Censorious

My friend Michelle Minton argues that high tech firms trying to do business in censorious China ought to take their ball and go home in principled protest against the Green Dam Youth Escort program. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So people who are concerned about the ongoing pandemic of men's violence against women -- including thousands of domestic violence and sexual assault advocates and educators - are "censorious" if they have a problem with lyrics that normalize and find humor in (fictional) rapists 'misogynist fantasies of brutality and degradation? ❋ Unknown (2009)

One was a scathing demolition of James Atlas's biography of Saul Bellow by Richard Poirier, who described it as a 'censorious' and 'condescending' work, fueled by 'craven hostility' toward its subject. ❋ Lee, Hermione (2001)

Likewise, it should be emphasized here that any attempt to compose a historical picture of the Patriarch and his work cannot be considered correct or proven, at least academically speaking, if it is based on the '' censorious '' texts of the time, which in many ways are irresponsible and historically dubious, and which essentially are nothing but libel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[154] It is sufficient to read the '' censorious '' texts '' against the rebaptizers '' of the eighteenth century that this issue gave rise to. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Boing Boing into the kind of censorious monster it normally ridicules? ❋ Unknown (2009)

"censorious," meaning faultfinding, is derived from the name of these ancient officials. ❋ Hutton Webster (N/A)

Farber ends up looking ridiculous, the Star's publisher, cowardly, the CJC, censorious yet again -- and Antonia Zerbisias like the straight-talking, humorous, independent-thinking heroine she is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Except that several comments did in fact bring up campus speech codes, the Harvard email controversy and other such side issues as examples of “the left” and its censorious impulses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I stay away from Apple, the technology is nice but the company is censorious. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dressing like your Aunt Dahlia DOES NOT mean I am prim, censorious and frigid. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I reached seem to differ so greatly from much of the popular, censorious rhetoric surrounding him? ❋ Unknown (2010)

If, however, I had to declare which kind of review or critical essay, the censorious or the laudatory, has in my experience more effectively allowed me to discharge what I consider to be the critic's most important tasks -- to describe and evaluate the various ways writers can exploit the possibilities of fiction or poetry -- I would say it is the latter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Indeed it does, and you don't have to be an anarchist to smile wickedly as Coward's characters poke bruising fun at all the censorious prigs, both moral and political, who talk a better game than they play. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

NEW YORK — Author James Purdy, a shocking realist and surprising romantic who in underground classics such as “Cabot Wright Begins” and “Eustace Chisholm and the Works” inspired censorious outrage and lasting admiration, has died. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bullies came from harsh, censorious mothers who restrained their children from socializing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Simply put, his actions are not censorious; they are editorial. ❋ Akim Reinhardt (2011)

Mr. Sibal and other censorious politicians claim such steps are necessary to preserve a fragile peace, but there's usually a narrow political motive. ❋ Unknown (2012)

[Keshav] feels his censorious friends are [grammar] [Nazis], so he calls them fags. ❋ Flexmaster (2014)