Word: captiousness
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After these captious criticisms I hesitate to expose myself to counterattack by making positive suggestions on the subject of Harvard's tutorial system. The conditions under which the Harvard and Oxford tutors work are so different that comparisons are not very profitable. The Harvard tutor is not as yet the jealous deity typified by the Oxford tutor, who will have no other gods save him and assumes complete responsibility for the doings of his pupils. The former is therefore in greater danger of being misused as a coach, in order to fill up gaps in knowledge just before the examinations...
...Courtship of Miles Standish. The casual and the captious witness will be decidedly at odds over this portion of Puritan romance. The former, vaguely recalling the sugar coated capsule fed him by a forgotten history teacher, will go in and out delightedly. The latter, unwilling to be betrayed into a display of unpremeditated emotion, will seek feverishly for flaws. Of these there seems to be an abundance. The scenes were rather obviously made in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a Hollywood studio. Priscilla is played by Enid Bennett in her best molasses manner. Even the captious, however, must assent...
...Talking Parrot. The captious critics could not say as cruel things about these three acts, called a play, as the poor audience thought. The "talking parrot" is, like the play, dumb as a wooden Indian...
When there is so much to commend, it is perhaps captious to find anything to criticize. But come complaints there have been which as such deserve attention even if the grounds on which they are based are invalid. Some undergraduates have found fault with the arrangement by which Graduate School one-seat applicants have been seated next to the cheering section and in a better location than the majority of undergraduates. Such an objection is perfectly natural on the part of undergraduates who feel that the center of the field should be reserved for those who are naturally most interested...
...Captious critics will argue that this tardy introduction of the love interest mars the novel. Others will say that the hero lacks fine masculine modesty when he says to Dr. Livingstone, his headmaster: "I am always truthful and I have always taken whatever punishment is coming to me in a manly fashion, I believe...