How To Use Judicious In A Sentence

  • But judicious," Natalenko squeaked, in the high eunuchoid voice that came so incongruously from his bulk. Lone Star Planet
  • The curators were judicious in their selection of authors for the exhibition catalogue.
  • Therefore the learning of many languages is injudicious, inasmuch as it arouses the belief in the possession of dexterity, and, as a matter of fact, it lends a kind of delusive importance to social intercourse. Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education
  • The only exciting thing that happened all day was when the top came off the scaffolding tower, unbalanced by about a hundredweight of slate which had been injudiciously stacked all on the same side of its centre of gravity.
  • After some judicious pruning, trim the rootball to size with your shovel and tilt the tree into the hole.
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  • Then, this state of nerves is most frequently to be relieved by care in affording them a pleasant view, a judicious variety as to flowers, * and pretty things. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
  • Low yields are key, as is selecting the right yeast and the judicious use of oak fermentation and ageing. Times, Sunday Times
  • In ordinary life it is rare indeed for people to form their beliefs by a process of logical deduction from facts ascertained by a rigorous search for all available evidence and a judicious assessment of its probative value.
  • Chapter VI. that the use of metallic copper in the construction of acetylene apparatus is not permissible or judicious, because the gas is liable to form therewith an explosive compound known as copper acetylide; it might seem, therefore, that the employment of a copper salt for purification courts accident. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
  • Maybe it is time that Taiwan's intellectuals step forward and launch another newspaper boycott - as was the case 10 years ago when the United Daily News injudiciously printed stories that appeared to be designed to stir up fear in Taiwan.
  • We will get more from our government if the legislative saber is used judiciously. Sound Politics: Why Is Seattle Such a Wuss About Strip Clubs?
  • My sense is that they would be helped in this task by the judicious use of video technology. Times, Sunday Times
  • With more judicious use, you could almost double the battery life. Times, Sunday Times
  • Land revenue, despite its sluggish growth in the past, does hold tremendous promise for augmentation of the State's revenues if handled judiciously and with determination.
  • The first group, wont to judge the parents who believe an occasional, mild, judicious spanking is proper — or the second group, who harshly condemns the parents who truly abuse their child, even to the point ofdeath? The Volokh Conspiracy » The Rhetoric of Opposition
  • His porridge - made with medium oatmeal, not porridge oats - was cooked with half water, half semi-skimmed milk and a judicious dose of salt, his preference being sea-salt crystals.
  • I do not speak from personal experience, for I detest the sweet, cloying stuff; but it occasionally fell to my lot to guide down-stairs the uncertain footsteps of some ventripotent Kommerzien-Rath, or even of Mr. Over-Inspector of Railways himself, both temporarily incapacitated by injudicious indulgence in Swedish Punch. The Days Before Yesterday
  • Some judicious editorial pruning would have made the novel less uneven and the text more taut.
  • This judicious figure surgically exposed the failings of the bank. Times, Sunday Times
  • One thing I learned from the storm is to be more judicious in the use of the term bullish. My perceptions of winter, a review: Part I
  • Getting a Soviet visa took months of lying, subterfuge and the judicious placing of bottles of whisky on appropriate desks in Moscow.
  • Perhaps Shakespeare felt that a judicious tactical retreat following rehearsal criticism was in order, but that does not brand the line a mistake.
  • Judicious use of drugs, supervised individualised treatment, focussed clinical, radiological and bacteriological follow up, use of surgery at the appropriate juncture are key factors in the successful management of these patients.
  • There are risks that some mishap or injudicious remark by a minister might ignite a popular reaction from a volatile electorate.
  • In other words, humour should be neither gratuitous nor excessive, but judicious.
  • They did quarrel finally, about a lead in a doubled hand of no-trumps, but that of course is a thing that no account of judicious guest-grouping could prevent. The Toys of Peace, and other papers
  • No matter how silly the questions, the poor victim must remain charming and keep repeating titillating soundbites, without ever actually being injudicious or displeasing the capricious movie-going masses.
  • Despite the striker conceding that he has been guilty of injudicious comments, he feels hard done by in being considered by some to be an agitator too ready to put his concerns ahead of those of his team.
  • Make wise and judicious use of resources, without waste, but use them; do not allow them to languish untapped.
  • Baker added that Mr. Broder's great strength was the impartiality in his writing - not a splitting of the difference on people and issues, but instead a judiciousness in his analysis of individuals and institutions. David Broder, 81, dies; set 'gold standard' for political journalism
  • the result of an injudicious decision
  • We were both thrilled by the use of swearing, which seemed both judicious and reckless at the same time. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this context, the phrase 'more judicious' is really code for 'let's appease Pakistani sensitivities,' " said a U.S. official. Drone Attacks Split U.S. Officials
  • Great toes, too, of course, "she added judiciously," but those are harder to judge, usually, what wi 'the shoon and all. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • The alleged use of the word 'cheating' appears to have been injudicious, as well as inaccurate; we shall investigate this further. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Dudamel not only has some of the most fluent stick technique I've ever seen — every cue arrives in flawless time as part of a completely natural-seeming choreography, and his repertoire of gestures is huge and judiciously deployed — but is also a terrific conduit for the enormous amount of energy that flows through the group. Boston Latin
  • If so, then judicious quotation from the diaries might have made this point just as well as their wholesale reproduction.
  • So Europe Between the Oceans, at once compelling and judicious, is an extraordinary book. Geography Is Destiny
  • In unforested areas, softening of the visual impact should be achieved through judicious choice of colour scheme and through the planting of shrubs, trees etc as a screen and backdrop.
  • If, on the other hand, it has spread and is affecting more than one species, a combination of vaccination and judicious slaughter of the worst-affected animals is the solution.
  • By judicious use of the more than adequate graphic, a wide variety of sounds can be accessed.
  • The result is evident in the back streets and courtyards, which Atalla judiciously avoids with a foreign visitor.
  • Dr. Mill's view was to accumulate various readings as a promptuary to the judicious and critical reader.
  • Low yields are key, as is selecting the right yeast and the judicious use of oak fermentation and ageing. Times, Sunday Times
  • She didn't think further than that, perhaps due to the injudicious sniffing of the catbalm. SABRIEL
  • an injudicious measure
  • A more judicious approach would be to first do top-down, then goal-service modeling, and finally bottom-up legacy analysis of existing assets.
  • You have a logical, judicious, and pleasant way of expressing yourself and you do so in a straightforward fashion.
  • There was _no_ other monitor who did not try to be of some use to his fags; many of the monitors, by quiet kindnesses and useful hints, by judicious help and unselfish sympathy, were of most real service to the boys who nominally "fagged" for them, but who, in point of fact, were required to do nothing except taking an occasional message, seeing that the study fires did not go out, and carrying up the tea and breakfast for a week each, in order of rotation. St. Winifred's, or The World of School
  • In 1871: "There has been a large increase in the membership, mostly through judiciously conducted protracted meetings and catechization. American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
  • Also, I believe that choosing a condiment is a form of self-expression, and in the context of sandwich eating I express my inner longings through judicious application or withholding of mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, and even barbecue sauce. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Cakes and Cheese
  • Her latest work, Geometry of Quiet, which received its North American premiere, shows Brown in a mood of restrained, judiciously measured eloquence.
  • The weight of the fly wheel can provide so much momentum by being kicked judiciously that it can rotate continuously.
  • The Hebrew uses two different verbs -- 'arar for God's judicial cursing and galal for man's injudicious or blasphemous cursing. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
  • There is nothing, indeed, that makes the judicious grieve more than maladroit flattery, which is as embarrassing to the victim as the clumsy caresses of the horse in the fable who tried to emulate the dog's gambols about his master.
  • It's good management of the game, and to the sportsman's benefit, to crop big game judiciously.
  • Dwayne Bravo (18) was frustrated into an injudicious heave straight to deep cover and Baugh (15) looked to have been trapped plumb in front by Shahid Afridi's googly before being given lbw to the same bowler despite a clear inside edge. Pakistan's Ahmed Shehzad scores century to subdue West Indies
  • In the spring time of the year, the judicious use of aperient medicines is much to be commended.
  • Riff-centric tracks like ‘The Operative’ and ‘Insomnia’ make judicious use of Amphetamine Reptile's back catalog - a satisfyingly untrendy decision.
  • However, in the subsequent rainstorm of denunciations posted on popular websites, there was rarely any judicious analysis.
  • The President authorizes the judicious use of military force to protect our citizens.
  • There must be a judicious mix of capitalism and socialism.
  • His appeal has been to the few rather than the many, to an audience of scholars and of the judicious rather than to the "groundlings" of the general public. Initial Studies in American Letters
  • His memoir of growing up among the Urkas is a mischievous, almost mythological, tale of robberies carried out with honor, of revenge exacted with judiciousness. Here Come the Cops—Steppe on It
  • Librarianship is a profession known for its careful planning and judiciousness.
  • Two such academics were so upset by the broadcast they injudiciously let the cat out of the bag completely.
  • This judicious selection shows how important all three were. Times, Sunday Times
  • Under the judicious application of cooling astringent collyria, and other remediate means, the irritation and pain of the parts were relieved, and the lids somewhat retracted. The Dog
  • And as for going as cook, — though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board — yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; — though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will. Moby Dick; or the Whale
  • I will try if by judicious treatment the 'maundering' may not be made into something worth the hearing. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • All this anointed with a clear, bright, winey gravy, innocent of thickening gloop and judiciously scented with rosemary.
  • And with scrupulous judicious attention. Times, Sunday Times
  • This should look good on TV - and indeed, with judicious use of slow-mo and freeze-frame, it is possible to spot us several times over.
  • II. i.286 (46,8) [This ancient morsel] For _morsel_ Dr. Warburton reads _ancient moral_, very elegantly and judiciously, yet I know not whether the author might not write _morsel_, as we say a _piece of a man_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
  • And so, when he uses the timpani in the Third Symphony, he does so in a judicious manner so that the ‘stressing of focal pitch classes’ is communicated in as comprehensive and explicit way possible.
  • No one seemed to notice but my stunned boyfriend, who had apparently been under the illusion that he was dating a well-brought-up young lady, or at least a judicious one. Let Them Eat Osso Buco
  • Most of the women credit card holders are judicious in using their cards.
  • We were, quite literally, reaping the rewards of ignoring the judicious practice of crop rotation.
  • I never fancied broiling fowls; -- though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will. Moby Dick, or, the whale
  • TYPICAL USE A judicious historian selects and weighs facts carefully and critically.
  • Each comes with its own weakness and strength, and judicious use means knowing how they are compiled. Times, Sunday Times
  • Morren [374] judiciously proposed to keep these two conditions separate, calling the one virescence, the other frondescence (see p. 241). Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • This will give a fillip to the local labour market and encourage people to consume judiciously.
  • Even beetroot and spinach can be rendered palatable with a little juicing and some judicious additions.
  • Experts have warned that injudicious use of the drugs could be seeds of a disaster, possibly in spreading drug-resistant strains of the virus.
  • Kazan's direction judiciously draws on Dunn's still functioning charisma (his character is the best-liked, least-employed man in his neighborhood), his personal history (his character is an alcoholic, whose dreams of becoming a music hall star have collapsed because of his problem) and a new kind of interiority (Dunn needs no dialogue to express his anguish and tragic resolve when, on a fateful Christmas Eve, he looks at his sleeping daughter and realizes he will never be able to give her the education she deserves). NYT > Home Page
  • I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now soarly [sic] feel the want of that information which those hours would have given me had they been judiciously expended. ' 12.03
  • countrywoman" was judicious, and I determined to be governed by it. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
  • In it, prudence is described as an "intelligence capable, by a certain judicious method, of distinguishing good and bad; likewise the knowledge of an art is called Wisdom; and again, a well-furnished memory and experience in diverse matters is termed Wisdom. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • His style is lucid and he emerges as an honest broker who judiciously weighs the historical evidence.
  • But the curse of a most fluent pen, and of a numerous auditory, to whom his words were oracles, was upon him; and seventy volumes, more or less, which Cotta issued from his wareroom, are for the library of the Germans now, and for the selection of judicious editors hereafter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
  • We are fortunate that Chris Waters's Fred Trueman – a thorough and judicious book that does not equivocate over the great Yorkshire and England fast bowler's complexities and sometimes splenetic temperament – is not so tentative. Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi
  • It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up to resist every tendency towards flagging under the weight of inferior food substances.
  • A snarling confrontation, there were far too many injudicious challenges and petty personal squabbles to allow football to flow.
  • The key is single variety wines, labelled by grape name, and the judicious use of oak.
  • Perhaps Shakespeare felt that a judicious tactical retreat following rehearsal criticism was in order, but that does not brand the line a mistake.
  • You can add blocks of highlights with judicious use of fleshy plants. Times, Sunday Times
  • Brett Lee and Glenn McGrath were quickly into their stride, sprinkling bouncers judiciously into some careful line-and-length bowling.
  • Most of our region's gardens can yield abundantly without any rain at all if only we reduce competition for available soil moisture, judiciously fertigate some vegetable species, and practice a few other water-wise tricks. Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
  • Instead I stumbled across a treat, with Kerry O'Keeffe and Terry Alderman idiosyncratically but judiciously analysing Australia's fall from grace and applauding the tourists' mettle and verve. Aussie cricket commentators have been a breath of fresh air on air | Rob Bagchi
  • It is a significantly extended, critically judicious, helpfully annotated edition of an indispensable oeuvre.
  • These were the "file-leaders," the "fugle-men," and "heads of messes;" and it was by a judicious management of these, that he was able to acquire and retain an extensive influence. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
  • We should listen to the judicious opinion of that old man.
  • The excellent results from the method described in the foregoing paragraph has relegated laryngostomy to those cases that come in with a severe cicatricial stenosis from an injudicious laryngofissure; and even in these cases cure of the stenosis as well as the papillomata can usually be obtained by endoscopic methods alone, using superficial scalping off of the papillomata with subsequent laryngoscopic bouginage for the stenosis. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • Until further studies are done, the most judicious advice to parents with a febrile child is to use one antipyretic agent or the other, not an alternating combination.
  • Books take up space, and libraries, being confined by walls, must occasionally weed the shelves of injudicious pamphlets and books unborrowed through the centuries.
  • The first two pretty much sum up Winner's USP - he doesn't buttle these days even if you've won a clutch of Oscars - the very epitome of a wise fool, who knows when to call the shots and when to judiciously ramp up the campery. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Through thoughtful and judicious use of existing finishes, such as by densifying and polishing existing concrete floors, we can all meet today's and tomorrow's needs.
  • They too believed in historic inevitability, but felt it judicious to help history along with a bit with military force.
  • He invested recklessly and injudiciously in schemes that became an ever-increasing drain on his family's savings.
  • He tattled to the governor of Pennsylvania that the general was most judiciously chosen for being disqualified for the service he is employed in in almost every respect. George Washington’s First War
  • At a key moment in his life, he made a judicious investment that was the foundation.
  • So his dresses define the waist, add drama with a train and have buckets of allure thanks to his judicious use of sheer fabrics. Times, Sunday Times
  • But whatever might be their blunders and aukwardness, the sagacious Kieft, declared them to be of but little importance — since, as he judiciously observed, one campaign would be of more instruction to them than a hundred parades; for though two-thirds of them might be food for powder, yet such of the other third as did not run away, would become most experienced veterans. A History of New York
  • The Institute's high-level hockey performance coach, Australian Steve Colledge, has chosen a judicious mix of current internationalists and younger players being prepared for the future.
  • injudiciously" in reporting the problems at Northern Rock, the committee heard. BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
  • At least, the unaired episodes on the DVD give a judicious kick, following through on a nicely drawn story arc.
  • The answer, I found, was meths, and with some judicious prodding with a meths-impregnated brush, I soon had an amorphous bunch of coils on the carpet.
  • Let's use these intelligence tests judiciously.
  • It shocks me that a person who is capable of acting so injudiciously, who behaves in a manner that is so contrary to the interests of the community that he serves, and who advocates for the interests of organizations that are internationally recognized as terrorist, was appointed to a board entrusted to protect Canadians from the very people he appears to be so sympathetic towards. Why was Khaled Mouammar, head of the Canadian Arab Federation, on the refugee board???
  • let's use these intelligence tests judiciously
  • Ah," she said, on a tone judiciously compounded of feminine artlessness and of forthright British candour, and with a play of the eyebrows that attributed her momentary suscitation to the workings of memory, "of course -- Blanchemain. My Friend Prospero
  • I could also hide my skill very dexterously, which is generally found a work of great difficulty, and judiciously winning or losing, I contrived to make it answer my purpose, -- until one day, going to a table which I was very much in the practice of frequenting, and where no one was then engaged, I was invited by a stranger to play. The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2
  • judicious use of one's money
  • I am going to suggest instead that you spend what little money you have wisely on a judicious amount of investment make-up. Times, Sunday Times
  • But right now, as companies hike prices judiciously, most economists are confident that inflation is still under control.
  • I also felt dehydrated by the previous evening which had been dominated by Tej, Ethiopian honey wine, backed up by some injudicious sampling of the local cloudy millet beer.
  • We should listen to the judicious opinion of that old man.
  • A judicious application of hard acrylic fingernail goop (I've never figured out why they paint nails but called it polish) or 'thinned' epoxy glue will build up enough surface to solve most loose-fit problems. News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
  • I cheered for your judiciousness when you left James and Toby behind on the first encounters, and I groaned when you illogically encouraged relationships with them later. Fickle
  • Some peanuts, judiciously scattered, may persuade them to linger for a while more.
  • The Spratly issue is ultimately a litmus test for if, and when, China may act not as an 800-pound gorilla that may do as it pleases, but rather as a responsible member of the international community that exercises discretion and judiciousness in its actions. Daniel Wagner: China's Pre-Imperial Overstretch
  • So his dresses define the waist, add drama with a train and have buckets of allure thanks to his judicious use of sheer fabrics. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hearing them side by side was an education as well as a pleasure and Shelley's judicious summing-up of their stylistic differences revealed much about the 26-year-old Mozart's developing genius.
  • Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Voltaire 
  • Post-war concerns about breed purity became academic as cat fanciers scrambled to make whatever judicious compromises they could in order to insure the survival of their chosen breeds.
  • Each comes with its own weakness and strength, and judicious use means knowing how they are compiled. Times, Sunday Times
  • This judicious selection shows how important all three were. Times, Sunday Times
  • The result is evident in the back streets and courtyards, which Atalla judiciously avoids with a foreign visitor.
  • The next evening, two hampers, containing, as our purveyor assured us, "very prime 'uns," arrived at my rooms "from Mr S----, the wine merchant;" and, by daylight on the following morning, were judiciously distributed throughout all the come-at-able premises within the college walls. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
  • Judicious doses of neuroleptic medication may be required if hallucinations occur.
  • The pureness of whites in some celebrated old pictures is rather to be attributed to a proper method of using, careful preservation of the work, and in many instances to the introduction of ultramarine or a permanent cold colour into the white -- such as plumbago -- helped also by judicious contrast. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • He stressed, however, pressure, if any, must be applied in a judicious way and only when appropriate.
  • By a judicious blow in that spot where the ribs divaricate he could right well tie his adversary into a bow-knot, but this string of white lawn was a most damnable thing. The Place of Honeymoons
  • When a reviewer is as considered and judicious as this, I have no problem with some sour mixed up with the sweet. A Question of Agents ...
  • FYI — ‘David Austin’ will grow up to 8′ tall and wide, although some judicious pruning can keep it in shrub form. ‘Graham Thomas’ voted world’s favorite rose « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
  • As that episode showed, Chelsea have been stripped of their judiciousness. Manchester United 2-1 Chelsea (agg 3-1) | Champions League match report
  • He argued that the Department of Justice was "jumping the gun", and that Justice Minister Dullah Omar had acted "injudiciously" by pressing for immediate representivity within the Department of ANC Daily News Briefing
  • With judicious editing and good music, suddenly you can seem like a star on the screen.
  • With a little judicious editing, the book could have reached a larger audience than the academic one for which it is destined. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The time has come for you to use your right of franchise and use it judiciously.
  • There's been any number of outstanding, occasionally even great, starting rotations, though rating them is injudicious, if not entirely invalid.
  • What about rearranging the banner, with the judicious use of scissors, to form another phrase or saying? Times, Sunday Times
  • puddler," the untrained, undeveloped "tiger-man," heated by a quart or two above his usual measure, comes home and kicks his irritating and injudicious wife to death. The House of Souls
  • I think it would be injudicious and unwise for the Florida legislature to go ahead and certify these electors until we know precisely whether or not we can go ahead and count every vote.
  • While I by no means wish to draw attention away from the growing revival of classical and Gothic church architecture, a judicious renewal of some varieties of Jugendstil art and architecture in an ecclesiastical context would establish a foundation for the development of a practical, beautiful new style that is nonetheless anchored in organic tradition in a way that most "contemporary" styles are not. Jugendstil
  • The young baronet, who now, though still entitled to be called young, was disfigured by the premature defeatures of a vicious life, mistrusted it all the more, when, on visiting the old hall, he was forced to recognize the improvements effected in the neighbouring property (that he should be forced to call it "_neighbouring_!") by the judicious administration of the new owner. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
  • What redeemed his venomous ferocity was the gusto with which he wrote about the shows he did like—and there were plenty of them—as well as the judiciousness with which he weighed the merits of serious plays about which he had mixed feelings. He Knew What He Liked—Not Much
  • Its broad conclusion is that there need be no great damage to Scotland's economic well-being if disengagement from England were handled judiciously.
  • I have been very judicious about the interviews that I have agreed to do through the years.
  • Less happily, John's grandfather had, in 1860, felt an injudicious urge for grandeur on a larger scale. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • Yet I had often revolved the judicious lines in which Pope answers the objections of his longsighted friend: Memoirs of My Life and Writings
  • You know, when you read a story now, Michael, you find a little bit more journalistic judicious carefulness in the presentation of the story.
  • Having numerous perspectives from informed members of the community will allow for an educated dialogue and, ultimately, a judicious decision.
  • She didn't think further than that, perhaps due to the injudicious sniffing of the catbalm. SABRIEL
  • The king continues to disparage and asperse all sober and judicious reflections upon that royal paper, by charging upon them the unjust and reproachful character of sinistrous interpretations.
  • For more judicious control over the order in which the files in a title play, right-click on the title and select Properties, and reorder the tracks using the up and down buttons.
  • You can add blocks of highlights with judicious use of fleshy plants. Times, Sunday Times
  • All one needs to do is a little judicious planning and research before heading there.
  • An "ideal" BMI sufferer putting on a few pounds of muscle by doing some judicious exercise might well stave off death for a bit longer; simply gorging on cakes probably won't help. recent calls for a BMI tax are now further exposed as foolishness, and the "fat people" that he rashly proposes to attack with a stick (any time, Coren - better make it a big stick*) have the consolation of knowing that they'll probably outlive him. The Register
  • The first two pretty much sum up Winner's USP - he doesn't buttle these days even if you've won a clutch of Oscars - the very epitome of a wise fool, who knows when to call the shots and when to judiciously ramp up the campery. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The President authorizes the judicious use of military force to protect our citizens.
  • This judicious figure surgically exposed the failings of the bank. Times, Sunday Times
  • He may not have seen me watching him, but through some judicious neck-craning I watched the waiter prepare a truly disgusting brew that wasn't helped by the addition of semi-skimmed milk.
  • I am going to suggest instead that you spend what little money you have wisely on a judicious amount of investment make-up. Times, Sunday Times
  • The excellent results from the method described in the foregoing paragraph has relegated laryngostomy to those cases that come in with a severe cicatricial stenosis from an injudicious laryngofissure; and even in these cases cure of the stenosis as well as the papillomata can usually be obtained by endoscopic methods alone, using superficial scalping off of the papillomata with subsequent laryngoscopic bouginage for the stenosis. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • It is when he moves to a higher level of argument that Ricks loses his judiciousness.
  • But yet let mee tell thee withall, that I knowe my Lord to be wise and judicious, and having committed all his affaires to my care and trust: never blame mee to misdoubt, least my Ladie (by his counsell and advice) make thee the messenger of this motion, therby to call my Fidelitie in question. The Decameron
  • It is a careful, judicious, moderate way forward proposed by a man who knows about war.
  • Through a judicious use of artifacts and archival photographs, Ms. Paul successfully creates conversations among the objects and what she calls "layers of opportunities within the installation. A Tibetan Study Reborn
  • He recognises, however, that it would be politically injudicious to speak of leaving just after having secured a mandate.
  • Hence lots of Proms repeats, but the judicious choices are all worth hearing again. Times, Sunday Times
  • His ideas were quaint and fantastic . She brought him judiciously to earth.
  • White phosphorous is a legitimate military tool, but U.S. forces have been highly judicious about using it to avoid harming civilians, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Pentagon reporters Nov. 29. Balloon Juice » 2005 » November
  • Rather, they idealistically tend to believe that we should use our unparalleled military power judiciously and in concert with the United Nations.
  • It judiciously employs evidence from extensive research combined with fair evaluations.
  • But there is a road on the right of the hill be - fore you, called the Laodicean new road, which cannot but be approved by every judicious and discreet person. The pilgrimage of Theophilus to the City of God
  • We must even be judicious when hiking though the outback, where objects sometimes call out for rescue.
  • But increasingly, what many discriminating moviegoers want is a more judicious use of visual effects
  • Quotations judiciously chosen will support and amplify your point, but they require interpretation.
  • The President authorizes the judicious use of military force to protect our citizens.
  • The overall presentation is straightforward, the placing and lighting are thoughtful and judicious.
  • But the judicious placement of plants - a strawberry tree in the planter and several liquidambars screening a corner - makes the space surprisingly private.
  • Boosterism is a besetting sin of second cities, even of their most learned and judicious partisans. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Less happily, John's grandfather had, in 1860, felt an injudicious urge for grandeur on a larger scale. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • His strategy in Iraq and Iran was judicious, deliberate, unhasty -- and certain. emphasis mine Archive 2003-04-01
  • I listen not to the country people telling it was experimented by a goose, which was put in and came out again with _life_ (though without feathers); but hearken seriously to those who judiciously impute the _subsidency_ of the earth in the interstice aforesaid to some underground hollowness made by that water in the passage thereof. Highways and Byways in Surrey
  • Students and fledgling writers are constantly warned away from adjectives and told to give their writing strength and sinew with judiciously chosen nouns and verbs.
  • And shall only take notice of such whose experimental and judicious knowledge shall be employed, not to traduce or extenuate, but to explain and dilucidate, to add and ampliate, according to the laudable custom of the ancients in their sober promotions of learning. Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation
  • Often, of course, it's judicious fixing of the director's first attempt that saves a turkey, or elevates it from being tolerable to something rather better.

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