Sentences with phrase «sharp critic»

But the most outstanding of the American intellectuals who began to emerge in the 19th century outside the ranks of the Protestant clergy were often sharp critics of Anglo - Saxon pretensions.

But at his news conference, Farhadi expressed sorrow and unease at the plight of his countryman Jafar Panahi, who in films like «The Circle» and «Offside» has been a consistently sharp critic of Iran's social policies.

Samuel Fuller spent most of his career in B pictures, creating ultrapersonal, formula - defying films that got little notice from workaday reviewers but impressed sharp critics like Andrew Sarris and Manny Farber.

Civil liberties advocates have been among the loudest voices pushing for restorative justice, and were sharp critics of Bloomberg's discipline policy, which they said helped create a «school to prison pipeline» of minority students across the city.

Icahn has been a sharp critic of the EPA in the past.

Ali, a sharp critic of Islamist violence and of what she sees as Europe's limp response to it, claims that the rioters represent mainstream Muslim views.

Beginning with his 1967 book Death at an Early Age, Jonathan Kozol has been a sharp critic of American education.

As a participant in the UN, however, the Holy See today frequently finds itself allied — notably on population, development, and family issues — with that organization's sharpest critics.

The editors declare that «even her sharpest critics should admit that the causes she chooses to promote are ones that really matter.»

The good news for anybody wanting a serious critique of the Bucs is this: Nobody is going to be a sharper critic when it comes to how they play because I want to see them do well.

DeFrancisco is considered a conservative Republican and a sharp critic of incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is seeking a third term.

Cuomo has frequently blasted lawmakers, and was a sharp critic against the failed attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act last spring.

Collins, in contrast, has been a sharp critic of international trade deals which, he has said, have stripped the district of manufacturing jobs.

The delay sets up yet another clash between the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder of Success Academy, the city's largest charter network, and one of the mayor's sharpest critics.

Only recently a sharp critic of Hillary Clinton, Teachout of late has joined the team, however tentatively.

Holland has struggled to win support, but DeFrancisco and his allies say he is a sharper critic — he lit into Cuomo during his own announcement in January — and pooh - pooh Molinaro for being coy with his candidacy and his positions on issues.

In a report published last year, the Black Institute — run by Bertha Lewis, a former ally of Mayor Bill de Blasio who has since become a sharp critic — noted that unlike the city, the state has not released any data beyond the split between women - owned businesses and minority - owned businesses.

While Jolly is a Republican, he has emerged as a sharp critic of President Donald Trump, which could help negate any backlash of the pick from the Democratic base.

O'Reilly has been a sharp critic of Trump during much of the campaign.

The group has also become closely associated with Eva S. Moskowitz, the chief executive of Success Academy, the city's biggest charter school network, and one of Mr. de Blasio's sharpest critics.

«This so - called «free - college» plan is a hoax, trapping people in New York state to benefit the governor's presidential ambitions,» said Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, who has emerged as one of the governor's sharpest critics.

Such a role would pit the former Republican mayor against Andrew Cuomo, one of Indian Point's sharpest critics.

On the campaign trail last year, Trump was a sharp critic of the H - 1B program, vowing last March that he would «end forever the use of the H - 1B as a cheap labor program.»

Nicolelis, who has established a neuroscience laboratory in Natal, in Brazil's northeast region, has at times been a sharp critic of Brazil's system for funding science, calling it closed - minded and bureaucratic.

His sharpest critics say that he cherry - picked and misinterpreted his pollen data.

One of the sharpest critics of Cuvier's theory of cataclysms was Jean - Baptiste Lamarck (1744 to 1829), who was convinced that all living things had originated from simple organisms, and were therefore related to each other.

Now he's one of the field's sharpest critics.

Though a sincere advocate of broad tolerance and expansive personal liberties, Macedo has long been a sharp critic of the view that our common political life should merely provide means for all to pursue their individual, private goals, whatever those may be.

But more importantly, we are seeing the emergence of new and better tools for assessing student performance, as Anya Kamenetz, author of a forthcoming book on the history and future of assessment, and a sharp critic of high - stakes testing, recently observed:

Fine was joined by Joe Konrath, an iconic self - publisher and, at times, sharp critic of the Guild; Scott Turow, seen by indies as at times an industry apologist while he was president of the Guild; and Barbara Freethy, the biggest seller of the Kindle Million Club, with some 6 million books sold as an indie since she left trade publishing.

shows Drexler to be both a sharp critic of and a joyful participant in American culture of the past 50 years.

House Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R - IL): Shimkus is a sharp critic of the EPA, but praised how the air chief navigated the EPA's cross-state air pollution rule.

I'm mentioned only briefly, but the article calls me «the IPCC's sharpest critic» and links to my IPCC exposé on Amazon's German website.