hypercriticism

• But they were still as death; the mask that had been assumed to shield envy, hypercriticism, and falsehood, there was neither elevation of moral purpose, courage, nor honor, to lay aside. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
• It is this everlasting hypercriticism which spoils all one's pleasure and frightens all the character out of the artists At which Mrs. Stuart laughed, and, woman-like, observed that she supposed it was only people who, like Forbes, had succeeded in disarming the critics, who could afford to scoff at them,--a remark which drew a funny little bow, half-petulant, half-pleased, out of the artist, in whom one of the strongest notes of character was his susceptibility to the attentions of women You've seen her already, I believe,' said Wallace to Forbes. —  Miss Bretherton
• There may be differences of opinion and sentiment, but no acerbity, no hypercriticism, and no exclusiveness. —  The Abominations of Modern Society
• And we can hardly be accused of hypercriticism, in directing the attention of the editors to a sentence like the following, in the article Diptera_, p. 498, 2d col.:--"Though this order contains the bloodthirsty mosquito, the disgusting flesh-fly, and many insects depositing their eggs in the bodies of living animals, it is a most useful one, supplying food to insectivorous birds, and themselves [who? —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
• But they were still as death; the mask that had been assumed to shield envy, hypercriticism, and falsehood, there was neither elevation of moral purpose, courage, nor honor, to lay aside In the mean time, all my correspondents and friends sustained me. —  Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers

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