I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.