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Example sentences for "criticising"

Lexicographically close words:
critical; critically; criticise; criticised; criticises; criticism; criticisms; criticize; criticized; criticizes
  1. In criticising the Jewish revelation,(474) he puts no limits to his words of severity.

  2. Hamilton has shown the inconsistencies of Schelling’s system, in criticising that of Cousin, who was his great exponent; see Dissertations, ess.

  3. Of course he was studying her, and no doubt criticising her, at that unfavorable moment.

  4. The priest takes his seat to await its conclusion, not to make one of an audience who for the time being are to be relieved from the more engrossing thoughts of prayer by criticising the Gratias as rendered by Mr. A.

  5. Before criticising this explanation, let us give the English affair, alluded to by Mr. Podmore.

  6. But one may protest against criticising the Bible, or Homer, by methods like those which prove Shakspeare to have been Bacon.

  7. Mr. Hopps earned the ill-will of the Glen for ever by criticising the doctor's dress, but indeed it would have filled any townsman with amazement.

  8. After criticising with less severity poets and authors, rhetoricians and lawyers, Folly proceeded to re-echo the censure of Colet upon the dogmatic system of the Schoolmen.

  9. Orthodoxy assumed a purely divine origin for the Bible, while sceptics treated the holy book with greater levity than they would dare display in criticising a modern novel.

  10. Now it would be hard for a man to live with another who was always criticising his actions, even if it were kindly and just criticism.

  11. I was not criticising as we went along, but thinking that perhaps the greatest charm of books is, that we see in them that other men have suffered what we have.

  12. You have succeeded in criticising about everybody and everything, that pertains to the good colored people of this city.

  13. It is, said one angrily, "unbecoming to spend most of his time criticising his contemporaries.

  14. I go slap through a room full of MSS, criticising deuced conscientiously, with the result that I post back some years of MSS to addresses, which I should imagine, must be private asylums.

  15. He was always careful if he had reviewed a book in the paper criticising its ideas to take an immediate opportunity to show the author his warm personal friendliness.

  16. When criticising his country his voice has the note of pain that only love can give.

  17. And yet we find that Charles Lamb, in criticising the old actors of the eighteenth century, praises them for the essential unreality of their presentations.

  18. In criticising the importance given to money in La Comedie Humaine, Theophile Gautier says that Balzac may claim to have invented a new hero in fiction, le heros metallique.

  19. And in criticising painters so different as Landseer and Martin, Stothard and Etty, he shows that, to use a phrase now classical, he is trying 'to see the object as in itself it really is.

  20. I much fear that the spirit you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you.

  21. There is no need for here entering upon discussion which might thus be raised, and which would entail the task of criticising multitudes of statements made in a singularly loose and unscientific manner.

  22. And you cannot get rid of it by chiming in an ignorant second to the talk that has been going on lately, carping at or criticising methods of work.

  23. Satan reproving sin is not an edifying sight, but Satan criticising sin is still less agreeable.

  24. It would not at all surprise us if either of these writers should be found criticising the other by name, even though the very view opposed should be contained in the same Encyclopædia with the criticism.

  25. The show was continued, and again Don Quixote broke in, criticising some of the stage effects: bells were never used by the Moors, only kettledrums, he said.

  26. Finally Don Quixote retaliated by attacking and criticising Sancho's language, which he said was atrocious.

  27. It was evident he was not very skillful, and the opinion of the bystanders, who amused themselves with criticising his preliminary performances, was about equally divided respecting his ability to perform the undertaking.

  28. It was then absurd to pursue a man criminally for criticising a book, and requesting another not to read it, which was all that had been done.

  29. And this reminds me that you have been criticising me before to-day, calling me superstitious, and I don't know what else.

  30. Annette leaned on her mother's bosom, and resigned herself with a feeling of sweet rest and comfort to be petted and caressed, without criticising either grammar or logic.

  31. And now that he had learned to dress with greater care, out of deference to her, she could find nothing about him to help her in protecting herself by criticising him.

  32. On the contrary, the bishops subjected them to a very searching examination and discussion, criticising and weighing every point and every expression; and seemed disposed, in measure, to recast some of them entirely.

  33. It must be observed, in criticising Krafft-Ebing's theory, that it is so constructed as to render controversy almost impossible.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "criticising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.