All 16 Uses of
critical
in
The Fountainhead
- It was pleasant to look at buildings and criticize them with a professional manner and with the memory of page 439; to hold artistic discussions and exchange the same sentences from the same paragraphs.†
Chpt 1.6criticize = give 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 didn't mean to criticize or...I didn't mean anything.†
Chpt 1.7
- "Am I correct in gathering," Francon asked, "that you are criticizing me and teaching me something about architecture?"†
Chpt 1.8 *criticizing = 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.
- Are you here to give me lessons and criticize my taste and pass judgment?†
Chpt 1.8criticize = give 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'm not criticizing anything," said Roark quietly.†
Chpt 1.8criticizing = 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.
- If I'm correct in gathering that you're criticizing mankind in general...†
Chpt 1.12
- The leader of the profession—on a mean scale, there was no grand scale left in anything—was Gordon L. Prescott, Chairman of the Council of American Builders; Gordon L. Prescott who lectured on the transcendental pragmatism of architecture and social planning, who put his feet on tables in drawing rooms, attended formal dinners in knickerbockers and criticized the soup aloud.†
Chpt 4.7criticized = 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.
- "I stand with Mr. Scarret," said the man who had spoken of Senators, and the voices of the others seconded him, and the man who had criticized the editorials said suddenly, in the general noise: "I think Gail Wynand was a hell of a swell boss after all!"†
Chpt 4.16
- It appeared in the Banner and had started as a department of art criticism, but grown into an informal tribune from which Ellsworth M. Toohey pronounced verdicts on art, literature, New York restaurants, international crises and sociology—mainly sociology.†
Chpt 1.9
- Her field was confined to home decoration, but she ventured occasionally into architectural criticism.†
Chpt 1.9
- He was saying to an unhappy young architect: "No, my boy, what I have against you is not the bad building you designed, but the bad taste you exhibited in whining about my criticism of it.†
Chpt 2.6
- Architectural criticism seemed to be a neglected field of endeavor; few people bothered to write about buildings, fewer to read.†
Chpt 2.9
- It is a mistake to glorify mediocrity by an effort at serious criticism.†
Chpt 2.12
- "Yes," said Fougler, "my approach to its criticism is the same as your approach to its writing.†
Chpt 3.6
- Toohey's criticism of "The March of the Centuries" had been a blow.†
Chpt 4.7
- They hang on to Kream-O Pudding, and leave us such trivia as the theater, the movies, the radio, the schools, the book reviews and the criticism of architecture.†
Chpt 4.15
Definitions:
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(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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(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
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
See a comprehensive dictionary for more specialized senses of critical including those in mathematics and nuclear energy.