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"censorious" Definitions
  1. tending to criticize people or things a lot
"censorious" Synonyms
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It too often bowed to a poisonous and censorious multiculturalism.
Appointed in October 2017, Gholami enforces and defends this censorious system.
If the platforms are worried about liability ... They'll become more censorious.
President Xi's censorious attitude to gambling has hit Macau's gambling tycoons hard.
When compelled, a few might issue censorious statements or tweet their concerns.
It seemed meant to make the school look censorious, but it failed.
Melville had to listen to the drivel of censorious critics such as Horace
In all these cases censorious governments cite similarly worded Western laws as precedents. Enough.
But the EBU has made it clear that it won't stand for censorious cherrypicking.
Thus, the censorious urge is as counterproductive as it is contrary to civil liberties.
But his "Pinocchio" is less didactic and censorious than the film and the novel.
Many of these countries also appear on Freemuse's list of the 10 most censorious nations.
It's hard to keep track of where one censorious tantrum ends and the next begins.
The most censorious governments follow a familiar pattern of suppressing the media and locking up dissenters.
More troublingly, the videos were often flagged for reasons that seemed unfair, unclear, or outright censorious.
The youth belong to "Generation Wuss," and liberals are now so censorious they have become illiberal.
He has been doing a delicate dance around the president: supportive one moment, censorious the next.
Thus, a less censorious competitor would still have trouble attracting users without a large user base.
Legalising abortion was the defining defeat of the old order—censorious, hypocritical, male—in post-war France.
If your approach is simply condescending or censorious, the ratio of hurt to learning will be high.
In England critics see universities as hotbeds of anti-Brexit provocation and places where censorious students stifle debate.
Courbet's infamous painting is hardly the only work to run afoul of Facebook's censorious algorithms and content scanners.
Many of the censorious open letters that have been signed by academics in recent years share three important features.
The infamously censorious Chinese government really doesn't like its citizens being reminded of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
One that inspires a censorious moral panic — you know you've really made it when you trigger a moral panic.
To the extent that your attitude toward him is mainly censorious, he simply won't want to be around you.
Experts suggest that they should offer better sex education, easier access to contraception and medical care that is not censorious.
I'm arguing against a constant aghast (but not really), scandalized (but not quite), censorious (but titillated) rehashing of Trump's tantrums.
Censorious authoritarians elsewhere often cite Mr Trump's catchphrases, calling critical reporting "fake news" and critical journalists "enemies of the people".
It's OK to care about #freemilo, or find another platform that's less apparently censorious, but don't pretend you're Joan of Arc.
By the time Toews was born, in 1964, shunning was no longer official practice, but the atmosphere remained oppressive, nosy, censorious.
In our censorious times, that battle and the extremes through which it is depicted are enough to keep the pages turning.
Mr. Bayes called such commedia stylized, codified, desperate — though there is a kindness about him, and he sounded sympathetic, not censorious.
Previously, the media has criticized Netsweeper for providing similar services to censorious countries like Pakistan, Quatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
Newer strongmen, such as Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's blood-soaked president, and Viktor Orban, Hungary's illiberal prime minister, have also flexed censorious muscles.
Turkey is well-known as a censorious country when it comes to freedom of speech online, and the platforms that facilitate it.
If you really allude to it or try to be visually censorious with it you're on the road to making Pretty Women.
But the actor seems to find that more forgivable than the hypocrisy of censorious, coke-snorting Americans, whose demand stokes the violence.
Young Americans are less likely to favour unfettered free speech than their elders are, but they are less censorious than young Europeans.
It's what grade-school students were once required to do: situps, pull-ups and such in front of censorious, fat-shaming peers.
His censorious nature boiled over this week when his security detail viciously attacked protesters on Tuesday outside the Turkish embassy in Washington.
Born in Zundert in The Netherlands in 21888, he was the eldest son of a censorious reverend in the Dutch Reformed Church.
Censorious matrons are heard gossiping and lamenting about women who do not marry or produce progeny, or think too much of themselves.
Others say they are based in the United States or the Cayman Islands but actually operate out of countries with censorious governments.
Now Trump rises, with a dirty slate and some absurd ideas, and probably not because voters have truly abandoned their sexually censorious ways.
I would also guess that the number has only grown as the censorious left has become more aggressive and promiscuous in its condemnations.
The loss for the former is largely economic, but for citizens of censorious countries, losing access to a major communications platform can be devastating.
On the other hand, critics point out, YouTube's policies have had a censorious effect on vital content, particularly videos emerging from the Syrian battleground.
When Clinton, Cruz, Priebus, and all the rest condemn the violence at his rallies, they look like the censorious tyrants he says they are.
According to Hickey, beauty, once the handmaiden of art, had been sacrificed on the altar of political correctness by a censorious ring of tenured apparatchiks.
The secret identification and and automated blocking of extremist speech would raise new, serious questions about the cooperation of private corporations with censorious governmental interests.
In fact, the male character in "Miss Grief" may not represent what Rioux calls the "male literary elite" as much as Woolson's own censorious side.
Publishing, journalism, TV… all lie supine beneath the crowing, cackling, censorious battle-axes, male and female, of the third-wave feminist and social justice causes.
One that takes both sides of the aisle to task for their censorious instincts, and for petitioning authority figures to protect their sensibilities from discomfort.
Davið Oddsson, with swept-back silver-gray hair and a sombre expression, looked, I thought, too censorious, like a Norwegian playwright of the nineteenth century.
Social media is starting to become a strange mix of the abrasive and the censorious, of which the CNN wrestling story is a rather good illustration.
After Saramago died in 2010, PEN America — an organization explicitly dedicated to protecting free expression — paid him fulsome tribute, with no mention of his censorious past.
Elliot Jerome Brown Jr. captivates with his arresting "Devin in Red Socks" (2016), another censorious photo where the subject's body is blocked by something — here, a towel.
And the wagging, censorious tongues of Lorca's townsfolk are replaced by the all-too appropriately named trolls who lie in wait in dark corners of the internet.
The situation demands that we make it clear, once and for all, that we will not set aside our liberty or our sovereignty for any foreign censorious goon.
Waiting as long as he did to assume the throne from his indomitable, censorious mother, Queen Victoria, Edward made it his prime quest in life to be amused.
His entourage gathered around the book for a long moment, until Mr. Boyega wrinkled his nose and ran a censorious finger along the image of his untidy hairline.
The closest precedent for this kind of censorious misuse of congressional rules was the House of Representatives' use of the so-called Gag Rule, between 1836 and 1844.
He also heard, with frequency, from accomplished people in predominantly liberal industries — entertainment, tech, academia, fashion, and media — who resented what they felt was a censorious coastal cultural orthodoxy.
For the sake of the Jeremy Kyle analogy, Jose Mourinho was the censorious chat show host, Fisher the bewildered stooge being forced to take an awkward public paternity test.
Still, to current and former staffers, the scrubbing of the Mouw and Graves-Fitzsimmons columns became an example of censorious overreach by an inexperienced publisher and an overzealous board.
This, I think, is why the language of the draft is both so abstracted—knights and knaves, leaders and felons who just haven't offended yet—and so wildly, weirdly censorious.
The sisters' relationship is tense and competitive; Alexia veers between supporting Justine and lashing out at her more censorious attitude to their disability (for it seems medical, from the start).
Trump's supporters, judging from the venom with which they refer to "political correctness," perceive the network of state, local and federal anti-discrimination laws and directives as censorious and coercive.
The critique from conservatives, in contrast, casts the big tech companies as censorious and oppressive, all too eager to stifle right-wing content in an effort to mollify liberal critics.
Sorry also that your hiring as a writer for The Atlantic has set off another censorious furor in media circles when surely there are more important subjects on this earth.
That tech companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, which have historically done everything in their power to avoid making overly censorious decisions, have signed on seems to suggest they agree.
In "Insurrecto," she exhumes this episode to conduct a ferocious, censorious and, yes, comic assault on received ideas about history and heroism, art and exploitation, and the ethics of narrative.
Perhaps the censorious tone is exaggerated by the translation from the German original, but I was left wondering whether Brunner actually likes birds, bird people, or even people in general.
A familiar fairy tale receives a playful rewrite when the husband-and-wife theatermakers Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser fight giants in the sky and the censorious down below.
The critique from conservatives, in contrast, casts the Big Tech companies as censorious and oppressive, all too eager to stifle right-wing content in an effort to mollify liberal critics.
But China's cultural commissars, rarely open-minded at the best of times, have been in an unusually censorious mood since 2014, when President Xi Jinping stressed that art must "serve socialism".
Millennials are cast as lazy, coddled, and censorious, thus the supposed proliferation of "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" on college campuses and the push for better labor conditions in the workplace.
It's important to note, however, that they are also invaluable for people seeking some degree of anonymity online or a way to access the wider internet in censorious countries like China.
Chapters seven and eight of Kaufmann's book are dedicated to attacking the social justice left, blaming their overly censorious definition of "racism" for helping produce the rise of the far right.
One character thinks nothing of buying a pair of earrings for more than $1m, before scurrying home and ordering a team of servants to hide her purchases from her censorious husband.
As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported last month, the Good Food Institute, proprietor of plant-based meat alternatives, has argued that implementing such a move within Missouri would be censorious.
At the time, the platform was facing criticism for what many believed to be overly censorious content policies, most notably a decision to ban breastfeeding photos which had only recently been reversed.
In truth, the line that separates the desire for recognition and the less noble sorts of aspiration is often blurry — as Ozick herself is prepared, in her less censorious moments, to admit.
Kaufmann is part of a broader tendency of Western writers and thinkers to view the far right as a reaction to a deeper problem: censorious political correctness and intolerant social justice activists.
And though it often results in dropped calls, Ms. Kandel's character, identified as Duppy Mary (who turns out be Seacole's censorious mother) will eventually get through for a blistering moment of reckoning.
However just two months into the three-year fellowship, I found myself the subject of a censorious open letter (signed by over 500 academics), which claimed that my academic work was "racist pseudoscience".
He asks if there are people with a similar background in the audience, and proceeds with anecdotes — about schoolteacher nuns and priests, both censorious and inspirational — he presumes will be familiar to them.
As on every other front of Bannon's multipronged narrative war against liberal culture, the goal was to paint the company as failing, hypocritical, out of touch, and in thrall to censorious social justice warriors.
Like any good comms person, he tried to gently push reporters towards stories where Twitter was still the good guy—standing up to censorious foreign governments, resisting abusive copyright notices, protecting users from hackers.
Observers within and outside the company objected that Dragonfly would be a compromise of Google's purported values, and would only be used as a stick to beat the company with by other censorious regimes.
Many of the provisions in the call to action like "development of industry standards or voluntary frameworks" or "cross-industry efforts" to share information to block coordinated attacks seem far more organizational than censorious.
Enter Wintrich, a gay conservative outsider, who is proclaiming that the art world is a censorious place that is hypocritical for being less open to conservative positions that discriminate against LGBTQ, female, and minority bodies.
An exception was one in The New York Times, whose reviewer, Judith Martin, found the books' tone "censorious," and said that Ms. Morris had put a negative spin on anecdotes that could have been benign.
Rather than make web purveyors into censorious agents of the state it gets at the problem directly by criminalizing the use of the web "with the intent" to promote or facilitate prostitution or sexual trafficking.
A mix of appreciations and censorious assessments is in order, and it's very much arguable that the first wave of takes on Bush, including one that I wrote for The Times, tilted excessively toward the complimentary.
But as Xiomara wrestles to embrace her independence and nascent sexuality in the face of a censorious, extremely religious mother, The Poet X eventually reveals itself as a rhythmic literalization of a young woman finding her voice.
What seem like nonsense syllables to the uninitiated are in fact the ululating cries, known as the ololyga, that ancient Greek women would shout during female-centric rituals, hidden from the censorious eyes and ears of men.
Considering the censorious proclivities of the president and his supporters, it is all the more important that those who oppose him be consistent in defending the principle that freedom of speech is sacrosanct, for all of us.
The protagonists in "Angels in America" are confronted not only by homophobia and self-destruction but also by their own natures, by love's power and love's failure, by censorious religions and callous politicians, by racism and classism.
He could make a virtue of the defect by emphasizing his distance from everything that defines the worst aspects of millennial culture — the coddled minds and censorious manner and inability to understand the way the world works.
P24, a platform for independent journalism in Turkey, earned the judges attention for their pro bono legal work defending journalists and academics who are on trial for exercising their right to free expression in the notoriously censorious country.
The president held a summit at the White House on Thursday with representatives from the video game industry, lawmakers from both parties, and leaders of censorious conservative organizations like the Media Research Council and the Parents Television Council.
" Another paper put it this way: "An old maid is one of the most cranky, ill-natured, maggoty, peevish, conceited, disagreeable, hypocritical, fretful, noisy, gibing, canting, censorious, out-of-the-way, never-to-be-pleased, good-for-nothing creatures.
As Sarah Wise, author of one of the new book's contextualising essays, puts it, these notes are "a compendium of anxieties" held by the well-off about the working classes, censorious judgment mixing with compassion in a characteristically Victorian way.
Cindy Cohn: They become more censorious, they limit what you can do, and again, Tumblr has just decided that ... Again, I think it ... Cindy Cohn: Female-presenting nipples are a problem, like this is the kind of stuff you get.
These can be read as mindscapes as much as landscapes, seemingly populated by elements of Yuskavage's psyche: Her id-like nymphets bump up against censorious, finger-wagging brigades of peasant women and occasionally men — hapless tourists who have wandered into the wide shot.
First, there are critics who fret that the discussion of predation at its heart is overly puritanical: a sex panic, as Masha Gessen would have it, on the part of censorious prudes who would forbid so much as a flirtatious glance between colleagues.
"If @YouTube is now going to police insulting speech -- not violent speech, not incitement, not actual fake news -- because a virulently censorious, radical activist masquerading as a journalist complains about being insulted, they're a joke," the commentator Ben Shapiro wrote on Twitter.
And so they expressed those opinions quietly, secretly, to Breitbart provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos: He also heard, with frequency, from accomplished people in predominantly liberal industries — entertainment, tech, academia, fashion, and media — who resented what they felt was a censorious coastal cultural orthodoxy.
Born in San Francisco in 231, Mr. Saul had, by his own account, a materially privileged but punishing childhood, first as the offspring of hyper-censorious parents, then as a student at a boarding school where physical beatings were not considered abuse.
It's visible in the forays made by Missouri's new Republican senator, Josh Hawley, who has incited small uproars by imposing sharper abortion and religious-liberty litmus tests than usual on the Trump administration's judicial nominees, and by taking an explicitly censorious stance toward Silicon Valley.
If you haven't read "Nana" — or, even more so, if you have and are hungering for a less censorious, more deeply researched and respectful biography of the 19th-century French courtesan on whom that novel by Zola is partly based — this book is for you.
The Mets, or at least the voluble and censorious and perma-pissy Anonymous Team Sources that are quickest to comment on this stuff, are not about letting shit go; they start it because they cannot help but start it, and everything that follows is inevitable in the same way gravity is.
The repudiation of racist expression had an unintended consequence, however, for liberalism and for much of the Democratic Party: an almost censorious set of prohibitions against discussion of family structure among the black poor, absent fathers, crime, lack of labor force participation, welfare dependency, illegitimacy and other contentious race-freighted issues.
These four are also a tool for promoting discord in the Democratic ranks, because as the recent feud between them and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demonstrated, plenty of their fellow Democrats find them too fantastically idealistic, too censorious of those who disagree with them, too quick to play the race card, too much.
This is how the article ended: Ms. Shriver described the festival's response as "not very professional," and, at a later appearance at the festival, said she was disturbed by how many of those on the political left had become what she described as censorious and totalitarian in their treatment of artists with whom they disagreed.
Vicki and Justin wondered what it would be like to bring up a nonwhite child in Sioux County, and Vicki wondered, too, if she wanted to raise any kind of kid in the blinkered and censorious atmosphere of Orange City, which she was now even more conscious of than she had been growing up.
The Freemuse report foregrounds how artists in Turkey associated with the illegal Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), or the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), have all come under threat, leading to a widespread culture of censorship and repression in the country, which remains one of the most censorious in the world.
One of the most combative conversations around appropriation and exchange in the last year revolved around the novelist and self-proclaimed iconoclast Lionel Shriver, who caused a stir in September after appearing at a writers' festival wearing a sombrero and lamenting the effect of "identity politics" and its potentially censorious influence on literature, experimentation and creativity.
Already frustrated and concerned by the decline of reading, the rise of television, and the censorious efforts of anti-communist politicians, Bradbury turned his anger over the encounter with the cop into a dystopian short story called "The Pedestrian," then into the novella "The Fireman," and finally into Fahrenheit 451 — a cautionary tale about a future where government goons burn books and punish citizens who read.
I'd want someone who could lay claim to being a trailblazer and reap some of the excitement that comes from that; someone who couldn't be tarred as a Washington insider; someone who was effortlessly fluent in, and respectful of, religion without buying into the divisively censorious strains of it; someone whose message and style weren't instantly familiar facsimiles of previously successful candidates; someone who radiated the kind of thoughtfulness that's foreign to Trump.
Among Jigsaw's products and research projects are Project Shield, a free service to stop distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks; Outline, a controversial VPN for people who live under censorious regimes that's used by 50,000 people, according to a source with knowledge of the product; a tool to automatically moderate comments and a hate-speech-fighting AI that can spot "toxic" comments that's used by The New York Times; and a program to steer people away from violent extremist content called the Redirect Method.
When her books are taken away from her and later returned, mangled by censorious black pens and mauled by the removal of pages, and when her parents' influence leads to the censorship of the school library and the development of a cadre of young censors, June is thrust into the role of the "rebel librarian," building an underground library in the locker beside her own, and leading an ever-enlarging group of students into a literary revolution against the school administration and, by proxy, her parents.
Similarly, white men — who backed Trump 62-31, according to exit polls — feel far more oppressed by what they view as censorious political correctness than any other demographic group, according to P.R.R.I. Asked to choose between two statements – "Even if certain people are offended, it is important to speak frankly about sensitive issues and problems facing the country" and "It's important to avoid using language that is hurtful and offensive to some people when discussing sensitive issues" – white men chose "speak frankly" 69-27, a larger margin than any other group.

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