Sentences with phrase «damning critiques of»

Books and articles on Ali often fall into two camps either fawning biographies or damning critiques of his politics.

This week two heavily critical reports were published on Iain Duncan Smith's flagship Universal Credit programme, joining a long list of damning critiques of his time as work and pension secretary.

Dylan Owens, a writer for the Denver Post — and one of perhaps thousands of Americans named after the star — praised Dylan for his «damning critique of the American dream» and his «dense tapestry of folk references.»

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In his letter Mr Johnson offers a damning critique of Mr Corbyn's performance in the campaign and raised the prospect that those closest to the leader sought to thwart Labour's efforts in a bid for a Brexit victory.

Robert Buckland, Michael Ellis and Guy Opperman give a damning critique of Labour's record on criminal justice in their maiden speeches

From Germany, the Guardian's Philip Oltermann draws attention to quite a strong comment piece in the newspaper, Die Zeit, where Matthias Krupa offers a damning critique of David Cameron's strategy:

It is a damning critique of not only the police for protecting their own but also of those who would join forces with the most corrupt among the cops in order to gain some measure of righteousness in this world.

Russia's Sergei Loznita offers a damning critique of his homeland with this epically joyless road movie.

This is a game in which you lure innocent strangers to your basement to be tortured to death, but it's also a damning critique of how video games use dialogue to represent relationships.

For example, I do not consider you saying «So I think that it is just a bit of clown - like bluffing, serving up red meat for the partisans, but little else» to be a damning critique of Inhofe's persecution of climate scientists.

Amory Lovins, an equally legendary figure in US environmental circles, has produced a very damning critique of Brands assertions on energy in which he says: «His nuclear chapter's facts and logic do not hold up to scrutiny.»

Second, far from being a damning critique of ABS (it actually notes that the claims by both proponents and opponents of ABS are overblown — a point you clearly missed), it merely concludes that in one particular respect ABS has not, at least as yet, achieved one of the possible benfits that some of its proponents have claimed - namely increased accessibility for civil litigation services for lower and middle - income legal consumers.

Not exact matches

Consider the clever yet damning critique by Burke, who spent five years as the NHL's director of hockey operations, a job in which he handed out fines and suspensions and often defended referees.

Last week the Fabian Society published an anonymous essay by a group of former Labour advisors which provided a damning but insightful critique of the failures of the Miliband years, and the challenge facing his successor.

All of this context is valuable, particularly as it establishes Graham's moral dilemma about whether to move ahead with printing reports of Ellsberg's leaks: Not only must she imperil her paper's financial health and draw the ire of a vindictive president, but she must also assent to damning, historically vital critique of her vacation partners and social relations.

A slick critique of coked - up consumption, Harron's vision is one of the more recent NYC films worth a damn.

I'm worried that when the history of today's era of education reform is written, the most damning critique will be that its progressive leaders had little understanding of social capital.

Drawing on Hogarth's critique of 18th - century society in Marriage A-la-Mode (1743 — 45), Himid's installation is a damning indictment of UK society, including the art world, in the 1980s, with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan as the countess and her lover alongside a critic and a dealer.