Sentences with phrase «scathing indictments of»

Two recent reports on City Hall's role in the questionable lifting of deed restrictions on a nursing home property issued scathing indictments of both process and personnel in the de Blasio administration.

The ultimate stockbroker film, of course, was 1987's Wall Street, Oliver Stone's scathing indictment of capitalism.

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).

Drawing on several legal figures, Chandler informs readers of the «fierce debate» that Scalia's «scathing indictment of American society as dominated by secular «worldly wise» enemies of Christianity» has provoked.

A bestseller in Europe, The Conflict is a scathing indictment of a stealthy zealotry that cheats women of their full potential.

While Lipton and activist organizations — like Make the Road Action, a leading immigrants» rights group that endorsed Nixon on Friday — were careful to blame the crack - up on Cuomo, at least one labor leader offered a more scathing indictment of the WFP.

While the content provides a devastating and scathing indictment of the world of consulting, it sometimes seems as if Stewart is less inclined to pass judgement than the facts he presents demand.

After the nonprofit investigative news outlet ProPublica released a scathing indictment of Democrats» manipulation of the redistricting process, Burton called it «a complete [expletive] fabrication.»

We begin with a compelling love story that evolves into a dissection of marriage in all its facets, a thrilling possible - murder mystery, a scathing indictment of American national media and... well to go much further I'd wade into spoiler territory and honestly, this film is best experienced without them.

In chronicling the journey of Anwar Congo and his cohorts to re-construct mass killings in the style of their favorite films, The Act of Killing acts as both a scathing indictment of American popular movies and a celebration of the power of the camera to move and enlighten.

Fed Up is a scathing indictment of America's food industry and it arrives at a time when we are in a state of crisis.

Both films are also darkly comic, though Point Blank is more socially pungent, offering a darkly scathing indictment of corporate America, where crooks are indistinguishable from so - called legitimate businessmen.

Set in pre-revolution Egypt in 2011, this Sundance winner is a scathing indictment of corruption, as uncovered in the aftermath of a murder.

They also deliver a scathing indictment of the media, American class consciousness, and its corrosive impact on a superlative athlete who was apparently on thin ice from the get go.

It has the nerve, the sensitivity and the unmitigated genius to tap into genuine artistic befuddlement, and root it within a scathing indictment of Hollywood thought.

Overall, Spotlight amounts to a scathing indictment of the Catholic Church as little more than a meat market racket masquerading as a religious institution.

A historical saga and a romance, Lilli de Jong is both a scathing indictment of societal biases and a testament to the redemptive strength of a mother's love.

That such bruising poverty can exist in the world's richest country is a scathing indictment of our regulatory policies.

Kojima has yet to comment publicly on this surprising development, instead tweeting a picture of a grilled cheese sandwich that may or may not also be a scathing indictment of world politics, and society and shit.

Each painting is as much a tutorial in flora and fauna as it is as a scathing indictment of the wrongs committed by nineteenth - century industrialists or — locating the work in the present — contemporary American consumer society.

The play is a scathing indictment of grotesque government and source for many an allegory and «puppet transgression,» buttons that many of the artists in The Puppet Show similarly activate.

In 2013, renowned philosopher Pascal Bruckner released The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings, a scathing indictment of the contemporary environmental belief system.

Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Bingham delivered a scathing indictment of the UK and US invasion of Iraq in 2003 in his address to the British Institute of International and Comparative Law this week.

In a scathing indictment of the over-reaching effects of ERISA preemption, Judge William Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts implored Congress to amend ERISA's civil enforcement provision to allow recovery against utilization review providers and insurers.

A scathing indictment of Australia's failure to address the high incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been published in an international journal, BMJ Globa... Read more

A scathing indictment of Australia's failure to address the high incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been published in an international journal, BMJ Global Health.

The Redfern Statement amounts to a scathing indictment of the Federal Government's efforts to date, describing the 2014 Federal Budget as «a disaster» for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as well as noting the damage caused by policy upheaval and instability.

Not exact matches

At the core of the film is a story about the physical and emotional abuse disgraced figure skating champion Tonya Harding endured throughout her life from her mother and her husband, but the film also explores the very traditional, staid world of competitive figure skating, while also offering a scathing indictment on the behaviour of the media.

While NPR's Westervelt criticizes Kane for making a «pretty scathing and strong indictment» of America's education system, what Kane does not understand writ large is that the very solutions for which Kane advocates — using VAM - based measurements to fire and hire bad and good teachers, respectively — are really no different than the «stronger accountability» measures upon which we have relied for the last 40 years (since the minimum competency testing era) within this alleged «echo chamber.»

Some of the artists mine popular culture to produce scathing or defamatory indictments of consumer mores; others take the moral corruptions of public and political acts as their defamed subject; and others practice détournement — using elements of well - known media to create new work with a different or opposing message — to elevate injury and injustice into the realm of high art.