All 12 Uses of
critical
in
The Idiot
- "As to the article, prince," he said, "I admit that I wrote it, in spite of the severe criticism of my poor friend, in whom I always overlook many things because of his unfortunate state of health.†
Chpt 2.8criticism = the act of finding fault and telling others; or a description of faults
- My article showed my lack of education, but when he criticizes he scatters pearls!†
Chpt 2.10criticizes = gives an opinion of what is wrong with somethingstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- I will just add, however, that Georges Dandin might have existed exactly as Moliere presented him, and probably does exist now and then, though rarely; and so I will end this scientific examination, which is beginning to look like a newspaper criticism.†
Chpt 4.1criticism = the act of finding fault and telling others; or a description of faults
- I was criticizing a current report of something which then happened, and having been myself an eye-witness of the occurrence—you are smiling, prince—you are looking at my face as if—†
Chpt 4.4criticizing = giving an opinion of what is wrong with somethingstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- At length she plunged into an energetic and hostile criticism of railways, and glared at the prince defiantly.†
Chpt 4.5 *criticism = the act of finding fault and telling others; or a description of faults
- Poor Lizabetha Prokofievna was most anxious to get home, and, according to Evgenie's account, she criticized everything foreign with much hostility.†
Chpt 4.12criticized = gave an opinion of what was wrong with somethingstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- Mrs. Epanchin examined the portrait of Nastasia Philipovna for some little while, holding it critically at arm's length.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- Give me their books, give me their studies, their memoirs, and though I am not a literary critic, yet I will prove as clear as day that every chapter and every word of their writings has been the work of a former landed proprietor of the old school.†
Chpt 3.1
- But if some writer had invented it, all the critics would have jumped down his throat and said the thing was too improbable for anything.†
Chpt 4.4
- Well now, if I were to describe all this, and I have seen greater events than these, all these critical gentlemen of the press and political parties—Oh, no thanks!†
Chpt 4.4
- But the situation was becoming rapidly critical.†
Chpt 4.5
- Why did he always feel as though "that woman" were fated to appear at each critical moment of his life, and tear the thread of his destiny like a bit of rotten string?†
Chpt 4.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(critical as in: a critical problem) important, serious, or dangerous
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(2)
(critical as in: don't be so critical) finding fault and telling others; or tending to have unfavorable opinions
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(3)
(critical as in: critical acclaim) relating to careful analysis or thoughtful judgement of what is good and bad about something -- possibly from people whose job is to share their expert opinions in a given industry