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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

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

“I thank you, madam,” said “Buffalo” Westabrook, bending on her one of his piercing scrutinies.

From Maida's Little Shop by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

But then I had not enough money to buy it, and I could not face the raising of a mortgage—the possible scrutinies!

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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