All 6 Uses of
scrutiny
in
The Remains of the Day
- But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men, and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of 'dignity'.†
Chpt 1e -
- And yet the truth is, we accept persons such as Mr Marshall or Mr Lane to be great, though most of us cannot claim to have ever scrutinized them under such conditions.†
Chpt 1e -
- His lordship went on fingering his page for a moment, leaned forward to scrutinize an entry, then said:
Chpt 2m - *scrutinize = look very carefully atstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- It was Mr Marshall, it is generally agreed, who was the first to recognize the full significance of silver - namely, that no other objects in the house were likely to come under such intimate scrutiny from outsiders as was silver during a meal, and as such, it served as a public index of a house's standards.†
Chpt 3m -
- I refer to that strand of opinion in the profession which suggested that any butler with serious aspirations should make it his business to be forever reappraising his employer - scrutinizing the latter's motives, analysing the implications of his views.'†
Chpt 3e -
- When I returned to the library a moment later, Mr Cardinal was wandering around the shelves, scrutinizing spines.†
Chpt 4a -
Definition:
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(scrutiny) careful examination of something