost seem childish. If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson No one ever before accused me of being ill-natured, or censorious; but that woman is the vainest person I ever saw. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life The ironical taunt of proud and censorious Pharisees formed the glory of Him who came, “not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” The Mind of Jesus Pry not, then, too curiously; pronounce not too censoriously on God’s dealings with thee. The Faithful Promiser But when Englishmen, especially English Liberals like myself, take a superior and censorious attitude towards Americans and especially Californians, I am moved to make a final remark. What I Saw in America But maiden and matron are still on one point faithful to the traditions of their grandmothers, and front all censorious comers with a shrug of their shoulder-straps and a flutter of indignant womanhood. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) It is his own fault: he has no need to be so censorious. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice Her first husband was "a pious, humble, and learned person, and an excellent preacher," the best, in Pope's opinion, of the censorious party. The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester Incidents in Mr. Lawson's versatile career which even those who are not censorious might well deem shameful. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated The length of the review is testimony to the interest in the book, and the tone of the article, though frankly unfavorable, is not so emphatically censorious as the one first noted. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century ‘Silly child; so this pack of censorious women and parsons have frightened you into giving me up.’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster After all, here was a babe equipped to face the exigencies of a censorious world; in looks and apparel a credit to any father. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol He had made quite a number of things disappear, and a censorious world is ever prone to judge by disappearances. Marge Askinforit You are censorious, child: when you are a little older, you will learn to dislike every body, but abuse nobody.... My Recollections of Lord Byron The book is remarkable for the autobiographic description, too austere and censorious, of life in Indian cantonments, or during an Indian campaign, before the great Mutiny swept away the old sepoy army of Bengal. Studies in Literature and History People aren’t really censorious, and even the narrow-minded sort allow you certain limits; in fact, I imagine they rather admire you if you can play with fire and not get singed. Brandon of the Engineers Prescott was not a censorious person, and he had a liking and some pity for the man. Prescott of Saskatchewan However, it proved that Mary’s silence had neither an unfriendly nor a censorious intention. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] They judged him by a censorious standard which took no account of genius. American Sketches 1908 It was a mad world—a world in which it was not safe to be censorious. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel She hoped she was not unnecessarily censorious and tried to argue that after all there was no great harm in gambling, but rarely succeeded in convincing herself. Brandon of the Engineers I don't wish to be censorious or to express an actual opinion, but I must say it's a bold bride who keeps her future mother-in-law waiting for eight hours. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea The purposed rowdyism of the man's style shows a little too plainly, but his language is so racy and muscular, his characters so fairly and sharply drawn, that one must not be censorious. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Churchill, late the night before, had sent to the Monitor a despatch written in his most censorious manner, in that vein of reluctant condemnation that so well suited his sense of superiority. The Candidate A Political Romance When the church has touched the subject of amusements, it has generally done so, I think, in a censorious spirit. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training He had always begun these exercises of thought, by telling himself that the world was a censorious old fool, and that he might do just as he pleased as to making any girl his daughter. An Old Man's Love "It would have been more honest to have given the sting without the praise," she thought, "and less hypocritical and censorious." Molly Brown's Senior Days Yet, singularly enough, the Swedes are rather sensitive to foreign criticism, seeming to reserve for themselves the privilege of being censorious. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Ah, in those drizzling months which form at least one-half of our life here, what sullen, censorious, uncomfortable, unhealthy thoughts are bred of living in dark, chilly rooms, behind such dripping thickets! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 He almost felt as if her sins on the grand scale were less blameworthy than the petty vices of her censorious neighbours. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 He threw himself heart and soul into the cause; he gave to it an educated and brilliant mind, and a fascinating oratory; he was as uncompromising and censorious as Garrison. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement Such are men, so greedy of power themselves, so censorious in regard to the violation of justice by others, so blind to the violation of justice by themselves. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges It never entered the head of a single member that Sir James Craig, who, on first meeting a Canadian Parliament, had been so courteous, would have been so abruptly censorious. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Sleep begins to seal many eyelids, when someone with a loud voice heard through the whole room starts a series of sharp critical questions, amusing or censorious, thus: "Who don't skirmish?" Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 Dr. Henderson, whatever his science, was disqualified by his censorious dogmatism, to rule. The History of Tasmania, Volume I A censorious humour is certainly most partial to itself, and self indulgent. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Perhaps if I had had some experience of a batch of them, I should be more censorious of other people. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 But amid their constellation One alone was always dark, For she shrank from observation Or censorious remark. The Book of Humorous Verse "The Colwyns must be having a party," said a rather censorious neighbor, who was sitting with a friend in the bow-window of the next house. A True Friend A Novel No one, I tell you, not even the most strait-laced or censorious. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance And is not this self pleasing humour the fountain of that contentious plea after the pre-eminence, and censorious liberty of judging others, and usurping authority over them? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Eliza, bending down behind the tea-cosy to hide her smile, told me to be quick with my breakfast, in rather a censorious voice. Eliza Madame looked up with bright, black, censorious eyes, at the flushed girl opposite. The Lost Girl The Osbourne children were almost grown, and were at that censorious age when the average youngster feels himself capable of taking mental and moral charge of his parents. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers "And so, to show how much I despised all such censorious cackle, I allowed Destournelle to travel south with me when I left Paris." The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Therefore it is not a rigid and censorious judger; it allows as much latitude to others as it would desire of others. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Their letter in Narratives of Pennsylvania, pp. 177-185, explains the system of land sales, of which our censorious traveller takes so dark a view. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Accordingly, we imparted our scheme, which was eagerly embraced; and, through the kindness of our Spanish girls, we secretly despatched all our spare garments, so that we might not issue bare into the censorious world. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver In spite of little outbursts of opinion which refuse to be suppressed, Lady Poore is as discreet as the most censorious of censors could desire. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 There is no critic so censorious as the self-appointed one; no god so inexorable as the people's voice. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death All our authorities agree in describing her as one of the most considerate and least censorious of mortals. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record They may enable us to look more kindly upon that censorious writer. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Fresh from the more momentous problems of great cities, the interests and misunderstandings of small isolated places bias the mind and make one censorious and resentful. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell The times and the place where these two were bred were alike primitive, and this farewell journey had no shadow of impropriety in it even for the most censorious eyes. Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) True, Congress had appropriated half a million for the defenses of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers; but the censorious public forgot that the money had been voted too late. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death There were even censorious folk in Witanbury who called her eccentric. Good Old Anna What he hated instinctively was heresy, insubordination, resistance to things established, claims of independence, disloyalty, innovation, a critical, censorious spirit. Apologia Pro Vita Sua They were disposed to be less censorious, and I for my part was only too glad Mother was well enough to write, even if she did scold me sometimes. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance One of our popular drinking songs sums up this aspect of our new theology: "God is not censorious When His children have their fling." Christianity and Progress As we have seen, instead of softening his selfish nature, it rendered him more morose and censorious. Hubert's Wife A Story for You "She is another man's wife," said his father, "and it is a censorious world." Salthaven The idle and censorious cannot choose but believe when you say, 'I am come scatheless through weeks of daily and hourly companionship with this man. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia But there was in Cowper a great sense of humour, as there was also plenty of what p. 51Hazlitt, almost censoriously, calls “elegant trifling.” Immortal Memories It is quite a pleasure in this censorious world to see any man absolutely blind to his wife’s faults, and thoroughly awake to her good qualities. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue Milton, self-sufficient and censorious, denies the name of love to these songs of the sons of Belial. Milton You think I am censorious," says he readily, "cruel almost; but to you"—with delicate flattery—"surely I may speak to you as I would speak to no other. April's Lady A Novel “A hundred, Sir Charles,” she answered, “if you are kind enough to ask them; for I do not think you will prove a censorious father confessor.” Mark Seaworth Some censorious critic even ventured to hint that it was added by the hand of art. The Three Lieutenants The unfounded assumption of Mr. Sumner's connection with the arrest sprang perhaps from some censorious remarks in the Senate made by him in December touching General Stone's alleged course in sending back fugitive slaves. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Hence arises the derived meaning, a variation on any theme, a comment, often of a censorious kind. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois If we are revengeful, censorious, judging others harshly, always putting the worst construction on a word or an act, uncharitable, unforgiving, we certainly cannot claim kinship with the spirit of the Lord Jesus. Friendship Their manners are easy, dignified, and lady-like; totally free from all affectation, and in nowise marked by that frigid stateliness and pedantic formality, which a censorious world proverbially attributes to a state of elderly maidenhood. The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales" "You seem devilish pleased with yourself this morning!" he said censoriously. The Girl on the Boat "It's a hard, censorious world, this," answered the elder man. The Borough Treasurer Perhaps, after all, he had been altogether too censorious. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo Unless carefully repressed, such a spirit becomes censorious, or, worse still, spiteful, and has often been the means of losing a friend. Friendship He wrote the last work to censure all the former emperors, that he might appear the only great prince: for a censorious turn is an effect of vanity and pride. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March It is a bad sign in friendship, if intimacy seems to a man to give him the right to be rude, coarse, boisterous, censorious, if he will. Joyous Gard I dare say the "upper ten" did not mind it; they were used to such things; but everything else paled into insignificance to the critical and censorious audience behind them. My New Curate Mr. Fuseli was inclined to be censorious, but possibly his severity was, in a great measure, deserved in the case of poor, vain, pretentious Harlow. Art in England Notes and Studies At least so she explained it, the evening afterwards, to her censorious other-self. Rimrock Jones It traversed the whole policy of the Board, the constitution of the Company and the management of its property, and it was written in highly censorious terms. The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway They have been so censorious—and Lady Teazle as bad as any one. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 But suddenly, from the sarcastic note, he passed to the censorious, and then to a kind of gay rhapsodic. The Lady Paramount My love, I am ashamed to find you so censorious; it is a sad fault, especially in the young. The Farringdons She regarded the abuse as a tribute to the value of her work, knowing that all true prophets suffer under the evil speaking of a censorious world. The Simpkins Plot It no longer served him as a refuge from the din of a clamorous, or the hostility of a censorious world. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Yes, and she is a curious being to pretend to be censorious—an awkward thing, without any one good point under the sun. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 These people, being wise in their own conceits, gloried in their errors, mistaking spiritual pride for piety, and censorious curiosity for concern for their neighbours' souls. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel He who is selfish and grasping, or censorious and ungenerous, will not long remain within the strict limits of honesty and truth, but will shortly commit injustice. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry What would my Arab friends, censorious in all such matters, think of that? Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 To the new generation that had come on he appeared only as the captious and censorious critic of his country. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters But at the risk of being thought a censorious Saxon I must confess that I am quite at issue with Western Ireland on the question of early rising. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. But Little Deeping is a censorious place; and its gossips are the keener for having so few chances of plying their active tongues. The Terrible Twins This greatly increased her natural irritability; made her jealous of the success of every rising belle, censorious, ill natured in remark, and generally disagreeable. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy That is the reason why the respectable English residents in Syria figure in these pages as censorious and hostile, with but few exceptions. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 This was to the effect that he had acquired and had among his neighbors "the reputation of a proud, captious, censorious, arbitrary, dogmatical, malicious, illiberal, revengeful, and litigious man." James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters They are generally unamiable, censorious, or otherwise offensive, perhaps in keeping with the disapproval excited by falsity. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 She is fond of admiration; rather readily censorious of other women; charitable toward male rakes; and partial to fine attire. Shadows of the Stage On the contrary, stripped of the gloss, she was censorious, supercilious, and selfish. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy As the slightly censorious reader looks back upon these poems of the beginning of the War, he cannot resist a certain impatience. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters It is equally plain that his personal unpopularity was mainly due to the censorious tone he had assumed in the criticism of his country and his countrymen. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Allow me to quote, for example, an extract from one of those letters, abusive or censorious, which musical editors receive almost daily. Chopin and Other Musical Essays Mr. Herndon, whose pertinacious researches unearthed that Kansas gentleman's correspondence, and who is keenly censorious of Lincoln's fault, in the upshot trusts and reveres Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln One cause of the absence of "salt" in his writings is that he was not of a censorious or cynical spirit; another was that his turn of mind was rather sentimental than gay. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour “It was in all the papers,” continued Margaret, with her censorious air. The Butterfly House But this was one of the infirmities of old age which were slowly stealing upon her, and which the young should regard with pity and forbearance, but never with a censorious spirit. Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way I wish I could relieve you from these imputations of journalists, too often rash, conceited or censorious, rancorous, ill-natured. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie It will lead to the indulgence of a censorious spirit, to the injury of your own soul, and the wounding of the cause of Christ. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister Indeed, more than one censorious person, who no doubt envied their success, attributed this to the innate vulgarity that showed itself when the contractor's lady was off her guard. Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland Her very back looked censorious to Comfort, but finally she turned around. Comfort Pease and her Gold Ring She was as far as possible from being censorious or satirical. Memoir of Jane Austen None but the censorious will criticize the minister for accepting a larger parish even with a larger salary attached. The Vitalized School Am I becoming more meek and gentle in spirit, less censorious, and less disposed to resent injuries? A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister There is nothing between us save an idle scruple, which even the censorious world does not share. Princess "Why can't you play without swearing, Muster Gibbs?" he will say, catching the whispered hope twenty yards away, and proclaiming it to a censorious world. Certain Personal Matters But the other's next words modified her censorious thoughts. What Timmy Did It is, after all, not a harsh and censorious world. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 You would sit there, coldly censorious, and reason with me about my friends, my manner of life. A Lost Leader Her up-bringing had been so different; this thing was not regarded by the world in the same light as it appeared to her; was she over-strained, opinionated, censorious? Princess The man, reflected the censorious Alice, had no shades or half-tones in his character; he was all bald, strong, and crude. The Half-Hearted There was a slight tone of censorious surprise in his voice, and Betty reddened. What Timmy Did Meanwhile Lucy Woodrow had experienced another shock, and had been afforded some idea of the cheerful readiness with which a censorious world misconstrues our amiable intentions, and imputes selfish motives to the most disinterested missioner. In the Roaring Fifties He who grows angry and censorious shall himself be judged. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross They can repeal censorious laws and abolish restrictions on freedom of thought and speech and conduct. Art The little doctrinaire in her revolted and she was pleased to be censorious. The Half-Hearted Horace must not be thought of, however, as a censorious or carping critic. Horace and His Influence You might keep it in your purse when travelling, to produce if censorious hotel keepers look askance at us. Dangerous Ages A more censorious critic in the "Atlantic Monthly" has also stated explicitly that for true consideration and courtliness we must hark back to certain old gentlewomen of ante-bellum days. Americans and Others His unexceptionable ways E'en liftmen have been known to praise— A folk censorious and, as such, Not given to praising over-much. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-01 Cabmen can be caustic, sceptical, critical, censorious, but they do occasionally stop for breath. A Wanderer in Venice What would that censorious critic have to say of the association of Bohemia with stately Fifth Avenue? Fifth Avenue Mamma's blue eyes can look as unconscious of intention as a child's when she chooses to reprove, and yet does not wish to seem censorious. Holiday Stories for Young People Some carping critics found fault, others were envious, others censorious and shallow; but neither good report nor evil report moved her very greatly, although possibly at times they were the subject of much inward struggle. Elizabeth Fry People in the country are so apt to be censorious, aren't they? The Moon out of Reach My heart is hard and cold; my tongue is ofttimes cruel; my spirit is censorious. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century Catholics, while they esteem a mere fop at his just value, expect their priest to rise above the sneers of the most censorious and, if possible, to challenge the respect of all. The Young Priest's Keepsake His colleague, Mason, is an irritable, petulant, arrogant man, not without a certain ability in debate, but censorious, and unconfined by the restraints of decency in his tirades against the North. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 "The people of Ballarat are censorious, and we must give them no groundwork for remarks," he continued. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia It takes a great deal of close peering to see a mote; but the censorious man sees only the mote, and sees it out of scale. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Prosy she undoubtedly was, but not commonplace, for invariable contentment and unbounded good-nature are more and more difficult to find in this censorious world. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town On the morning of the great event I found myself, instead of properly censorious, intensely eager for the night to come. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment "Who may it be, sir, that I have the happiness to see?" said the lady, censoriously drawing herself up at the too frank gallantry of the stranger. Israel Potter The whole story was not criminal, but truly romantic, and the final tragedy gave a grim touch to what was regarded, even by the most censorious, as a picturesque narrative. Red Money The spirit of censorious judgment, of fierce hate, of impatient intolerance, has often disgraced Christian men. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Take care of censorious judging of others, as if all must be converted in the same way. The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne Gilbert Penny would be heavily censorious; he had, Howat recognized, the moral prejudices of a solid, unimaginative blood. The Three Black Pennys A Novel The good word is," rejoined a censorious old holder, "that you had best go where you belong—on deck—and not be a skulking down here where you don't belong. Israel Potter But it is childish to waste our time in censorious judgment on the individual who does no worse than represent a ruling type. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) "Is it not a kind of Prodigy, that in this wicked and censorious Age, the shining Daphne should preserve her Reputation in a Play-House?" The Present State of Wit (1711) In a Letter to a Friend in the Country He had no esteem for his visitor, but men are not censorious upon the prairie, and Western hospitality is always free. Winston of the Prairie The windows on either side of the marble steps were crowded with faces, ribald or blank or censorious, and Jasper Penny had to force his way into the building. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Be no talebearer, nor utterer of falsehoods; be not talkative nor rashly censorious. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland Having cast a censorious glance in the direction of Mark's jug of ale, they sat down at the farther end of the bench and ordered food. The Altar Steps And I felt that we were, and justly, the target for their rather censorious eyes. Twelve Men It was possible that she might allude to Sylvia's doings when she wrote; but there was some consolation in remembering that George was neither an imaginative nor a censorious person. Ranching for Sylvia Without it we become cross, censorious and irascible. Around The Tea-Table He avoided censorious or satirical allusions to the people to whom he called Selma's attention. Unleavened Bread The censorious Grin, and the loud Laugh, are common and easy things, according to Juvenal; and according to Scripture, the Marks of a Fool. Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) The American press was the most censorious of all. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference O how many things I could tell you of that I learned in the school of that she-butcher, my master's lady; but I must pass them over, lest you should think me tedious and censorious. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes It's weak to give way to the prejudices of censorious folks. The Lure of the North Her's, and not Mrs. Taylor's, or any of that censorious and restricting set. Unleavened Bread And Cally, pausing briefly at the door, turned upon that censorious gaze a face radiant as the morning. V. V.'s Eyes In misfortune they would always blame themselves as sinners who deserved punishment, probably from having paid previously an undeserved attention to the censorious. Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men "His speech," says Ben Jonson, "was nobly censorious when he could spare and pass by a jest." Bacon I don't think I'm prudish, but you can't keep your adventure secret, and school managers are censorious people. The Lure of the North A critical portrait of a book by Mr. Le Queux may be amazingly alive: a censorious comment can only be dull. The Art of Letters "In two minutes," said she, with certainty; and smiled brightly into mamma's censorious concern. V. V.'s Eyes I know before he was prepar'd for the censorious, for he said lett people say what they wou'd, he was sure the intention was good, and his meaning for the service of the public. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 Formerly, his lordship had been very candid; now he had become exceedingly censorious, and he seemed to measure his religion by the severity with which he reproved transgressors. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829 This, that it ought to keep us from premature and censorious judging. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) What seems to be wanted, then, in a book-reviewer is that, without being servile, he should be swift to praise, and that, without being censorious, he should have the courage to blame. The Art of Letters Her flight and absence were commendable in the world's most censorious eyes. The Son of Clemenceau They are often represented as having been stern, censorious, and uncharitable in the extreme. Sketches of the Covenanters Those who know what Italian society was then, and in some places still is, will be not too censorious, judging lightness of tongue and love of a good story as necessarily involving impurity. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 The nation, I fancy, was so relieved to get back to cakes and ale that it was not inclined to be censorious about the new halfpennies and farthings. The Pleasures of Ignorance Send it victorious, First-Prizer glorious, Fill Rads censorious With envious spleen! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 And so would you, if you weren't so critical and censorious. A Great Success Cautious is she, and there is perhaps nothing in this pastoral that will cause the grammarian to wince, or make the censorious rhetorician writhe in his judgment-seat with the sense that she is committing herself. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 "By a 'fair exchange' you mean," her aunt suggested, a little censoriously, "that you expected him to barter his country's secrets for a touch of your fingers?" The Great Prince Shan In this vain attempt dread the reproof of the censorious! The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 Clay, also, he disliked—partly out of recollection of the Kentuckian's censorious attitude during the Seminole debates, partly because of the natural rivalry between the two men for the favor of the western people. The Reign of Andrew Jackson Even the least conscious seem to imagine that what they put down in black and white is to pass under some censorious eye. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 But when some people are not readier to censure, than others to trespass, I know not whether they can with justice be styled censorious. Pamela, Volume II No longer was she the independent woman, censorious and scornful, but a silly, timid little thing. The Price of Love He was never censorious, and instances of his magnanimity are many. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment Writing of Thomas Carlyle, the last words must not be censorious comments on a weakness; we all owe too much to his strength; he is too large a benefactor. Essays Æsthetical Shall censorious superiority assumed by one section provoke defiant self-assertion on the other? John Marr and Other Poems Let us then be tender with the erring and the sinful, rather than censorious, and full of rebuke. Quit Your Worrying! Was he cruel and covetous, slothful and indifferent, uncharitable and censorious; or loving, zealous, and self-denying, the author of peace and lover of concord, a friend and brother? Parish Papers He is the least censorious of men and therefore—though it may sound cynical to say so—I don't entirely trust his judgment. Deadham Hard It is only woman’s censorious nonsense, isn’t it, mother? The Three Brides Criticism is not necessarily censorious; it may approve. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults It seems to me, however," continues this censorious young diarist, "that those who object to the persecution, even to extermination of heretics, admit the uncertainty and dubiousness of all theological doctrine and belief. What I Remember, Volume 2 Upon differences in debate shall acrimonious recriminations be exchanged? shall censorious superiority assumed by one section provoke defiant self-assertion on the other? shall Manassas and Chickamauga be retorted for Chattanooga and Richmond? Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Whatever the censorious critic might say of the front, he could not charge the rear with false pretences; for there was apparent, all over it, an utter indifference to the opinions of mankind. Round the Block |
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