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  • You can be bored, scared, hypercritical, injured by a mascara wand or half-asleep, and nobody will be any the wiser.
  • Why should anyone care if Hollywood occasionally forgets to be hypercritical about American history?
  • Tom Meltzer Shortcuts, G2, 26 May is hypercritical and probably doesn't spend much time in kitchens. Letters: Kitchen cabinets
  • Their pride, anger, and hypercritical attitude made them far more unclean than the disciples.
  • I was really hypercritical and baffled about not knowing that to do with the I way I sounded.
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  • They are nit-pickers with low emotional intelligence and zero creativity — maladaptive perfectionists, hypercritical passive-aggressives, all-or-nothing thinkers. Times, Sunday Times
  • It may occur to some hypercritical person to suggest that the English language has frequently been murdered in my den, and that it is its horrid corse which is playing havoc at my home, crying out to heaven and flaunting its bloody wounds in the face of my conscience, but I can pass such an aspersion as that by with contemptuous silence, for even if it were true it could not be set down as wilful assassination on my part, since no sane person who needs a language as much as I do would ever in cold blood kill any one of the many that lie about us. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
  • You sometimes have to force yourself to be nitpicking, faultfinding, caviling, hypercritical. The Fiddler in the Subway
  • Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry. Frank Lloyd Wright 
  • A perfect game of golf has never been played, but he was hypercritical.
  • And here I was, hypercritical as ever, wondering if I really wanted him to go after Amy again.
  • Some are hypercritical, dwelling only on their mistakes.
  • He arrived with unbelievable natural talent and athleticism, yet he was still hypercritical of himself.
  • I suppose it was hypercritical of me to say, after everything I had done, everything we had been through over the past months.
  • If I come out of the gate as some kind of hypercritical harpy, and people think my work stinks, my career's over before it even began. Flying Chairs
  • Party loyalty is dividing this country and turning us into hypercritical idiots who can't focus on what's important. Huckabee warns Palin: Don't leave GOP
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  • Moore's brief doesn't understand this, and so it ends up making silly, hypercritical arguments.
  • When not hypercritical, women often deny that there's any truth to female intra-gender cruelties.
  • Arthur, even with the sometimes hypercritical nature of Ray's lyrics, is simply an album of wondrous moments.
  • ‘It's all hypercritical when you think about,’ he adds.
  • Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry. Frank Lloyd Wright 
  • And what is permissible in the hypercritical eyes of other parents? Times, Sunday Times
  • But Johnson thinks citizens are being hypercritical of the police to deflect attention from themselves.
  • I read in one of your answers how it only makes things worse to be hypercritical.
  • As we grow increasingly self-righteous and hypercritical, we stumble into the ‘martyr trap.’
  • With the culture awash with Barbie doll ideals of beauty, adolescent girls take a hypercritical look at their developing bodies and judge themselves to be too short, too tall, too fat, too busty, too plain, etc.
  • Women who felt abandoned by their fathers are likely to choose emotionally unavailable husbands, for example, and men raised by hypercritical moms will be drawn to wives who pick on them, he says.
  • People suffering from the Lake Wobegon Effect are hypocritical and hypercritical. John B. Townsend II: The Lake Wobegon Effect and the Cell Phone Ban
  • A Gemini Moon also tends to make these natives hypercritical.
  • Finally, like so many millions of Cubans, they had been content to make no further comments contrary to the triumphalist slogans, to ensure they would not be put in the "hypercritical" category and perhaps be taken as dissidents. Yoani Sanchez: Where a Simple Suggestion Equals Dissent
  • This is awards season and we all need our rest so we can come up with witty, hypercritical things to say about the dresses that far more famous and attractive people get to wear on red carpets. Golden Globes 2011: Your lingering questions answered
  • You love the fact that an extensive and excessive vetting process provides the media and yourselves with little tidbits on which to latch your lamprey-like hypercritical mouths. Clinton again rips into vetting process
  • Scheiner, and Secchi are famous as astronomers; Athanasius Kircher was a polyhistor in the best sense of the term; Hardouin, though frequently hypercritical and eccentric, was a most acute critic and in many ways far in advance of his age; Petavius was the father of the historical treatment of dogma and a leader in chronology; and the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • A young teenage girl often becomes hypercritical of her mum-and knows exactly how to hit her weak spots.
  • However, I don't want be hypercritical and only point out the problem.
  • As a singer, I'm always hypercritical of other singers (and myself, too - perhaps even more), so it takes a hell of a lot to impress me. Put David Tennant's Well Worn Lips To Use
  • Brooks’ coaching style was hypercritical and merciless, overworking his players to the point that they vomited blood.
  • You can be bored, scared, hypercritical, injured by a mascara wand or half-asleep, and nobody will be any the wiser.
  • Their opinions are often hypercritical before they become paranoid and delusional. Times, Sunday Times
  • How can they be so hypercritical regarding democratic rights?
  • Faced with an audience of hypercritical opera fans, Fillion's infamous set of planks known as "the monster" has drawn plenty of criticism. George Heymont: Totem -- An Artistic Triumph for Cirque du Soleil

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