Inquisitor

How To Use Inquisitor In A Sentence

• It is such a mouth as we can imagine some remorseless inquisitor to have had -- that is, not an inquisitor filled with holy zeal for what he mistakenly thought the cause of Christ demanded, but a spleeny, envious, rancorous shaveling, who tortured men from hatred of their superiority to him, and sheer love of inflicting pain. Andersonville — Volume 1
• The British version depends partly on the audience's playing along with the show's somber, inquisitorial mood.
• For although a continuation of the bullary has just been published at Rome, containing several decrees of this congregation, there is not one that announces a fulfilment of this illusory promise, ” a promise imagined by a correspondent to French newspapers, but never given by the inquisitors themselves. Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
• Well, the inquisitor in our party was curious about the specifics of the policy, and jokingly needled the ranger about the prohibition.
• His position has been carefully isolated as his various Lieutenants have, at last, been subjected to searching cross-examination instead of the toothless gumming meted out by the MSM over the years, something which has demonstrated the high standards of advocacy that are produced by our adversarial system of litigation, though, strictly speaking, an inquest is inquisitorial in nature. Archive 2008-02-10
• And her inquisitor was the so-called 'Birther Bishop', Anabaptist minister Ron McCrae, who is deeply opposed to Obama, and - say critics - cynically set out to trap her. Home | Mail Online
• It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
• Torquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition
• A report was spread that an alcayde was going to land, and that he was in pursuit of the murderers of my lord, the inquisitor. Candide
• It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.