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“We have one play to make a difference, and they have to understand the significance and the criticalness of that particular play. And I think if we can get that across, we’ll play better.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2022

Pig," wrote the gentle essayist Charles Lamb, in phrases ardent as a lover's whisper, "is no less provocative of the appetite, than he is satisfactory to the criticalness of the censorious palate.

From Time Magazine Archive

I could not make you comprehend the criticalness of our position.

From Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium by Bigelow, Glenna Lindsley

Gyp, deeply impressed by the criticalness of the situation, summoned a meeting of the Ravens.

From Highacres by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt

He twanged the strings just over her head, to keep her from hearing, but quite out of tune, he was so agitated with the criticalness of the moment.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various