Sentences with phrase «led critics like»

LGBT rights activist Richard Socarides credits Clinton as the first President to publicly champion gay rights, [150] but Clinton's signing of DOMA and DADT have led critics like Andrew Sullivan to argue Clinton was a detriment to rather than an ally for the LGBT rights movement.

Not exact matches

Many major blockbusters, like 2009's «Watchmen», were heavily cut for Middle East audiences, which critics said led to the movie being «near incomprehensible.»

When critics like Brian Riedl, the campaign economist for the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, fret that offering everyone a good job will lead to «pressure to introduce a higher wage or certain benefits that the private sector doesn't offer,» proponents say: Yeah, it will; that's exactly the point.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

Critics might say that Messi is yet to do it at international level for Argentina, but he is only 28 and could still easily lead La Albiceleste to the World Cup like Maradona did in 1986.

EJ McMahon: «You don't have to be a fan of the federal tax deal to realize its impact on states like New York has been misrepresented by most of its leading political critics.»

And now Mr. Giuliani has emerged as a leading critic of Mr. de Blasio, blaming the mayor, like Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch and Sergeants Benevolent Association President Edward Mullins, for igniting the cop - hating atmosphere that led Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, to ambush and kill Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos in Bedford - Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on December 20.

Forest City Ratner commissioned a study from the leading critic of stadium deals, Andrew Zimbalist — and, surprise, this time Zimbalist liked what he saw.

BY E.J. McMAHON Founder and research director, Empire Center You don't have to be a fan of the federal tax deal to realize its impact on states like New York has been misrepresented by most of its leading political critics.

His critics on the left have accused him of preferring the arrangement in the Senate that has led to provisions like the Dream Act or early voting to be blocked.

After that, backbench critics of Brown decided that they could not rely on the cabinet to act for them - either because they lacked the courage or because, for those like David Miliband and Alan Johnson, resignation would destroy their chance of leading.

Critics of the technique have always said that only a small fraction of donated eggs would develop in the required embryo - like way, leading to huge wastage.

He went on to play wisecracking leading roles in such «B «s as Night of Terror (1933), The Nut Farm (1935) and The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1935); the critics paid no heed to these minor efforts, though they always showered Ford with praise for his supporting roles in films like John Ford's The Informer (1935) and Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

Critic Consensus: Heavy symbolism and a repulsive lead character make World Traveler seems like a long trip.

Critics Consensus: Heavy symbolism and a repulsive lead character make World Traveler seems like a long trip.

Critic Consensus: Like a grand staircase within the famous mansion that inspired it, Winchester appears poised to get a rise out of audiences, but ultimately leads nowhere.

They range from stuff like «tell us what you really think» to other winners like how the critic is out of touch / hates movies, how «movies are for entertainment and I was entertained,» or, Geez, you must lead a really sad life.

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

The film critic David Ehrlich has tweeted that the film feels like it wasn't even made by humans, and I'd go further, to say that the movie dehumanizes its leading woman and attempts, disconcertingly, to dehumanize its audience.

Yet there have been occasional times when Sandler's work was taken not just seriously, but respected by critics from some of his better rom - coms like «The Wedding Singer» to most notably his leading role in Paul Thomas Anderson's «Punch - Drunk Love».

It feels like an obvious Critics» Choice contender / frontrunner for lead actor and series in the comedy races, especially since this is the same voting body who has repeatedly awarded a showrunner / star like Louis CK and even championed Glover's first show Community.

His newest film, Caché (also known as Hidden), received the San Francisco Film Critics Circle award for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as several other American awards, leading to the assumption that a wide variety of reviewers not only liked the film, but also bothered to see it at all.

With an all - time great soundtrack (featuring Led Zep's first legally sanctioned film tunes), stellar performances from the likes of a young Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Philip Seymour Hoffman (a phenomenal rendering of rock critic Lester Bangs), Frances McDormand, and more «I forgot they were in this movie too» moments (Zooey Deschanel, Anna Paquin, Jimmy Fallon, Rainn Wilson), it's tough not to fall in love with this drug - fueled look back at the golden age of rock and roll.

As much as the film seemed like it was going to be a shoe - in for success based on critics» praise and a savvy social media campaign leading up to the release, it was still the third Spider - Man franchise to hit the big screen in the last 15 years.

Most critics of portfolio assessment say they like the emphasis on demonstrated writing and oral skill, but have seen too many instances in which a refusal to give traditional tests of factual recall leads to charmingly written essays with little concrete information to support their arguments.

Meanwhile, writer, professor, and critic Stephen Burt chronicles the dream - like story of how fantasy writer Catherynne Valente's crowd - funded Internet novel won a Nebula Award, became a trade best - seller, and led to four traditionally published sequels.

Featuring brand new interviews with Lead Designer James Ohlen and Senior Writer Drew Karpyshyn, game critic Alex Kane's book unveils how this classic game was made, analyzes KotOR's worldview through the lens of philosophy, mythology, and the ethics of war, and investigates how the game borrows techniques from contemporary films like The Sixth Senseand Fight Club.

The other was that the artist, anticipating the bared knives of critics, hired an image consultant and began an expensive campaign to build his brand in the press, giving self - glorifying interviews and taking out full - page ads in the leading art publications presenting himself as an offbeat yet successful guru - like visionary.

And in the hey day of Modernism, critics like Clement Greenberg pursued a narrative which saw Modernist painting as a «peculiar form of tunnel vision leading away from pictorial depth and compositional complexity towards flatness, all - overness and the absence of association.»

In America, thanks to the marketing efforts of art dealers like Leo Castelli (1907 - 99), critics now started to see him as one of the leading lights of contemporary art in New York.

In my book, Ofili's more than earned the right to follow his paintings where they lead, without worrying about what people — or critics [yes, I know they're people, too]-- think an Ofili «should» look like.

But even in leading newspapers like The New York Times, critics with a long public record for animosity and exaggeration were quoted as experts.