Our honest thoughts don't bear examination in the press or they become hostages to fortune.

"Are there any other technological elements that bear examination at this time?"

He might think I concealed purposes that would not bear close examination.

We have had no skilful compositions- nothing which could bear examination as works of art.

Marika often wondered if that did not bear closer examination.

At the core of herself she'd been overtaken by a darkness which didn't bear close examination.

What really bears examination is not the excesses of stage directors but the conditions that lead to them.

It had been the calving shed, an idea that didn't bear too much examination.

Such an argument bears little examination, however, when one considers the role, particularly, of appeal courts.

But there are other areas where the bid bears closer examination.