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Hägglund examines writing by C. S. Lewis, Augustine, and Kierkegaard with a generous captiousness, fair but firmly forensic.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

The captiousness of criticism has usually referred to the style of the preceding authors as a standard from which the prevalent style of its contemporaries has erringly diverged.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

Similar captiousness appears not only in the experience of the individual Christian, but also in the treatment religion gets from the world.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus

The contention of the defendant that he had been "very imperfectly timed" has an air of captiousness.

From Mr. Punch Awheel The Humours of Motoring and Cycling by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

"Trieste, the day before Xmas 1868 "I promised to report if I was alive, and I do so, though, without any captiousness or Gladstonianism, the matter of my vitality might be well open to contention.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund