Sentences with phrase «scathing pieces»

A couple of months ago, Farhad Manjoo published a scathing piece in The New York Times that claimed the hottest tech startups these days aim to «help people on the lowest rungs of the 1 percent live like their betters in the 0.1 percent.»

Nouriel Roubini's EconoMonitor website published a scathing piece by University of Oregon Professor Tim Duy on Friday (later tweeted by Roubini), in which Duy refers to a lack of concrete steps taken by European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi as «epic» and «almost funny if it wasn't so sad.»

Now, perhaps someone will attempt to come out with a scathing piece and I hope it happens, because the n = 1 are in the thousands worldwide, and there is no stopping this tide.

As a traditionally published bestselling author, Rainfield made news earlier this year for being instrumental in joining with other authors in the growth of the #YASaves hashtag on Twitter, complete with essay contests and a letter writing campaign following a scathing piece in the Wall Street Journal about the inappropriateness and pointless plot lines in young adult literature being published today.

As the conversation over lockboxes continues to ramp up, a story of one teen who got caught up in online gambling and spent over $ 10,000 on video game microtransactions is drawing the attention of many — as is this scathing piece at Polygon taking EA's poor apologies over Star Wars Battlefront 2 to task.

Professor Peter Brooks, from the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, also wrote a scathing piece for Croakey imagining a future «Royal Commission into Premature Deaths» caused by the budget.

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In a scathing article in The New York Observer, writer Christopher Byron dubbed the offering «a piece of junque du jour» and «the Wall Street equivalent of landfill.»

what a useless piece of writing — no information other than scathing something thats pretty groundbreaking far as I can see.

The Orthodox newspaper Hamodia ran a scathing opinion piece that accused the assemblyman of paying for the Democratic nod in NY - 9 with «his very soul,» noting in particular his «yes» vote on same - sex marriage.

Newspapers have printed scathing editorials, and unflattering analysis pieces on a daily basis.

«We do not single out any populace, black, white, yellow or brown for selective enforcement,» Bratton wrote in a scathing Daily News op - ed piece last month.

In a new piece by the New York Times, senior opinion editor Honor Jones wrote a scathing review of the workout pants accusing women of only wearing them «because they're sexy» — not because they're practical or comfortable.

In episode 207, a bonus second - season edition comprised of material produced for the «This American Life» web site, a look at comedians and their audiences includes segments about unknown comics performing for a rowdy crowd at a club in the middle of nowhere, and a piece about Mike Birbiglia, a standup with a scathing routine about his worst gig ever.

When the film premiered at the festival on May 19, TheWrap called it «a long, scathing, brilliantly funny film with a jaw - dropping set piece... It is a bold, generous and marvelously constructed exploration of its director's favorite question: «Aren't we humans a sorry lot?»»

The highlight of the entire special is either Chris Rock forced against his will to join in on a duet with Bill Murray all out of tune, or Michael Cera taking a scathing shot at last year's ill received (and in my personal opinion, a boring piece of crap) The Monuments Men.

When the scathing opinion pieces started rolling in, and the angry protest signs went up, Common Core, at first, couldn't understand the fuss.

Readers with long memories will be struck by the way some of the set pieces resemble the scathing satire of a young William S. Burroughs.

The Law Revue piece, which Silverglate says was scathing, parodied an article just published in the Law Review that had been written by Mary Joe Frug, a feminist law professor who had been working on the article when she was murdered outside her Cambridge apartment.

Unless Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith is shopping a book proposal, the scathing opinion piece he wrote announcing his resignation in Wednesday's New York Times is a lesson in how not to quit, career experts say.

Lainey Gossip is pretty scathing about the article: «So that now all he can do, the man who once was Hollywood's most powerful star, is call up PEOPLE and beg for a puff piece.