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Usage examples of critical.

But as any adverse or critical comment on Washington, any ridicule at all, would have been considered unacceptable at this stage, Adams served as a convenient target for mockery and humor, and would again, just as he would be subject to the easiest, most damaging of smear words: monarchist.

And as exasperated as Adams was with him, as critical as he sounded, he refused to let the friendship slip away.

With this passage the deconstructive phase of critical thought, which from Heidegger and Adorno to Derrida provided a powerful instrument for the exit from modernity, has lost its effectiveness.

A compromise, that--like many other things in his life and works--between individuality and the accepted view of things, aestheticism and fashion, the critical sense and authority.

So, it was no surprise that in the critical months of 2002 and 2003, while the Bush administration shunned deep thinking and banned State Department Arabists from its councils of power, Bernard Lewis was persona grata, delivering spine-stiffening lectures to Cheney over dinner in undisclosed locations.

Enough modifications had been done to the seawater inlets and vents along the hull of the Archerfish to allow her to bottom-- actually rest her hull on the sea floor--and still run her critical machinery.

Therefore, at the moment when Gering was pressing Iberville hard, the Frenchman suddenly, with a trick of the Italian school, threw his left leg en arriere and made a lunge, which ordinarily would have spitted his enemy, but at the critical moment one word came ringing clearly through the locked door.

A critical instance occurred at Ascensiontide, 1268, in connexion with a solemn procession to St.

Zillur Athar, a psychiatrist of Asian origin whose intelligence and critical sophistication shone through his sometimes halting English.

The most popular forms or manifestations of Vishnu the Preserver, were his successive avataras or historic impersonations, which represented the Deity coming forth out of the incomprehensible mystery of His nature, and revealing Himself at those critical epochs which either in the physical or moral world seemed to mark a new commencement of prosperity and order.

Politicians in Tel Aviv lived in constant fear that the Americans would discover Jonah at a crucial moment when US support was critical.

Now, approaching Basrah, he knew that the critical moment of his mission had come.

He was critical of men like Bizet, Wagner, Verdi, and Gounod, and fiercely envious of their fame.

Host would know the difference unless the scale was very large, and then, blooie, critical mass.

Again, if the dart be successful, then at the second critical instant, that is, when the whale starts to run, the boatheader and harpooneer likewise start to running fore and aft, to the imminent jeopardy of themselves and every one else.