Sentences with phrase «critics apoplectic»

The French artist Francis Picabia made art critics apoplectic.

It took the book culture by storm in 1996, turning critics apoplectic with praise while requiring some readers to make multiple attempts at hacking through its thicket of wry footnotes and serpentine, beautifully constructed sentences.

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Their promise was so great that when President Obama announced last March that he was lifting the ban on the use of federal money for research on human embryonic stem cells, critics on the right were apoplectic: iPS cells, they said, made such a move scientifically unjustified.

Even critics otherwise sympathetic to advanced painting in the 1950s were made apoplectic by Newman's huge, minimally inflected canvases — fields of monochromatic paint with a vertical stripe or two — and they have provoked vandalism from the time of his first solo show at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1950.