Sentences with phrase «of useful criticism»

It would depart, obviously, from Cobb's contention that «listeners,» responding in the mode of presentational immediacy, are alone «capable of useful criticism or indeed of any serious discussion of musical composition» (John B. Cobb, Jr., «Toward Clarity in Aesthetics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 18 [1957], p. 178).

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Compare that with credit cards, which involve thousands of transactions per second, so the criticism about bitcoin's ability to be useful at larger scales is understandable.

While NFIB's site contains a big dose of criticism for Obamacare, it also offers useful interactive features such as a healthcare tax - credit calculator.

EZTrader has received some (pretty well - deserved) criticism in the past for having an old - fashioned platform, but during recent years the platform has been updated with a lot of modern and highly useful features that can be used to enhance the trading experience.

Some of the criticism is justified, but like criticism of Search Console / Webmaster Tools, it covers up some useful functionality that is much better than Keyword Tool ever could have been.

Granted, however, that biblical criticism is a legitimate, and even a useful, branch of scientific study, is it important for the general reader, who has no particular interest in matters of archaeology or ancient history?

Psychoanalytic criticism may have fallen out of favor, but it has not ceased to be useful.

For example, criticism of the gospels has been enhanced through study of the chreia, a short and pithy saying recorded and attributed to a famous character because it was regarded as useful for living.

Indeed, such criticism is useful as a safeguard against the tendency of nonperfectionists to practice moral self - deception.

The first two sections in themselves offer a useful historical overview of the developments in biblical criticism and the third section offers numerous insights into the theology of St John and the life of the primitive Church while the whole work together could help usher in some long - awaited commonsense in New Testament studies.

Niebuhr's categories have been subjected to numerous critiques and present a number of problems if we are to continue to use them, Without attempting to be exhaustive, let me summarize what I see as the major criticisms that bear on our purpose, which is to see if we can refine and clarify his categories so that they may» be useful to future generations.

This lecture seems to have been devoted in large part to criticisms of Alexander, specifically that his notion of «emergence» is too vague and muddled to give any useful account of «cognitive experience» in particular, or of the more general observations of the novel and creative features of determinate actualities of whatever sort.

It also comes in useful protecting him from the storm of virulent criticism currently raining down on him.

However, Odogwu called on Deltans to see themselves as stakeholders in the government and should come up with useful suggestions and also criticisms that will contribute to the development of the state.

They lead to productive criticisms of data and provide useful possible suggestions.

The MBTI has seen its share of criticism, but corporations and institutions still find the test useful in making hiring decisions and assembling teams.

This is useful because it contains many of the standard criticisms in a succinct statement..

I don't find criticism of others work to be useful.

Lively and full of errata, if not too much useful criticism or context beyond «this scared me when I was a kid» (see above for my identical contribution to this conversation), it's the preferred option over the first commentary reuniting stars Robinson and Gene Barry, who do better than you'd expect (especially Robinson, who's evidently boned up for this project) but still just provide the usual behind - the - scenes stories.

In the next section, I look at academic film criticism that has addressed political filmmaking in the eighties, other farming movies of the period, and, as a useful comparison, films made in the wake of the Depression and Dust Bowl Era.

One very useful aspect of Denby's film criticism, apart from its beautifully chiseled prose style, is the way it reliably, often hilariously, reflects a middle - class or upper - class blindness to the world everyone else inhabits.

In the midst of this booming, buzzing cacophony of acclaim and criticism, it is useful to invoke a modicum of historical perspective.

Over 90 per cent of students had a better understanding of working in a team, presenting ideas to others and accepting that «mistakes and criticism can be useful as they help you learn and improve».

While significant criticism can be made of the formulation (see below) it does provide a useful set of questions and «rules of thumb» to help educators to think about their practice.

Many teachers say they find aspects of the new evaluations useful, especially the constructive criticism from mentors who observe them at work.

When asked about Amrein - Beardsley's criticism of using tests that weren't designed for evaluating teachers, Kane countered that the Gates Foundation MET study used random samples and concluded that differing tests could be used in a way that was «useful in evaluating teachers» and valid predictors of student achievement.

More experienced and / or published writers felt they were put in a position of teaching less experienced members, while not receiving an insightful reading or useful criticism of their own work.

Here's a post I wrote on the subject of Reviewing Fiction, which offers a practical means by which almost anyone can offer useful feedback / criticism:

There was only one other commenter who came close to your level of constructive and useful criticisms.

My one criticism is that the book would have been doubly useful if there were some attempt at assessing the efficacy of the different treatments.

The thing is, criticism is not only useful for specific AAA titles, its essential to tipping the situation of indie art games to the point where the already completed work is culturally elevated and alternative financing sees it as something worth encouraging.

It's useful to think of this as an example of Bayesian priors in action — given that 99 % of the criticisms we hear about climate science are bogus or based on deep confusions about what modeling is for, scepticism is an appropriate first response, but because we are actually scientists, not shills, we are happy to correct real errors — sometimes they will matter, and sometimes they won't.

A common criticism of calculations of fiscal imbalances in perpetuity is that high uncertainty associated with very long - term projections renders such calculations less useful.

Hypothetically, Judith might only be interested in bashing the «consensus» using the almost - all - PR - all - the - time approach of your friend Steve, and still looking at IPCC errors may be useful, like M&M's criticisms of MBH98 were useful.

So criticisms of my testimony, as described well by Richard Kerr, were inevitable and useful.

Possibly not on endpoints, and it is open to some measure of the criticism of it in public — most of which the authors themselves join in — but in the main, the infographic is a brilliant and useful tool that provides a basis for validating Holocene - spanning GCM runs, and the importance of the work is being obscured by the unfortunate circumstances of its portrayal as a propaganda tool in this rush to entrench hardened opinion.

This is useful because it contains many of the standard criticisms in a succinct statement.

A dedicated journal for this purpose would be useful, although really, all journals should have the facility for addressing serious criticism of published papers.

While I agree with many of Rosen's criticisms of guardians, I believe there are some tasks a guardian is uniquely qualified and useful to perform in child custody cases.

The public availability of Chatbase comes at a time when chatbots themselves have faced criticism for not being as useful as promised, and often suffering from usability issues.

The price tag is enough to give all but the most dedicated PC gamers pause, and some of its extra features aren't as useful as promised, but those are minor criticisms in the face of an excellent product.

Our one criticism of the way the G400s performed was that, by default, DPI adjustment buttons were not very useful outside of FPS games.

Having said that, you being so specific in your article is part of what made it more useful than most, as well as more open to criticism, so kudos!