(a.) Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
(a.) Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the journalist Alexander Chancellor, a friend since Cambridge, agrees with Stoppard that despite sometimes sounding "over censorious, he is actually incredibly warm hearted and very forgiving.
(2) There may be subject matter that I think is in breach of our guidelines and it would be up for me to discuss it with him and grade how censorious you are and how clear you are and what sanction you take.
(3) The censorious atmosphere in the tiny, impoverished kingdom contrasts with South Africa , where newspapers had a field day.
(4) Instead of erupting upwards in ways which surprise, delight and occasionally shock, it travels censoriously and prescriptively down the pyramid.
(5) In our weirdly censorious era, there are too many demands for people to be sacked or forced to resign, too many campaigns and petitions for people with unfashionable views to have their visas cancelled.
(6) Indeed it seems almost to invite the studied censoriousness of the 19th centrury with women again stigmatised as a source of degradation and disease.
(7) Sony’s latest censorious move arrived on Monday, when Vice reported that the studio’s high-priced lawyer David Boies ( of Bush v Gore and anti-Prop 8 fame ) sent a threatening letter to Twitter warning it to delete a specific Twitter account that was tweeting TMZ-friendly emails about Brad Pitt and others found in the “Guardians of Peace” data.
(8) He argued that Google’s decision over what to index should be seen as “editorial judgement”, the same as a newspaper’s decision about what goes on its front page, and that the state interfering in that decision is censorious.
(9) He adopts a plummy, censorious voice: "'You've crossed the quad and you've got your hands in your pockets.
(10) I remember during the last administration, you were critical and censorious of it.
(11) The result is arguably a more censorious environment, one in which your movements and behaviour are more strictly policed, officially and unofficially.
(12) Merkel was doubtless not so indelicate or censorious as to consult her watch, a simple crossing of the arms would suffice.
(13) I noted this censoriously 40 years ago, when homophobia was more common than it is now, and it seems even more offensive today.
(14) Just as we have got to grips with the dominant “male gaze” that subjects and contorts the female form, we must now contend with the “machine gaze” – more censorious than an overprotective dad and as relentless as the Terminator.
(15) Moyles and, more recently, Jonathan Ross have both criticised the censorious atmosphere that prevails at the BBC in the aftermath of the "Sachsgate" affair – Ross said he couldn't wait to leave.
(16) In his later essay on Gissing, Orwell describes the quintessential flavour of Gissing's world - "the grime, the stupidity, the ugliness, the sex-starvation, the furtive debauchery, the vulgarity, the bad manners, the censoriousness" - which sums up the world Orwell sought to capture and to criticise in Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
(17) I thought he was quite censorious of David Cameron in a very calm, collected and quiet way,” she said.
(18) He criticised the use of injunctions and their more censorious successors, "super-injunctions", which prevent media organisations from reporting the fact they even exist.
(19) Over music provided by Ontario progressive rockers Christmas, a series of crudely drawn information films pictured stereotyped Tom of Finland-type lumberjacks about to get down to business in Rocky Mountain log cabins, only to find the Aids Ptarmigan fluttering around their heads advising them to act responsibly, squawking his catchphrase: “We see thee rise!” Needless to say, Chilliwack the Aids Ptarmigan swiftly became the butt of a thousand Canadian standup comedy routines and his short-lived, sex-fearing reign of gay terror has been largely erased from cyberspace by censorious and retrospectively ashamed Canadian public health bodies.
(20) The app is illustrated with the current cover, a cartoon of the prophet Muhammed, in a change from the norm for Apple’s notoriously censorious App Store which has previous banned satirical and controversial apps.
Remark
Definition:
(n.) To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.
(n.) To take notice of, or to observe, mentally; as, to remark the manner of a speaker.
(n.) To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause; as, he remarked that it was time to go.
(v. i.) To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
(n.) Act of remarking or attentively noticing; notice or observation.
(n.) The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; the mention of that which is worthy of attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark.
Example Sentences:
(1) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
(2) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
(3) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(4) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(5) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
(6) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
(7) Tiropramide remarkably increased cAMP level but it had no effect on cGMP level in the bladder at the lower concentrations.
(8) A remarkably close relationship was found between both H. pylori urease subunits and jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) urease, the subunit of which is a single 840 amino acid polypeptide.
(9) Specific antibody patterns in vaccinees were highly variable and in a small number of subjects a remarkable antibody titre decrease was noticed.
(10) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(11) Four of the tumours, 2 adenomas and 2 intramucosal carcinomas, having a remarkable macroscopic appearance like a large mucosal fold are especially mentioned.
(12) During photoirradiation, both in vivo and in vitro, the serum polar (ZE)-bilirubin IX alpha concentration increased remarkably, but unbound-bilirubin values were not affected at all.
(13) Furthermore, the AMDP-3 scale and its manual constitute a remarkable teaching instrument for psychopathology, not always enough appreciated.
(14) The iPTH values found in the hemofiltrate were remarkably high, a finding that could be explained by non-specific effects, by the occurrence of hormone fragments or by an increased secretion rate.
(15) Both Apo AI (48%) and Apo AII (5.5%) were greatly diminished and Apo E was present in remarkably high amounts (39%) with two additional isoforms (Apo E'1 and Apo E'2).
(16) There was a remarkable tendency to newborns weighting more than 2000 g and a duration of pregnancy longer than 35 weeks.
(17) Results of the present study show that epithelial cells of ciliated columnar type covering vocal cords change remarkably to nonciliated squamous cells between prenatal and postnatal stages.
(18) Cyclosporine has a remarkable hepatotropic effect that may be helpful in the context of liver transplantation.
(19) This remarkably reliable examination showed a predominance of anterior and anterolateral aneurisms (87% of cases), and enables definition of the critical cardiac surface area (about 25%) above which the aneurysm is operable.
(20) The influential Belgian scientist Quetelet demonstrated a remarkable scotoma towards the phenomenon.