Thesaurus / stricture
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When they play with technical strictures, they also feel the music suffers.
WE’RE MORE OF OURSELVES WHEN WE’RE IN TUNE WITH OTHERS - ISSUE 104: HARMONYKEVIN BERGERJULY 21, 2021NAUTILUSSo she hasn’t spoken about her conservatorship or about the strictures under which she is living for 13 years.
BRITNEY SPEARS WASN’T WRONG TO THINK PEOPLE WOULD MOCK HER FOR TELLING THE TRUTHCONSTANCE GRADYJUNE 24, 2021VOXIt also gives individual viewers — rather than Disney, with its many corporate obligations and strictures on what is and isn’t family-friendly — the agency to determine who we cheer for and identify with, and what version of the narrative we accept.
WHY IT’S SO SATISFYING TO ROOT FOR DISNEY VILLAINSAJA ROMANOMAY 28, 2021VOXAs the days turn into weeks turn into months, the strictures become harder to tolerate.
PEOPLE GAVE UP ON FLU PANDEMIC MEASURES A CENTURY AGO WHEN THEY TIRED OF THEM – AND PAID A PRICELGBTQ-EDITORMARCH 28, 2021NO STRAIGHT NEWSAssisted living facilities emerged as a third way, rejecting the clinical strictures of a medical institution in favor of a more informal, dormlike setting.
“WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO IS DEAD OR ALIVE”: TRAPPED INSIDE AN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY DURING THE PANDEMICBY AVA KOFMANNOVEMBER 30, 2020PROPUBLICAThe longtime activist for women and girls held a high post in the Hamid Karzai government but was forced to step down after opponents called her the “Salman Rushdie of Afghanistan” for criticizing the strictures of Sharia law.
A NOBEL PURSUIT GONE WRONG?TRACY MORANOCTOBER 11, 2020OZYThe principal stricture passed on the virtuoso was that he played too softly, or, rather, too delicately.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSThe common sequence is stricture of the gullet, combined with feeble digestion, and in a few instances stricture of the pylorus.
POISONS: THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTIONALEXANDER WYNTER BLYTHThe gullet is most affected at its lower part, and it is this part which is mostly subject to stricture.
POISONS: THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTIONALEXANDER WYNTER BLYTHThe first recorded operation for external urethrotomy for the relief of stricture is mentioned in Wiseman's writings.
AN EPITOME OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINEROSWELL PARKWORDS RELATED TO STRICTURE
- Bronx cheers
- animadversions
- aspersions
- bad presses
- blasts
- brickbats
- call downs
- carpings
- cavilings
- cavils
- censures
- critical remarks
- cuts
- denunciations
- disparagements
- faultfinding
- flak
- hits
- knocks
- nit-picking
- objections
- opprobrium
- panning
- pans
- put downs
- quibbles
- rap on knuckles
- reproofs
- roasts
- slams
- slap on wrists
- slaps
- static
- strictures
- swipes
- vitriol
- zappers
- black list
- blackball
- blame
- boo
- boycott
- brickbat
- call down
- castigation
- catcall
- censure
- criticism
- denunciation
- deprecation
- disapprobation
- discontent
- disfavor
- dislike
- disparagement
- displeasure
- dissatisfaction
- hiss
- nix
- objection
- opprobrium
- ostracism
- reproach
- reproof
- slap on wrist
- stricture
- thumbs-down
- vitriol
- zing
- Catch-22
- bar
- barricade
- barrier
- block
- blockage
- bottleneck
- burden
- catch
- chain
- check
- clog
- cramp
- curb
- dead weight
- defect
- delay
- deterrent
- detriment
- difficulty
- disadvantage
- drag
- drawback
- encumbrance
- fault
- flaw
- handicap
- hazard
- hitch
- holdup
- hurdle
- inhibition
- load
- manacle
- millstone
- obstacle
- prohibition
- red tape
- restraint
- restriction
- retardation
- retardment
- road block
- rub
- setback
- shackle
- snag
- stoppage
- stricture
- stumbling block
- tie
- trammel
- wall
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