Word: judgemental
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...placate, no flickering reputation to blow into a flame, and no disingenuous criticism to fear. And then there is that twinkle of the eye, that ability to "see things steadily and see them whole", which precludes his ever entering into the hurly-burly of purely temporary arenas. Critical judgement has long since discovered and frequently used the word which best describes his writings; it is the word "universal...
...Carlyle's "labor"; Emerson's "instincts"; the desire of Arnold for "true and fresh ideas"; all these find a brave echo here. Even to so materialistic a theme as "Criticism in American-Periodicals", can such principles be applied-the principles of clear-sighted and unshaken adherence to faith and judgement. Nor are these principles held in the light of a sort of rule-of-thumb panacea, to be applied indiscriminately and with the joy of recent discovery; but rather as the proven standards of better men and better ages which we have for the time being allowed to lapse into...
However a scrimmage under weather conditions such as those prevailing yesterday indicates but little as to the true ability of the team. The sun, a dry field, and a hard day's scrimmage are all necessary before one can pass competent judgement on the team...
...motor, the movie and the radio, which with freedom of locomotion, novel and easy intimacies, and the everpresent and constantly expanding enterprise of the press give us a delusive facility in acquiring information. It is the day of fleeting vision. Concentration, thoroughness, the quiet reflection that ripens the judgement are more difficult than ever...
...does it will be pretty thoroughly threshed out. The proposition is by no means so simples as it seems. Consider the difficulty of securing the services of a sufficient member of men of the proper calibre for such work. They would have to be of mature judgement and whole have to be of mature judgement and wide knowledge within their own field. The cost of obtaining such men would be very large indeed. Certain members of the division are not yet convinced that the results would justify the outlay...