stricture

How To Use stricture In A Sentence

• In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.
• These tracts heed the critical strictures against both love and wit.
• It is Faur's contention that the Kabbalist rabbis, seen through the filter of the vertical model, transform the Talmudic tradition -- based on a pluralistic dialogue and formal legal strictures -- into an occult hermeticism creating a Judaism that is sealed off from critical reading and rational science. David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist
• Peggy tells her that what she has done goes against the EE stricture of "it's all abaht faaaahmlee". Gem Watch - Eastenders
• But their conduct was equally constrained by codes - a mixture of religious strictures and the social cant that went with it. Times, Sunday Times
• My emotions manage to squeeze a few tears past the imposed strictures of my society, but most of my grief only pounds wrathfully against generations of parents telling sons that ‘big boys don't cry.’
• We have advocated initial endoscopic stenting for bile duct strictures after open cholecystectomy.
• The behemoth of Lothian Road is visibly swinging around to meet the strictures of the stock market.
• Those same strong students (one hopes) will ultimately supercede the strictures imposed in the educational studio, but at what cost?
• Above these there is a vocal line so free and continuous that the strictures imposed by the repetition of the bass are scarcely felt.