He surveyed them all with a bland, uncritical glance.

It would be absurd to believe it, merely to save an uncritical expression of Livy.

And a like intellectual self-denial is needed on the part of the idealist, who is apt to dismiss all realism as crude, uncritical, or barbaric.

In the uncritical and boisterous atmosphere of the Satyr-play it was natural hospitality, not especially laudable or surprising.

In treating of Thackeray's view of life, as reflected in his novels, critics vary greatly, and the following summary must be taken not as a positive judgment but only as an attempt to express the general impression of his works on an uncritical reader.

His profession, so far as he had any, was that of a copyist of music, and his musical taste and facile talents had at last brought him an uncritical recognition.

On a first rapid inspection I assumed, with most uncritical recklessness, that Chapman was the author.

Uncritical reprint of very valuable articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Adj. approving &c v.; in favor of; lost in admiration. commendatory, complimentary, benedictory^, laudatory, panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, lavish of praise, uncritical. approved, praised &c v.; uncensured, unimpeached; popular, in good odor; in high esteem &c (respected) 928; in favor, in high favor.

He pointed out that the effect of this uncritical imitation of what was foreign was again experienced by men 'full of admiration of a newer German system.'

Uncritical Treatment of History These first essays in historical literature were all of them, as a matter of course, pervaded by an easy, uncritical spirit; neither authors nor readers readily took offence at inward or outward inconsistencies.

Uncritical Treatment of History These first essays in historical literature were all of them, as a matter of course, pervaded by an easy, uncritical spirit; neither authors nor readers readily took offence at inward or outward inconsistencies.

This naive uncritical spirit is especially apparent in the treatment of Roman chronology.

The same uncritical spirit, which prevailed in the early history, prevailed also to a certain extent in the representation of historical times.

We have seen in the previous chapter that where a man's merits are of a high order, it is difficult for him to win reputation, because the public is uncritical and lacks discernment.

it was realized even by the uncritical that short story writing had become a subtle art and that the master of its subtleties had his reader at his mercy."

This is a specimen of a kind of position that is frequently taken up by critics upon that side, and that I cannot but think quite unreasonable and uncritical.

Though but uncritical epitomes of a fragmentary myth about him remain, they are enough to stamp it as that which meets us so constantly, no matter where we turn in the New World.

That's done it,' which attitude, though commercially helpful, was less really satisfying to the creator than Clare's uncritical absorption in the characters and the story.

Suffice it to glance in passing at one of the reasons which has been alleged in explanation, scil.:that the "Lives" are uncritical and romantic, that they abound in wild legends, chronological impossibilities and all sorts of incredible stories, and, finally, that miracles are multiplied till the miraculous becomes the ordinary, and that marvels are magnified till the narrative borders on the ludicrous.

All archaic literature, be it remembered, is in a greater or less degree uncritical, and it must be read in the light of the writer's times and surroundings.

Most of the historical documents of the period are in a greater or less degree uncritical but that does not discredit their testimony however much it may confuse their editors.

It is impossible to doubt the severe chastity of Milton's own ideal, and to compare it for one moment to the conventional onestà which replaced virtue in Tasso's world, or with the nauseous unreality of the puppet Fletcher sought to enthrone in its place, would be to commit an uncritical outrage.

When one praises an actor in this way, one is always open to accusations of prejudice, hyperbole, uncritical gush, unreasoned eulogy, and the rest.

Textual inaccuracy is a grave fault in the new edition of an old poet; and Mr. Farr is not only liable to this charge, but also to that of making blundering misstatements which are calculated to mislead the careless or uncritical reader.