Sentences with phrase «much as the critics»

I'm writing this not so much as a critic but as an ordinary moviegoer, experiencing Proustian transport via an old - fashioned scary movie executed by a team of filmmakers and actors at the top of their game.

I've gone back and forth (and hot and cold) on it as much as a critic can; I warmed to it last season but feel a familiar chill this time.

As much as a critic pretends to be objective, he can only evaluate what's on the screen.

For as much as critics like to write with empirical authority, forming an opinion during the multi-day multi-movie binge of a Sundance or a Cannes or a TIFF is basically shooting from the hip.

Wasn't sure I would like it as much as the critics said but I did.

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY (Available as single - disc and 3 - Disc Special Editions) As much as critics may have loved Hellboy II, I felt strangely alone when proclaiming amongst fellow movie geeks that it was one of my favorite releases of 2008.

It is one that I suspect those who love Disney's 1991 animated classic should be able to appreciate just as much as this critic who only likes it did.

For these reasons, the current system should indeed promote a class bias in the types of parents going private, much as the critics of choice contend (and as supporters recognize).

It looks like doing so could take 30 + hours, so if that's your thing, I hope you enjoy the game as much as the critics seemed to.

Yet it also pigeonholed women, much as critics soon enough pigeonholed Stettheimer.

Not exact matches

Some critics question whether Belt and Road makes as much sense economically as it does politically.

This is the right attitude to take, as there is much that can be learned from constructive critics.

Today, as global markets nervously watch to see how much it will cost to save European banks from their willingness to make risky loans, critics around the world are calling for Hammurabi - style reforms to make sure financial institutions, not taxpayers, pay for future bad bets.

What critics said: «Even those of us who regard the Marvel aesthetic as a plague on world cinema can find much in Spider - Man: Homecoming to be charmed by.»

He served as the Official Opposition Finance Critic for much of his time in the Legislature.

For years Osteen has been dinged by religious critics as a theological lightweight - for talking too much about sunshine and not enough about sin.

You can delude yourself as much as you want, but you can not square the circle that is why your critics maintain you are a liar, in our view but probaly not in your brainwashed mind.

In a 2000 interview with Women's Quarterly, the great critic displayed about as much indifference to the existence of God as is humanly possible; he had neither the commitment of a true believer nor the paradoxical loyalty of the atheist who kicks against the pricks:

People who succeed in life quiet the inner critic as much as possible... those who make a career out of criticising everyone and everything are usually spinning their wheels.

Yet as several of the interviewees point out, critics in the West read too much into Iran's «poetic» film language.

And as professional critics we reject any appeal to a transcendent power at work in history, much less one that «works for good in all things.»

Even as a critic of ECT, I very much appreciate that it was open about its purpose as ecumenical.

Other critics have doubted whether the church has much potential as a carrier of moral values.

As Erich Auerbach, a literary critic Frei much admired, once wrote of the Bible: «Far from seeking... merely to make us forget our own reality for a few hours, it seeks to overcome our reality: we are to fit our own life into its world, feel ourselves to be elements in its structure of universal history.

Those critics who condemn such a medium as unfit for Christian evangelization or worship require much more thoughtful consideration than Howard and Streck give them.

If there is a certain skittishness when it comes to talking about them much, I suspect it is in large part because both have been exploited for ideological purposes: slavery to underscore black victimhood and to mandate compensatory attitudes and policies; the Holocaust as a convenient stick with which the ACLU and its like beat their «Fascist,» i.e., conservative, critics.

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?

Tough - guy New York newspaperman Pete Hamill praised the book as a scathing indictment of the «culture of poverty» (yes, he really uses this phrase) fostered by «Eamon de Valera's Ireland,» while the literary critic Denis Donoghue, writing in the New York Times, presented the book in much the same way (though he clearly lacks Hamill's enthusiasm for the story).

Regarding Schrader's «The Canyons» I can't say much more than what has already been written, except to say it is not as bad as every critic would have to believe.

But whereas, with Aristotle and much of the tradition, I hold that contingency and change belong together, as do necessity and eternity, my critic wants to separate contingency and change sharply in application to God.

Critics charge that Weber's arguments go beyond notions of elective affinity in emphasizing the role of status groups as carriers of new ideas, but the intervening mechanisms relating particular ideas to particular status groups still leave much to be explained.

Mr. Nuechterlein's rhetoric, labeling orthodox critics of Benke as «ultraconservatives» with a «sectarian mentality» and a «blinkered preoccupation with unionism,» sounded much more like the kind of orthodoxy - bashing one has come to expect from the mainstream media than the thoughtful commentary typical of First Things in general and Mr. Nuechterlein's work in particular.

(A fact conveniently ignored by Bush critics) And frankly I think they likely did have the weapons as most of the world's security analysts believed, but hell with as much lead time as we publicly gave them to remove them is it any wonder they were no longer there by the time action was taken?

Third, critics do not so much dispute the details of what Whiteheadians say as object to the whole process of reflecting in this way.

Some of his good friends, as well as his critics, have chided him for a number of years for spending too much time on structural problems of the church and internal issues of ecclesiology; I would now predict a broadening out of various issues of religion and culture.

Rogers debunks this view and shows — quite convincingly — that Aquinas relies on grace every bit as much as his Protestant critics do.

My conclusion is that the natural philosopher must strive to become as much mythologist as (to use Whitehead's phrase) «critic of abstractions» (SMW 87).

His conclusion is that the natural philosopher must strive to become as much mythologist as (to use Whitehead's phrase) «critic of abstractions.»

It is all very well to denounce such theologians as Stanley Hauerwas for «sectarianism,» but they have much the right of it against their critics.»

But as a critic of metaphysics, he was himself too much a bad metaphysician to rate highly.

The very cost of mounting and moving so comprehensive a show (having closed in Chicago, it is now in Philadelphia and from there goes to Los Angeles and New York) makes it all the more remarkable that an artist who had generated so much hostility among so many critics at the beginning of the decade in both the United States and Germany would have survived the firestorm of criticism and receive solid support from such establishment stalwarts as the Lannan Foundation and the Ford Motor Company.

I love the «toon as you drew it, and I know it's easy to be a «critic», so take this with as much salt as you like, but maybe it would have been even more effective if there were three groups pulling, with Jesus» feet together being pulled down and each arm being pulled in opposite directions... you know, so it would like kind of like... oh I don't know, maybe a cross?

And in this operation, the critic, insofar as he is the prime agent for bridging the rift between insight and ignorance, becomes himself as much an embodied and faith - inspiring metaphor as Laplace was with his magical mathematics of probabilities.

It was as much a success with critics as it was with viewers — if you're too young to remember, note that this used to be the most popular show in America — and it leveraged that success to break new ground in television.

Many critics seem frustrated by how difficult it is to categorize your works, and yet that seems to be a large part of your appeal to the general public, much as it was for Gershwin with Porgy and Bess or Bernstein with West Side Story.

What literary critics and biblical scholars share, according to the editors of The Literary Guide, is not so much an interest in the referential qualities of the biblical texts as an interest in their internal relationships, particularly as these relationships are controlled by language.

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.

As the restaurant critic for LA Weekly, there are three things I know for certain: (1) L.A. is arguably the most interesting place to eat in America right now; (2) much of our most remarkable dining happens in places that are hard to infiltrate and understand — even for those of us who live here; and (3) this is particularly true of the San Gabriel Valley (the SGV), the 284 - mile swath of land that lies to the east of the city and holds the most thrilling international eating in America.

He wanted as much to prove himself right with his signings, and his critics wrong, as to win on the field.

That's obviously unlikely to happen as all eyes will now be on Luiz as he looks to silence his critics and prove that he's returned a much better player compared to the one that left in 2014.