Sentences with phrase «friendly critic»

She was my nurse, secretary, editor, counselor and friendly critic through all those years of illness and occasional depression.

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.

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.

He confounded even friendly critics like Gertrude Himmelfarb, who commented that his early brilliance «might have been expected to [issue] in an illustrious and productive career.»

We will remain friendly critics, puzzled at their survival capacities and hopeful about their intentions.

Today as the blog illustrates with its video the cross party campaign for the referendum gets under way Cameron wastes his credibility in attacking a decidedly friendly critic.

Friendly critics of Novak have also fretted that he seems often to reach too quickly from the cultural - economic - political to the explicitly theological.

Without settling their questions of boundary and definition, I want to comment on the current shape of evangelicalism from the vantage of a friendly critic or a critical friend.

Once, when an undermanned RPI team was losing to St. Lawrence, a friendly critic recalls, «the RPI players were really tired at the end of the second period.»

David Dein, Wenger's great boardroom ally, was ousted in 2007 and after that, there was nobody inside the club to act as a friendly critic.