scrutinies
- plural of scrutiny.
Example Sentences
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In the late 1920s, his close analysis of a Shakespeare sonnet impressed Critic William Empson and led, indirectly, to the textual scrutinies of the New Criticism of the 1940s and '50s.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tellingly, Maritain notes what too many U.S. literary critics have ignored: that "American literature, in its most objective scrutinies, has been preoccupied with the beyond and the nameless which haunt our blood."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was, in fact, one of those momentary scrutinies which are at once complete and definite.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
Only in that city of easy companionships and careless social scrutinies would such a sudden rise have 147 been possible.
From The Readjustment by Irwin, Will
The long probation called “abstinence” which led up to it is a survival of the primitive catechumenate with its scrutinies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
