stricture

1 No good reason is offered or indeed imaginable for always avoiding the passive, though Orwell did thus influence a whole generation of incompetent style-guide composers who repeated this loony stricture as gospel.

2 She responds to the strictures and expectations as we might imagine anyone would.

3 I find creating a play akin to writing poetry in many ways; the strictures of both forms appeal to me.

4 They all heeded certain formal strictures, incorporating coiled-spring melodies, mournful Jewish scales and shrewdly structured chaos.

5 The gurus of screenwriting tend to employ many blunt maxims and strictures.

6 In each, social systems act upon the characters: they cannot escape their strictures.

7 If countercurrent is long-standing, esophagus will form scar and stricture finally.

若反流长期存在，食管最终将会形成瘢痕和狭窄。

8 But he itches at the strictures of tradition and yearns to bring straying youth into the Jewish fold.

9 Machado remained fascinated by femininity and the strictures governing the lives of women — it’s why he reminds me of Munro.

10 If stricture develops, bouginage will be needed.

若狭窄发生，则需用探条扩张术。

11 There was a reason such strictures seemed appealing.

12 An unfortunate aftereffect of the strictures enforced by Samuel Beckett during his lifetime, and now by his estate, on productions of “Waiting for Godot” is that every version seems more or less the same.

13 Conclusions: Anastomotic stricture 、 stones and obstruction are the major causes of reoperation.

结论: 吻合口狭窄结石梗阻是再手术的主要原因.

14 It was also a lesson in DIY film-making, in what a great artist could accomplish on his own dime, outside the strictures of a major studio and the bounds of public norms and standards.

15 They labor under strictures that prevent the art from ever being moved, or lent to other museums, or that make it difficult to collect new works and integrate them into the existing collection.

16 For decades, Joseph and other apologists for Mormon polygamy claimed they were “raising up seed” to their Lord, his previous strictures notwithstanding.

17 Here, the former professional wrestler and former Minnesota governor unleashes an enthusiastic, if somewhat incoherent, jeremiad against the strictures of prohibition.

18 Joking aside, I thought that the strictures of last week's topic took us in some interesting directions and allowed me to explore most of them.

19 The idea was, choose a card and use its instructions as a kind of guiding stricture: "Abandon Normal Instruments," "Give Way to Your Worst Impulse," "Use Unqualified People," and so forth.

20 This summer group show offers an inspiring reminder of how broad the creative field can be even within a narrow formal stricture.

1 批评

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2 严密

close true accurate exact severe strict rigorous rigid watertight exactly strictly severely rigor rigidity closeness exactitude

3 责难

stick rap reproach arraign reprobate reflect

4 狭小

cramp diminutive

5 弹劾

impeachment denunciation impeach

6 指责

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7 不利的批评

knock

8 非难

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9 通常用复数

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10 限制

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11 约束

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12 束缚

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13 苛责

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14 苛评

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15 狭窄

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16 谴责

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17 酷评

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