All 13 Uses of
scrutiny
in
War and Peace
- Although the hall porter saw someone's carriage standing at the entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady's old cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone.†
Chpt 1
- Now tell me, my dear boy, are you serving in the Horse Guards?" asked the old man, scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently.†
Chpt 3
- Kozlovski scanned the ranks resolutely and included Rostov in his scrutiny.†
Chpt 5
- He felt the weight of that resolute and affectionate scrutiny and glanced at her occasionally.†
Chpt 6
- When her hair was done, Natasha, in her short petticoat from under which her dancing shoes showed, and in her mother's dressing jacket, ran up to Sonya, scrutinized her, and then ran to her mother.†
Chpt 6
- When Prince Andrew spoke (he could tell a story very well), Natasha listened to him with pride; when she spoke she noticed with fear and joy that he gazed attentively and scrutinizingly at her.†
Chpt 6
- "Then it's all right?" said Nicholas, again scrutinizing the expression of his sister's face to see if she was in earnest.†
Chpt 7
- From habit she scrutinized the ladies' dresses, condemned the bearing of a lady standing close by who was not crossing herself properly but in a cramped manner, and again she thought with vexation that she was herself being judged and was judging others, and suddenly, at the sound of the service, she felt horrified at her own vileness, horrified that the former purity of her soul was again lost to her.†
Chpt 9
- As he went along he looked with pleasure at the year's splendid crop of corn, scrutinized the strips of ryefield which here and there were already being reaped, made his calculations as to the sowing and the harvest, and asked himself whether he had not forgotten any of the prince's orders.†
Chpt 10
- As they were going round the Sukharev water tower Natasha, who was inquisitively and alertly scrutinizing the people driving or walking past, suddenly cried out in joyful surprise: "Dear me!†
Chpt 11
- Pierre looked round at his fellow prisoners and scrutinized them.
Chpt 12 *scrutinized = carefully examined (by looking)standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- He screwed up his seeing eye to scrutinize the messenger more carefully, as if wishing to read in his face what preoccupied his own mind.†
Chpt 13
- Dolokhov answered absently, scrutinizing the face of the French drummer boy.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(scrutiny) careful examination of something