Inquisition

(noun.) a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals).

(noun.) a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy.

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• There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an Inquisition. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Here even the Inquisition was restored. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In all countries, a severe inquisition into the circumstances of private persons has been carefully avoided. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Galileo, although he was ill, went to Rome, and was placed on trial before the Inquisition. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He was the life of the ship, the bloody-minded son of the Inquisition! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Nothing is hidden from their inquisition, and their families mutely rule our city. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It looked like a drawing of the Inquisition. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It was this that brought him before the Inquisition and that branded him as a dangerous heretic, and it was this that placed him in the forefront of the world’s discoverers. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Rather than suffer the pains of the Inquisition he agreed, and made his solemn declaration. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Galileo’s teachings were pointed out as dangerous to the teachings of the Church, and the officers of the Inquisition began to consider how they might best deal with him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They were paying for the Inquisition now, all right. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The Inquisition did its work ruthlessly. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It is a great pity the playful Inquisition is no more. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Whether he said this or not there can be no doubt but that the great astronomer knew the performance was a farce, and that the world did move in spite of all the Inquisition could declare. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He does in wars, in racial and religious persecutions; he did in the Spain of the Inquisition; he does in the American lynching. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The idea of riding all day long over such ghastly inquisitions of torture is sickening. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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