John Dryden considered "the great as entitled to encomiastic homage, " wrote a censorious Samuel Johnson.

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Not that Mr Gay defends the contemporary notion of Victorian values: censorious prudery or embarrassed euphemisms.

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The backlash was censorious, strict in its views on the family and personal morality, and predominantly suburban.

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Mr Cameron enables the party to take conservative positions on social and cultural issues without sounding censorious.

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The reaction in the UK to this decision was swift and censorious.

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If Mr Blair thinks that people are being too censorious about his new chum, a few minutes spent on Mr Desmond's main website might change his mind.

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But if the right lessons are learned by all involved, there is less reason to despair than Indonesia's censorious editorial writers would have the nation, and the world, believe.

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In the process the Tory party ended up sounding censorious about single parents, thereby getting on the wrong side of a demographic trend that has helped to keep it out of power ever since.

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Mr Schwarzenegger is the antithesis of censorious Republicanism.

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