What's the difference between inscrutable and scrutinize?

Inscrutable


Definition:

  • (a.) Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (2) It's hard to think of an artist who has remained quite so inscrutable while releasing quite so much music.
  • (3) Angry demonstrators have noted that Putin's tears are in stark contrast to his usually inscrutable, and even callous-seeming, behaviour on other big public occasions.
  • (4) 10.40am: Meanwhile this from the Guardian's football correspondent Kevin McCarra Capello's inscrutable when you try to work out his thoughts on team selection.
  • (5) The reign of Pius XII began in the month of Czechoslovakia's rape and ran its course through the terrible years of war and the inscrutable years of uncertain peace and technical revolution which followed.
  • (6) At the booth in between the never-was of Windsor and the has-been of Detroit, the officer I happened to draw had a gruff belly and the mysterious air of intentional inscrutability, like a troll under a bridge in a fairytale.
  • (7) On previous visits, the city had presented a rather inscrutable face.
  • (8) The words “power front row” conjure images of an inscrutable Anna Wintour, but in 2014 there are a lot of globally important front rows she doesn’t sit on.
  • (9) China’s anti-hegemonic aim, expressed in almost inscrutable prose, is to secure “tolerance among civilisations” and respect for the “modes of development chosen by different countries”.
  • (10) It is rather about the abuses of power elites, in government, academia, media, the judiciary and so forth, whose agendas are often opaque even to locals, and all the more inscrutable to unsuspecting foreigners.
  • (11) The camera cuts to Algeria manager Vahid Halilhodzic, who is sitting on his bench looking most inscrutable.
  • (12) The former Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann, up in the crowd, looked inscrutable but he surely approved.
  • (13) What they have in common is a tendency towards pragmatism, the ruthlessness common in national leaders and degrees of inscrutability which make it difficult to gauge where they will bend and where they will refuse to compromise.
  • (14) Another was the sight of the Queen, with trademark inscrutable expression, listening politely in the Radio 1 Live Lounge to a performance by singer Danny O'Donoghue, of the BBC talent show The Voice, and his band the Script, as they sang a cover version of David Bowie's song Heroes.
  • (15) The inscrutability of Garland – along with widespread accolades even from many conservatives – likely made him a particularly appealing candidate to Obama, as he challenges Republicans to lift their commitment to blocking any nominee to the supreme court during an election year.
  • (16) Comey entered the room at 10.02am to a chorus of clicking cameras, shook hands with chairman Richard Burr and sat behind a table, staring ahead inscrutably, his hands pressed together.
  • (17) There are campaign photographs of him, emerging from a motorcade in inscrutable shades, that ooze JFK panache.
  • (18) Opacity creates ample opportunities to hide anti-competitive, discriminatory, or simply careless conduct behind a veil of technical inscrutability.
  • (19) Exactly when and why this happened is uncertain, since Hill was always notoriously inscrutable about discussing his personal life.
  • (20) Its workings are inscrutable – near the end of this novel, Zakalwe is commanded to lose a war that he has been rather brilliantly winning on behalf of the Hegemonarchy, and he rather regretfully complies.

Scrutinize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.
  • (v. i.) To make scrutiny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Peter Schweizer – whose book scrutinizing donations to the Clinton Foundation has earned sharp rebukes from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and liberally aligned groups – confirmed on Thursday plans to investigate Bush’s past financial dealings.
  • (2) He scrutinizes the credentials of these candidates and discusses the problem of using autoantibodies to identify causative antigens in a T-cell-mediated disease.
  • (3) The general late sequelae and the functional and aesthetic repercussions of circatrization were scrutinized and compared with the method of treatment and the postoperative course.
  • (4) The FECGs were recorded on magnetic tape and later analysed by scrutinizing each QRS complex prior to the trigger of a rate meter.
  • (5) The protein sequence searching program Scrutineer has been modified to search for targets from a file.
  • (6) The radiologic and clinical records were scrutinized to determine the actual effect of the radiologic examination on management of the patient.
  • (7) The primary care physician should recognize that: the natural history of this disease is variable and unpredictable; symptomatic disease in the elderly patient may be easily overlooked; and therefore, older patients who have vague and varied nonspecific neuromuscular, GI, and constitutional complaints or acquired behavior disturbances should be carefully scrutinized.
  • (8) The authors scrutinize in details the structural scheme of organization of patient's search-and-rescue work and suggest, that main principles of planning and management of search-and-rescue operations in aviation could be applied in a decision of problems, which arise in medical assistance to the victims of the natural disasters and accidents.
  • (9) Eighteen studies (13 equivocal, 5 misinterpretations) were scrutinized to determine the limitations of venous duplex scanning compared to phlebography and are the focus of this analysis.
  • (10) Studies of culture-specific disorders, service utilization and patient population studies, psychiatric epidemiological studies, and studies designed to test the validity of certain diagnostic instruments are scrutinized for evidence of the nature of the role of indigenous cultures in the manifestations of psychiatric disorders among these populations.
  • (11) In addition, Scrutineer still accepts targets typed in interactively but can now write them out in the format required as input.
  • (12) To scrutinize the fidelity of this stoichiometric form of chromatin reconstitution, we use circular dichroism, nuclease digestion, thermal denaturation and the sensitive electric birefringence method.
  • (13) The procedural skills of internists have been scrutinized recently because of concern for quality of care and because of economic and liability issues.
  • (14) In 100 consecutive deaths from a coronary care unit, the coronary arteries were examined microscopically in longitudinal sections (serial and semi-serial) so that the entire extramural part of each artery was scrutinized.
  • (15) The inclusions are typically near vacuoles and a minimum of three vacuolated fibres must be scrutinized to detect them with confidence.
  • (16) It is suggested that all known methods of integrated worm control should be scrutinized and the most promising methods be tested under practical farming conditions in the country to reduce our dependence on anthelmintic compounds for worm control.
  • (17) Physicians have been advised to scrutinize these patients carefully with a variety of diagnostic tests and to treat their conditions vigorously if bacteremia is seriously considered or proved.
  • (18) Hospital records were scrutinized and 179 of 180 (99 per cent) were included in the evaluation.
  • (19) Scrutinized statistical analysis revealed not only the well-known predictive value of the number of myeloblasts, but also a significant prognostic impact for the percentages of polymorpho-nuclear granulocytes, eosinophils and basophils.
  • (20) Pacemaker therapy, though widely accepted, currently is being scrutinized to determine its impact on cost as well as quality.