I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.