Censurer

Ne bloguant pas anonymement, je suis très souvent obligée de me censurer et parfois de raconter des histoires bizarres pour parler de certaines choses sans trop en dire. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“Not of refusal or expostulation — that time is gone by,” said her stern censurer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In a language so expressive as the English, I hate the pedantry of tagging or prefacing what I write with Latin scraps; and ever was a censurer of the motto-mongers among our weekly and daily scribblers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Call this palliation, or what you will; but if you see not the difference, you are blind; and a very unfit judge for yourself, much more unfit to be a censurer of me. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But she was a severe censurer of pieces of a light or indecent turn, which had a tendency to corrupt the morals of youth, to convey polluted images, or to wound religion, whether in itself, or through the sides of its professors, and this, whoever were the authors, and how admirable soever the execution. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Behind his back I have never heard him praised without joining the eulogist; I have never heard a word spoken against him without opposing the censurer. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But this is the least part of what this worthy censurer of theological discourses rebukes and corrects. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

* The elegant satirist of Christianity will smile at the presumption of so humble a censurer. ❋ An English Lady (N/A)

For nothing is more disgraceful or more unpleasant than slander that recoils on the person who sets it in motion; for as the reflection of light seems most to injure weak eyes, so does censure when it recoils on the censurer, and is borne out by the facts. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (N/A)

The censurer, and the censured, will stand at the same bar, and be tried by the same Judge. ❋ Andrew Lee (N/A)

Let not the reader, from these remarks, suppose that their author is a morose censurer of the times; or that the least sneer is intended against that idol of all orthodoxy "things as they are." ❋ Various (N/A)

-- I am far from being the advocate of extravagance, or the enemy of domestic order; and the liberality which is circumscribed only by prudence shall not find in me a censurer. ❋ An English Lady (N/A)

Tired of the part he was playing, and which, it must be confessed, was not calculated to flatter the censurer of Kings and the reformer of constitutions, he determined to sit no longer for whole hours in colloquy with his interpreter, or in mute contemplation, like the Chancellor in the Critic; and the speech to which I have alluded was composed. ❋ An English Lady (N/A)

The world was too stubborn for instruction; with the fate of the censurer of Corneille’s Cid, his animadversions shewed his anger without effect, and Cato continued to be praised. ❋ Unknown (1909)

S: O you who believe! whoever from among you turns back from his religion, then Allah will bring a people, He shall love them and they shall love Him, lowly before the believers, mighty against the unbelievers, they shall strive hard in Allah's way and shall not fear the censure of any censurer; this is Allah's Face, He gives it to whom ❋ Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1902)

The head-master had the generosity to bear his censurer no grudge for his outspokenness. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

Dennis was not his only censurer; the zealous Papists thought the monks treated with too much contempt, and Erasmus too studiously praised; but to these objections he had not much regard. ❋ Johnson, Samuel (1891)

[The Secretary] was censured for [fucking up] [the arms] shipments. ❋ Phillip Phil (2009)

Throughout time, Censure Society has defined what we collectively accept as historic reality. Just remember: The [victorious] [dictate] THEIR interpretation in [deference] to many other possibilities...timing is EVERYTHING. ❋ YAWA (2020)