All 19 Uses of
condemn
in
War and Peace
- I understand such feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of them, neither do I condemn them.†
Chpt 1
- Your father, a man of the last century, evidently stands above our contemporaries who so condemn this measure which merely reestablishes natural justice.†
Chpt 6
- "I think, however, that these condemnations have some ground," returned Prince Andrew, trying to resist Speranski's influence, of which he began to be conscious.†
Chpt 6
- Now he would take up the position of a practical man and condemn dreamers; now that of a satirist, and laugh ironically at his opponents; now grow severely logical, or suddenly rise to the realm of metaphysics.†
Chpt 6
- On this ground Joseph Alexeevich condemned my speech and my whole activity, and in the depth of my soul I agreed with him.†
Chpt 6
- "He is old and feeble, and I dare to condemn him!" she thought at such moments, with a feeling of revulsion against herself.†
Chpt 8
- 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
- This general, hating Barclay, rode to visit a friend of his own, a corps commander, and, having spent the day with him, returned to Barclay and condemned, as unsuitable from every point of view, the battleground he had not seen.†
Chpt 10
- Soon after the Emperor's return Prince Vasili in a conversation about the war at Anna Pavlovna's severely condemned Barclay de Tolly, but was undecided as to who ought to be appointed commander in chief.†
Chpt 10
- "Besides, is it for me, for me who desired his death, to condemn anyone?" she thought.†
Chpt 10
- Napoleon did not notice that in regard to his army he was playing the part of a doctor who hinders by his medicines—a role he so justly understood and condemned.†
Chpt 10
- He was sent for trial and condemned to hard labor, I believe.†
Chpt 11 *
- "Vereshchagin was tried and condemned to death," thought Rostopchin (though the Senate had only condemned Vereshchagin to hard labor), "he was a traitor and a spy.†
Chpt 11
- "Vereshchagin was tried and condemned to death," thought Rostopchin (though the Senate had only condemned Vereshchagin to hard labor), "he was a traitor and a spy.†
Chpt 11
- "Fancy the Emperor's position!" said they, and instead of extolling Kutuzov as they had done the day before, they condemned him as the cause of the Emperor's anxiety.†
Chpt 12
- Even those, fond of intellectual talk and of expressing their feelings, who discussed Russia's position at the time involuntarily introduced into their conversation either a shade of pretense and falsehood or useless condemnation and anger directed against people accused of actions no one could possibly be guilty of.†
Chpt 12
- And Pierre, without trying to change the other's views and without condemning him, but with the quiet, joyful, and amused smile now habitual to him, was interested in this strange though very familiar phenomenon.†
Chpt 15
- In dealing with this period they sternly condemn the historical personages who, in their opinion, caused what they describe as the reaction.†
Chpt 15
- All the well-known people of that period, from Alexander and Napoleon to Madame de Stael, Photius, Schelling, Fichte, Chateaubriand, and the rest, pass before their stern judgment seat and are acquitted or condemned according to whether they conduced to progress or to reaction.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(condemn as in: She condemned their plan) express strong criticism