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don't be so critical
Definition
finding fault and telling others; or tending to have unfavorable opinions
- Several of Mother's friends criticized her strictness.p. 34.1
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- I nodded, exhaling deeply, suddenly aware that I'd been holding my breath during those last critical moments.p. 201.3
- "They can hate me," she answered, cutting off the woman's criticism, "hut they're going to get a good education just the same!"p. 34.2
- One critic in particular predicted, "She'll likely die on the table just from the medical problems, much less from a hemispherectomy."p. 164.0
- We talked with our critic through several conferences, supporting our arguments with the evidence and experience from our background cases.p. 164.4
- The neurologist-critic went so far as to write a letter to the chairman of neurosurgery, with copies to the chairman of surgery, the hospital president, and a few other people.p. 164.7
- Because I believed in the critic's sincerity and his concern for not involving Hopkins in any extraordinary and heroic ventures, I never took his arguments as personal indictments.p. 164.9
- Our critic left for a five-day overseas conference.p. 165.5
- Regardless of the reputation of the critics or their popularity, power, or how much they think they know, their opinions become irrelevant.p. 166.6
- This is another instance when I'm glad I didn't listen to a critic.p. 169.5
- Neither Donlin Long nor I could be certain that parts of the critical brain tissue, such as the vision center, were wholly separate.p. 196.9
- Fortunately, as we had expected, the boys shared only a main drainage system, called the superior sagittal sinus, a critically important vein.p. 196.9
- Just before 11:30 p.m., 20 minutes after we started lowering their body temperatures, came the critical moment.p. 198.9
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