Word: judgemental
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...nation at large, however, a different verdict is rendered. The most notorious of Jacksonian institutions must be destroyed. However great the senatorial inertia, however difficult the abandonment of old practices, however pleasant the rewarding of loyal friends with the juicy plums of public office, the day of judgement is at hand. Civil service reform has been postponed long enough; the time for action has arrived...
...entrust with this measure of authority. His regime has seldom been called inspired, yet he emerged from office with clean hands, which in Boston may be regarded as somewhat phenomenal. If he returns he will find fewer dollars in the treasury and more mouths to be fed, but the judgement and sound practical sense which he has gained in many years of legal experience seem capable of regulating city expenditures with economy as well as humanity...
...such obviously injudicial temperment, and of such palpable intellectual dishonesty as to dodge slyly away from the only things that the public should have heard last night, is to don the black robe and ascend the highest tribunal in the country and there to sit in judgement with the while robe of his unanswered past fluttering behind...
...long passed the age of frivolity, feels at the velvet ribbon about here wrinkled neck, and then, to call attention to here irritation, rattles here program violently. None are bold enough to glance at their self-assumed chaperone. Instead, a youth in checkered brown pants, and passes judgement: "There, gentlement, is a beauty. Perfect form," Two others are quick to follow his finger: "Where is she, the one in the green coat?" "No, no, over there; sec the lady holding the dog." "She's TERRIBLE!" "The dog you fool; male or female, it's a first-class Irish setter...
...education in America depends upon rigorous courses of study, whether in school or college followed by some sort of tests to indicate the student's grasp of the problems set before him. Though the examinations at the end of a course or field cannot be taken as a final judgement of a man's ability, nevertheless they give an accurate indication of his possibilities for future development. If he is to grow up "not a genius, but an outstanding man in professional life", he is likely to put forth his branches early, and to show his promise by a reasonable...