hypercriticism

• “The pedagogue, it is true, often expressed his disgust at the amusements and antics of the negroes, declaring they were unbecoming human beings and otherwise manifesting that disposition to hypercriticism, which is apt to distinguish one who is only a tyro in his own case.”

  Satanstoe

• “The official Cuban news agency AIN recently accused them of "hypercriticism" and being the latest tool of Cuba's foes.”

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• “I'd give up this line of hypercriticism if I was a GOPer ... it's not going to do yuo any good.”

  McCain: Obama has not changed Washington

• “Often others see the beauty in you while you, conditioned by hypercriticism, see only flaws.”

  Simon & Schuster: True You

• “… It is sheer hypercriticism to deny the substantially Mosaic character of the Pentateuchal tradition.”

  Simon & Schuster: Modern Science in the Bible

• “Many a perfectionist is encouraged into therapy by family members and supervisors to address the problem of anger and hypercriticism.”

  The Huffington Post: Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Cutting the Costs of Perfectionism

• “But it would be hypercriticism, as the tale is told.”

  The Man of Property

• “These are but trivial faults; and if they had not been so easily corrected, it would have been hypercriticism to notice them.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862

• “Not the part of hypercriticism and misconstruction of Northern 'Orders,' and affectionate blindness to”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.

• “The Established folk went on calling the minister of Knox Church "Mr" Drummond long after he was "Doctor" to his own congregation, on account of what they chose to consider the dubious source of the dignity; but the Knox Church people had their own theory to explain this hypercriticism, and would promptly turn the conversation to the merits of the sermon.”

  The Imperialist

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