Sentences with phrase «about the critics as»

An easy target but it may amuse some of you: a writer in The Daily Telegraph pretends to be Dan Brown thinking about his critics as his book Inferno appeared.

Chelsea were known for their defensive style of play last season, and many labelled Mourinho's side as boring to watch, but Mourinho and his team didn't worry about the critics as they ended up lifting the League Cup and the Premier League in the 14/15 campaign.

Not exact matches

CNN analyst Van Jones, who gained a high profile for his strong and pointed commentary during election season, will speak about the current state of affairs, as will venture capitalist and guest Shark Tank investor Chris Sacca, who has been a vocal critic of Trump since long before he came president.

Critics routinely point out that overall levels of debt are still rising, and that the talked - about «deleveraging» should more accurately be described as a slowdown in credit growth.

As it has grown into a phenomenon, Facebook has repeatedly sparked privacy concerns from critics concerned about its push to get users to reveal more personal information.

While critics might lambaste this as wishy - washiness, it is perhaps one of the best and most unique things about Canada — a pragmatism that ultimately trumps single - mindedness.

Most biting of all, critics have branded Bechtel as the archetype for a big business that feeds from government contracts — about half its sales flow from state - sponsored projects — and cultivates cozy ties with officials to gain an unfair edge.

However the company also has critics, as The Wall Street Journal ran an article about Theranos alleging that the company's proprietary testing devices may be inaccurate.

I asked her about reports that her government is planning to raise Alberta's $ 15 per tonne carbon price to $ 40 per tonne as a means to getting American approval for the pipeline project — a price that environmental critics say would be still too low.

European privacy campaigner and lawyer Max Schrems — a long time critic of Facebook — was actually raising concerns about the Facebook's lax attitude to data protection and app permissions as long ago as 2011.

In an interview with ThinkAdvisor, the industry critic shares his views, including a bold - face forecast about what he gauges as the rule's most alarming aspect, plus a withering critique of the industry lawsuits seeking to vacate the rule.

This is what made Google's low - key announcement of its latest plans for messaging on Android phones — an exclusive with The Verge about what it calls Chat — so striking: the company is introducing an open alternative to products like iMessage and WhatsApp, but only as a last resort, and the effort is being pilloried by critics to boot; Walt Mossberg was representative:

As it had announced at the end of 2016, the ECB cut the size of its monthly bond purchases from $ 80 billion to $ 60 billion in April, but President Draghi also moved to quell speculation about an increase in the ECB's deposit rate later this year, which some critics had called for, even before any curtailment of the ECB's quantitative easing program.

The fact Canadian troops could end up supporting counter-terror operations nonetheless came as a shock to NDP defence critic Randall Garrison, who blasted the Liberals for not telling Canadians more about the Mali mission.

It's got to sting, because as Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre reminds them every chance he gets, those two should know something about endowments.

Nevertheless, there were numerous critics expressing worries about the growth of margin lending, but the financial press tended to play their arguments down, even going as far as charging the critics with trying to undermine confidence for ulterior reasons (Barron's and the Wall Street Journal both published editorials to that effect).

I don't have it in me to be as cruel about this filmic failure as the critic of THE NEW YORKER.

In my short span as a music critic, I've come to learn that nothing upsets people more quickly and severely than writing opinions about music.

For years Osteen has been dinged by religious critics as a theological lightweight - for talking too much about sunshine and not enough about sin.

All they can offer is nostalgia for simpler days, some deprecatory remarks about our 24 - hour news cycle, and a forlorn endorsement of shorter memos for the President (the demand for which was, as I recall, widely regarded by critics as a symptom of intellectual vacuity in the Reagan Adminstration).

In a 2000 interview with Women's Quarterly, the great critic displayed about as much indifference to the existence of God as is humanly possible; he had neither the commitment of a true believer nor the paradoxical loyalty of the atheist who kicks against the pricks:

Whether in Methodism, Catholicism, or numerous other communities, the bureaucratic defenders of platforms such as «Political Responsibility» routinely dismiss their critics as disgruntled «conservatives» who are unhappy about not getting their way.

Some critics say the pope should refrain from speaking about scientific matters, while others laud his letter as a major contribution to the climate change debate.

However, to jump straight to the conclusion that it would immediately ban Bible sales seems somewhat disingenuous (as some of its critics don't even suggest that is the primary concern), and it threatens to undermine debate about the actual content of the legislation.

It seemed he could hardly talk about anything else, which struck his critics as a borderline unhealthy obsession and stuck him with all manner of unfortunate pejoratives like «communist» and «marxist.»

We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

U can not critic something if you don't read about it, becoz if u do so, u r just saying nosense as a fool

Even as a critic of ECT, I very much appreciate that it was open about its purpose as ecumenical.

Historical critics are not immune to this danger, as Luke T. Johnson observes about John Dominic Crossan's 1991 work, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant: «Does not Crossan's picture of a peasant cynic preaching inclusiveness and equality fit perfectly the idealized ethos of the late 20th - century academic?»

In fact, Netflix actually said more about what the shows won't be: The shows won't be used to respond to President Trump or other Obama critics, nor will they serve as a counter to Fox News or Breitbart.com, according to a Netflix source close to the negotiations.

«But,» responds the critic, «with all this talk about individuals having their rights and «doing their thing,» is there any place for the family as an institution?

If there is a certain skittishness when it comes to talking about them much, I suspect it is in large part because both have been exploited for ideological purposes: slavery to underscore black victimhood and to mandate compensatory attitudes and policies; the Holocaust as a convenient stick with which the ACLU and its like beat their «Fascist,» i.e., conservative, critics.

Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.

Evangelical critics have similar reservations, said Bonk, as well as a concern about «whether a film, any film, can have the capacity to communicate the gospel without reference to local contexts.»

And if you're wondering what that «new natural law» stuff is all about (or why new natural law isn't an oxymoron), there's a panel that serves as a fine introduction to its premises and its faith - based critics.

The discovery of this fact about the Gospels is often popularly attributed to a contemporary school of scholars known as «Form critics,» but the fact was well established long before this particular school emerged and rests upon grounds considerably wider and firmer than those which support this school's particular claims.

In Hinduism, in Sufism, in Christian mysticism,... we find the same recurring note, so that there is about mystical utterances an eternal unanimity which ought to make a critic stop and think, and which brings it about that the mystical classics have, as has been said, neither birthday nor native land.

For example, one of the charges against Honest to God, almost as soon as it appeared, was that John Robinson had said nothing in that book about «future life» — although the critic must have forgotten that not many years before the bishop had written, while still a theological teacher, a treatise entitled In the End God which is a considered and very interesting and suggestive discussion of exactly that subject as well as of the related aspects of «the last things».

Critic Harry James Cargas of Webster College, St. Louis, Missouri, author of Daniel Berrigan and Contemporary Protest Poetry, here talks with Philip Berrigan about his work as an author.

But as we have learned, wherever there is metaphor the demon of nonlinearity can go to work, arousing the usual fears about unpredictability and loss of rational control, as we see in people like Francis Bacon, John Locke, the French critic - novelist Alain Robbe - Grillet, and the late Paul de Man.

Which is, of course, one of the points we have to keep making about Pius XII, who had to make excruciating decisions about what to say and what not to say, because people would suffer and die if he said the wrong thing, but who receives from his critics no such understanding as Roosevelt receives here.

A slight change of plans here — I had wanted to talk about this recent Conor Friedersdorf piece about the lack of conservative rap critics as part of a three - part essay called «Paradoxes of Conservative Pop - Culture Studies,» but I realized that to really to do that, I would have to talk about rap more than a bit, indeed, enough to demand a Rock Songbook post or two.

Since most information about Jesus comes from Christian sources, some critics argued that the biblical scholars who disbelieve that Jesus was the same as the Christ of faith have created the historical Jesus in their own image.

It's interesting that Driscoll writes a piece about how others are criticizing his book — as he is one of the most vocal critics of others who don't fall into his view of how he thinks people should act and be.

With the advances in knowledge that are almost certain to be gained from the Human Genome Initiative — or, if its critics should win the day and it lose support, from more piecemeal genetic - research — we will know more and - more about genetic factors causally related to health and disease and to other important aspects of life, such as intelligence and emotional states.

This fallacy is widespread in Shakespeare studies, true enough, but the business of wrenching passages out of dramatic context as evidence of the playwright's personal beliefs usually reveals more about the critic than about Shakespeare.

Most critics would agree that it is impossible to regard the gospel in its present form as wholly the work of John, the son of Zebedee, but widely differing views are held about the circumstances in which the gospel was composed.

Some critics claim he failed to warn other Roman Jews about what was about to transpire and about his own plans, describing this alleged failure to share his information with other Jews as a serious moral lapse....

About James Suckling Suckling began his wine critic career in 1981 as an assistant editor for Wine Spectator magazine.