The opposite extreme to that of censoriousness is here condemned -- want of discrimination of character. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The Blackadder actor, addressing a meeting of Lords on Tuesday, warned of creating a culture of "censoriousness" by removing free speech. From Wordnik.com. [Joe. My. God.] Reference
Addressing the House of Lords on Tuesday, the Mr Bean star said Britain was creating a culture of "censoriousness" by removing free speech. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Last week, the Blackadder star Rowan Atkinson warned a House of Lords committee that the government risked creating a culture of "censoriousness" by removing free speech. From Wordnik.com. [Eye on Britain] Reference
O how I cursed the censoriousness of this plaguy triumvirate!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
He simply says that Lieberman "had a streak of moral censoriousness.". From Wordnik.com. ['The Clinton Wars': A Correction] Reference
I love that Ken Starr is the one embodying the principal's censoriousness. From Wordnik.com. ["Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus"...] Reference
Maybe the real censoriousness resides at the Spectator rather than the Guardian. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But how is all this censoriousness supposed to help women control their fertility?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
So the city's new censoriousness provides an interesting coda to this political season. From Wordnik.com. [Big Stick Conservatism] Reference
Infuse with irrelevance allow to fester and serve with a sauce of dreary censoriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-15] Reference
He protested against the censoriousness which was found connected with peculiar claims of religious feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
When Dana says she worries about the antisemitic suggestion of anti-Zionism, I feel a shadow of censoriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Weiss: Rethinking Zionism] Reference
You seem combined together against the inclemency of the weather, the hurry, bustle, ceremony, censoriousness, and envy of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
I am afraid I have a little spice of censoriousness in my temper, which I knew nothing of till now: but, no, it is not censoriousness neither. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
And perhaps only parents would catch the true notes of mingled censoriousness and complaint that distinguish the post-pubescent voice of Mole. From Wordnik.com. [Book club, week three: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾] Reference
Let me not be guilty of foolish and immodest talking and jesting, of evil-speaking or censoriousness, or of any other of the many sins of the tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
What it may put into circulation is anxiety or censoriousness, certainly a situation of tense untruth when there is pressure to 'make peace' at all costs. From Wordnik.com. ['Shaping Holy Lives', a Conference on Benedictine Spirituality] Reference
The sermon closed with warnings against complacent censoriousness in judging other men's failures, and a solemn declaration of the vital seriousness of "these sayings of mine.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
Elites pounced on the censoriousness of social conservatives. From Wordnik.com. [RealClearPolitics - Homepage] Reference
He confesses freely his own inflexibility and censoriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
The sternness of age and the austerity of censoriousness are now silent. From Wordnik.com. [Imogen A Pastoral Romance] Reference
The only advantage would be if, by our humility, we avoided censoriousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Upton Letters] Reference
Because he had come so near to hating, he accused himself of censoriousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
Perhaps the strain of silent censoriousness had worn out even her strong will. From Wordnik.com. [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference
In 1665, for instance, he writes with surprised censoriousness of Mrs. Penington. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
Their censoriousness and suspicion had, no doubt, driven him into wilder rashness. From Wordnik.com. [Prescott of Saskatchewan] Reference
Abner, instantly chilled, looked sidewise at his companion with a dawning censoriousness in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Skylights] Reference
The sermon flagrantly illustrated the worst characteristic of the revivalists -- their censoriousness. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Christianity] Reference
Praise is the vice of the commonplace reviewer, just as censoriousness is the vice of the more clever sort. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
Criticism, and fault-finding, and censoriousness too often take the place of generous labour for the welfare of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord] Reference
It sprang, not from morbid tenderness of conscience, but from censoriousness and spiritual pride; and none who had studied the New. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
One proof that a man is not perfect, is his censoriousness concerning those who do not see things as he does, or call them by the same name. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet] Reference
He might have recognized his own imperfections to a tolerable degree which would have disinclined him to censoriousness, not to say rashness. From Wordnik.com. [The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution] Reference
No philosopher ever lived with such uniform purity, such abstinence from censoriousness, from controversy, from jealousy, and from arrogance. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
If he takes advantage of his position to exercise his censoriousness upon us we speedily vote him a bore, and take measures to get rid of him. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Ethics] Reference
The liberal voters Mr Cameron lured back to his party by flaunting his metropolitanism are the most likely to be put off by any hint of censoriousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
Martineau, in his scale of the springs of action, rightly ranks censoriousness, with vindictiveness and suspiciousness, at the very bottom of the list. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Ethics] Reference
To note the censoriousness with which they study each other, one concludes that each deems himself (herself) singularly blessed as the repository of human correctness. From Wordnik.com. [Pipefuls] Reference
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