"Devastating critique" refers to a thorough and highly critical assessment or evaluation of something, often causing significant damage or destruction to its reputation or credibility. Full definition
Closely related to these latter points are what have been the most devastating critiques of Niebuhr's actual analysis, those aimed at his use of the term «culture.» (religion-online.org)
He pronounces the evidence for the will's authenticity «utterly convincing» but declines to discuss any of it, referring the reader instead to De Groot's 1946 work and thus blithely ignoring more than sixty years of scholarship, including Robert Bearman's devastating critique in 2003. (firstthings.com)
It is not necessary for me to level any criticism at the AP6 because the Government itself released the most devastating critique of it. (clivehamilton.com)