She was my nurse, secretary, editor, counselor and friendly critic through all those years of illness and occasional depression. (religion-online.org)
The idea of coalition, by the way, and for all that I was an internal friendly critic of it for five years, I would argue that in the last couple of generations the coalition government was the best in terms of stability and certainly when you compare it to the current shambles you've got to say they were good years. (premierchristianity.com)
In this stimulating collection of essays written while he served on the President's Council on Bioethics, Peter Augustine Lawler proves himself again one of liberal democracy's most perceptive friendly critics. (firstthings.com)