Sentences with phrase «better than the critics»

Reese's case was better than our critic grants.

Online matchmakers also claim their record of producing successful unions is better than critics give them credit for.

I think this game is better than critics say they are.

Certainly better than the critics average of 41 on here.

Flawed but better than critics would have you believe.

if one is inclined towards Will Forte, Brothers Solomon was a lot better than the critics had it made out to be.

A lot of films that I wanted to put in this list didn't make the cut (like «The Help,» a film that I feel is a lot better than some critics give it credit for), but I think the list I have to present to you is fairly strong.

Our long economic boom suggests there isn't one - or that our schools are better than the critics claim.»

Our long economic boom suggests there isn't one — or that our schools are better than the critics claim.»

He liked his own work no better than the critics or the public.

He knows better than his critics give him credit that Phonebloks isn't ready for the present market.

Not exact matches

Still, even critics allow that having an HSA is better than no coverage, which is exactly the circumstance faced by many start - up entrepreneurs and the people they recruit to come work for their young companies.

«There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall,» English literary critic Cyril Connolly declared seventy something years ago.

Don't be afraid of some criticism — better to receive it from friends and family than from food critics and customers.

Rather than initiating anger, even his harshest critics often said, «Ooh, good one.»

Indeed, it has received more critics than good comments.

He is my best critic, truly making my work better than I could do on my own.

Obviously these dubious characters must have liked his company a good deal better than they would have liked that of his critics, even if these had not held them at arm's length.

Many of modernity's leading postmodern critics are no less agnostic than are its supporters, nor are they necessarily any more well disposed toward religion.

Maybe the final stage of our rebuilding — or, really, with our young and talented philosophical cultural critics — being built better than ever — is a long, windbag, off - the wall, semi-philosophical post by ME.

Historical criticism is quite compatible with warm appreciation, and to be a biblical critic does not imply anything adverse any more than it does to be a music critic or literary critic, who would be useless unless he had the capacity for appreciating what is good in his field.

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.

The Netflix original is better than the beating the critics are giving it on Rotten Tomatoes, which could be due to the fact that the media elite seem to prefer the moral ambiguity of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to a straight - ahead tale of good battling evil.

Taken may have a commercial blockbuster, earning more than $ 145 million, but it was hardly a darling with critics, averaging mixed reviews at best.

One is the scene in which Dolly is on her way to visit Anna at Vronsky's estate in the country; as she travels, the narrative takes us into her thoughts, which are perfectly ordinary: her anxieties as a mother, principally, and as a wife, and her moral uncertainties; but it is all rendered with such confident and seemingly omniscient artistry that one almost feels as if one has momentarily become this woman, and can think and feel as she does; and more than one female critic has called attention to how well Tolstoy succeeds here at imagining his way into the worries and regrets of a wife and mother.

No one has grasped the magic of Dostoevsky's novels better than the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin.

Consequently when the form critics came to discuss the historicity of the gospel tradition, a question for which their method was at best only indirectly relevant, they tended to arrive at the conclusion which their general orientation suggested, rather than a conclusion which form criticism as such required.

Small groups are actually doing a better job than many of their critics would like to think.

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

However, know that sniffing out only the stories of greed and abuse in the church while ignoring all the stories of actual progress for society that it brings pretty much negates all of your arguments to that of an obsessed critic with nothing better to do than make up facts against the church.

Maclntyre's interpretation squares better than that of critics like G. E. Moore (PE 66f) with Mill's own claim that he can not give what is «commonly understood by proof» for his doctrine, but will present only «considerations capable of determining the intellect either to give or withhold its assent» (U7).

And far from being a broken or dejected man at the end of his life — as some critics maintain, the better to make their case against him seem plausible — Paul VI was carried and sustained by something much stronger than anything in this world, his faith.

To social critics the devotion to family and to communal celebration seem bland and retrograde goals better perhaps than consumption and shopping but not exactly the stuff of bold designs and revolutionary politics.

But critics say the Yale letter will do more harm than good.

The increased marketing spending is to help retailers adjust to a decision by Treasury to bring forward by seven months the release of its 2010 Grange, which is viewed by critics as better than its 2009 stablemate.

What better way to start than the second - leg against Monaco — with a 3 - 1 defeat suffered in the first - leg — this would be the perfect moment for Ozil to silence his critics, and spur Arsenal on to an epic Champions League comeback.

I thought Sanchez & Wilshere were our best players.Also Flamini deserves praise & somewhat Santi Carzola.Other than that Arsenal were poor.Wenger should instead of pushing & then getting into a boxing match with Mourinho, He should try out smart Mourinho tactically.But no Wenger is stubborn & wants to pass instead of sometimes direct play.Some critics were saying Sanchez was keeping the ball for too long thus passing was disturbed.Yeah right!

There's no better time to hit back at his critics than a month after the Red Devils confirmed they wouldn't be making his loan deal permanent.

I am not saying that Aaron Ramsey is a better player than Jack Wilshere, because the England international has done really well for Arsenal this season and made a very good start towards proving all his doubters and critics from last season wrong.

However, things have turned quite sour this season with fans and critics getting way more ammunition than usual to criticize the team, the manager as well as the board, so much so that this might finally be Arsene Wenger's last season with Arsenal.

am not a critic of Ramsey but with that performance from the bench from Mozart even at 32 he clearly has football brain better than Ramsey and wilshere put together....

We the critics only have a small proportion of the facts but we pretend that we know better than someone who lives and breaths Arsenal every single day....

A 21 - year - old Spanish matador sets the El Toreo ring aflame with muleta passes that the critics call better than those of Manolete

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

Elizabeth Lombardo, a psychologist who's worked with celebrities such as Shaquille O'Neal and wrote the book «Better than Perfect: 7 Strategies to Crush Your Inner Critic and Create a Life You Love,» suggest stressed - out workers consider ways they can help themselves.

«Listen to relaxing guided imagery on your smart phone to help boost healing,» while recovering from a root canal or a bike fall, says Elizabeth Lombardo, Ph.D., bestselling author of Better than Perfect: 7 Strategies to Crush Your Inner Critic and Create a Life You Love.

Dr. William Sears, a practicing pediatrician and clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, as well as the bestselling author of more than 20 child - care titles including «The Baby Book,» has been one of the most vocal critics of «Babywise.»

This isn't to suggest that Netanyahu isn't the only critic of the agreement; Republican legislators and Presidential candidates have criticized it as well, but I used quotes from Netanyahu as he articulated the reasoning behind his criticism better than quotes from Republicans that I could find.

In scenes that in no way will convince critics that the upper chamber should be scrapped one Labour lord offered a bottle of champagne to anyone who could come up with a better title for the new universities regulator than the government's preferred title of Office for Students, or Of - Stud for short.

Though well - armed and feisty, Obama's supporters weren't alone online, and his campaign was forced to spend more time and money countering narratives spread by critics than any of his staff would have liked.