Sentences with phrase «perceptive critics»

Bresson influenced almost every major French filmmaker who came after him (beginning with Louis Malle, his onetime assistant, and Jean - Luc Godard, one of his most perceptive critics), but The Devil, Probably seems to have special significance for those who encountered it at a formative age.

Farron was one of the most perceptive critics of the coalition performance ahead of the election, albeit mostly because Charles Kennedy chose to keep his criticisms to himself on a day - to - day basis.

Marxists have been perceptive critics of psychoanalysis.

But Marx was also a perceptive critic of reform movements.

Alan Smith the former Arsenal and England centre - forward, now a perceptive critic, tells us he admired Iwobi as long ago as last summer when he sparkled for the Gunners in a pre-season game in Singapore.

Edward Garnett, a reader with exquisite taste, a perceptive critic and a writer, played a crucial role in the literary history of Britain between 1887 and 1937.

In grad school, as a perceptive critic Sidney Tillim pointed out, I was just making many paintings on one canvas, and Jake Berthot told me to read The Unknown Masterpiece by Balzac, which addresses obsession with process.

Though Warhol isn't always seen as a conceptual artist, his most perceptive critic, Arthur C. Danto, calls him «the nearest thing to a philosophical genius the history of art has produced.»

One does not have to be an especially perceptive critic to realize that [it] is definitely not a system which produces an environment gratifying for people in general.

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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.

As a perceptive but sarcastic reviewer for the British Critic put it, the author affects to accept the Gospels as authentic but wages war against the Acts of the Apostles.

Frederick Debuyst, the Belgian Benedictine who has been one of the most perceptive voices for and critics of the new currents in church - building, has often used the word «domestic» in pointing to the virtues of the new buildings he admires.

For it would rather seem that because of Whitehead's recognition of the thoroughgoing importance of feelings as the initiation of all judgment and action that he is in a uniquely perceptive position to discuss ethics, if and once, the critic recognizes the centrality of feelings for ethical life.

That should be the conclusion of the more perceptive mother of a larger family; unless she gives way to the silly embarrassment or the groundless inferiority complex that her critics would like to induce in her.

«I thought it was perceptive,» said Portilla of critic Meredith Mendelsohn's observation.

His best criticism was collected in The Changing Forms of Art; long out of print when the Tate published another collection, Painter As Critic, to make available again some of the most perceptive and trenchant English criticisms of 20th century modernism.