Sentences with phrase «social critics who»

Social critics who proclaim that «real travel» is dead are just too lazy to look for complexities within an interconnected planet — and travel writers who seek to diminish their own presence in the tourist matrix are simply not being honest.

She is also a powerful polemicist: an acerbic social critic who pulls no punches in her articles in Commentary and the Wall Street Journal and her 1992 book If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews.

The statement comes as a protest against the Chinese government's detention of Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist and social critic who has been in custody for the last two months since he was arrested and detained by the Chinese authorities..

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A bad — or even just disappointing — experience can turn a Millennial into a vocal critic who will spread the negative word through social media, reviews, and blogs.

Arnold was, «above all, a diagnostic critic who uses literature instrumentally, to advance social health and human wholeness.»

Social critic Ernest van den Haag argues that any attempt to establish the moral wrongness of the death penalty must show that no crime ever deserves capital punishment; that is, he says, opponents of capital punishment must disprove the contention that there at least some convicted criminals who morally deserve execution.

The large number of people who are involved in small groups, the depth of their involvement, the extent of their caring for each other, and even the degree to which they reach out to others in the wider community all suggest that the social fabric has not unraveled nearly to the extent that many critics have suggested.

King has occasionally compared himself to Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris, two turn - of - the - century social realists who specialized in urban miseries and workmanlike prose, and he loves to quote Norris» riposte to critics: «What should I care if they single me out for sneers and laughter?

Ironically, this is an apt metaphor for Judt's entire life: the son of Eastern European Jews who never felt completely at home in England; an autodidact at Cambridge who never learned historiography or became part of a dedicated «school»; an expert by training in French social thought with serious and evolving interests in Eastern European history; and an American denizen and critic without the faintest bond to the United States.

Though a satirist always risks blowback, both from those who don't get the joke and from some who do, when it comes to social criticism, I tend to follow what we might call the Joe Bob Briggs Doctrine: think of the social critic as a machine gun spraying fire across the cultural landscape, and «when a target screams, you've found the sacred cow.

The Copeland MP, who is a critic of the Labour leader, added: «For many around Corbyn and [Shadow Chancellor John] McDonnell, social media is where they go to hide from the real world and anywhere else where they suspect the electorate might be.»

They include arch critics such as Jess Phillips, who has been outspoken in her criticism of his leadership and consequently received abuse from some Corbyn supporters on social media.

Controversial internet entrepreneur turned cultural critic Andrew Keen, who says the revolution of interactivity and user - generated content on the internet is leading to «less culture, less reliable news and a chaos of useless information» is one contributor certain to ignite debate at the two - day conference, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through its e-Society programme.

It's also a concession by Department of Social Services Commissioner Steven Banks, who was once a fervent critic of the use of hotels to house the city's homeless, when he described the idea as «poorly conceived.»

Represented by National Commissioner and Chairman of the TEI Board, Professor Okechukwu Ibeanu, the INEC Chairman also described the late Professor as a fierce social critic, a fiery activist and an uncompromising patriot who was brutally honest and sincere to a fault.

In addition to determining her sex, however, the study went a step further — and a step too far, say critics, who spoke out via online forums and social media, often anonymously.

[VIDEO ESSAY] Widely trashed by a cabal of critics who didn't know a good film when they saw it, Jack Clayton's 1974 rendition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel beautifully captures its romantic essence and caustic social indictments.

And you have all of these — I wouldn't even say critics — just these social media prognosticators and entertainment industry analyst types who will always immediately criticize that «There aren't enough big names in the competition.

Many of us who watched it in the theater, will watch it a second time and realize that it's not as craptacular as the hype and rage machines of social media and online film critics are making it out to be.

Through social media, FF2 Media highlights not only the women who bring stories to life through film, but also female fans and critics who want to see themselves represented on screen.

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.

However, she was noticed by critics in the small but pivotal role of the Boston University undergrad Erica Albright who dumps Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010).

When the restaurant's owner Riva (Dustin Hoffman) puts the pressure on Casper to play «his greatest hits» and stick to their usual menu, he gives in and predictably receives a horrible review by critic Ramsey Michel (Oliver Platt) who calls him out on having given up on the inspired dishes of his youth to cater to the boring palettes of the social élite.

The second of the standalone Star Wars chapters, after Rogue One, earned a largely positive response from the critics who shared early reactions on social media.

In response, a spokesperson for Rotten Tomatoes told TheWrap, «The authenticity of our critic and user scores is very important to Rotten Tomatoes and as a course of regular business, we have a team of security, network, social and database experts who closely monitor our platforms.

While Annihilation doesn't open in U.S. theaters until the last week of February, those critics who have already seen it have begun weighing in with their (spoiler - free) thoughts on the film via Twitter and social media.

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This system, argued by critics as being the antithesis of the online freedom that many readers are used to, was supposedly going to be a turnoff for what could have otherwise been consumers who readily shared the Times» content within their social media circles.

YA / General Interest: The sharp social satire will not be lost on teens, who by nature are among the world's most observant social critics.

When we pillory critics for saying hard but true things; when our leaders who've championed inclusiveness issue (and defend) bigoted remarks; when we plod from one spiteful spat to the next, played out (performed, really) in online forums and social media with all the requisite snark and ad hominem attacks, it's worth asking what kind of audience are we?

Independent curator and critic Andy Campbell, who confirmed the news, noted that Buchanan was «an artist who was as attentive to her local communities as she was to the social and political architecture of poverty.»

Many of them are significant figures, but not widely known, such as scholar and social critic Harold Cruise (whose portrait graces the cover of the catalog); artist Faith Ringgold; Ron Kajiwara, a graphic designer at Vogue magazine; and civil rights activists James Farmer and Hugh Hurd, who was also an actor.

A critic of institutions and a believer that the artist should act as what he termed an «incidental person» — one who operates in a non-art context, inserting oneself into political and social life — Latham created an oeuvre that paved the way for much socially engaged and politically charged art practice that we see today.

For a time, two critics in particular — who began as friends, and remained in the same social circles for much of their lives — set the stakes of the debates surrounding the maturation of American art that would continue for decades.

The Institute also will award honorary degrees to contemporary artist, curator, and social, political, and cultural critic Ai Weiwei, who will accept his honorary degree via a video presentation which will be screened at the ceremony; architect, engineer, and artist Santiago Calatrava; patron of the arts and education Kathryn C. Chenault, Esq.; and Director Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Fiske Kimball Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Philippe de Montebello.

As an architect, conceptual artist, sculptor, photographer, blogger, Twitterer, interview artist, and cultural critic, he is a sensitive observer of current topics and social problems: a great communicator and networker who brings life into art and art into life.

These camps include abstract painters, social practice artists, conservative and theologically minded artists, various critics and their acolytes, digital media artists, and my personal favorite, the Art School Pedagogists, who «seek to arm their followers with free knowledge to counter and subvert academia's authority.»

For those who might question the relevance of such a show in their lives, Times art critic Christopher Knight delivered an opening line of his review that read: «Given deplorable declarations of American xenophobia now splashed across newspaper front pages, clogging social media outlets and upending television news shows, there could be no more impeccable a moment for a retrospective of Jimmie Durham's art.»

Who can blame freelance critics, whose average income (according to Germany's state social security provider for artists and writers, Künstlersozialkasse), is below the statutory minimum wage, for accepting works that they would never be able to afford from their earnings alone?

If they are truly committed to social justice, these critics ought to voice support for research on those technologies that appear uniquely suited to assist those who are most vulnerable to climate change.

This week on the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, I discuss the events in Texas with two guests: Betsy Branch, a family - law attorney with the Dallas firm of McCurley, Orsinger, McCurley, Nelson & Downing, who serves as attorney ad litem for several children in the West Texas case, and lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer, who has written about the civil liberties aspects of the case at the blogthefreeforall.net.

We also discussed the civil liberties issues raised by the massive raid with lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer, who has written about the case at the blog thefreeforall.net.

Bob Ambrogi: There does still seem to be concern from conservative corners in particular something that's been expressed any number of times over the years, the legal aid lawyers spend too much time litigating, political and social causes and not enough time representing those that they're intended to serve, what do you say to critics of the LSC who raised that issue?

The CanWest News Service article entitled Funding for minority groups to challenge federal laws under review reports that the program, first set up under former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, «has been the target of harsh criticism from social conservatives and critics of so - called judicial activism, who assert the initiative is a slush - fund for left - leaning groups to circumvent the will of elected legislators by challenging them in court».

Critics have pilloried the company for letting Russian operatives spread misinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign, and the new policy was welcomed in Washington, where lawmakers have been working on legislation that would force social media companies to be more transparent about who is buying certain kinds of ads.

«As both a champion and critic of Facebook ads for nearly a decade, I can honestly say I'm excited for the next evolution,» said Merry Morud, who is Associate Creative Director at digital agency Aimclear and currently embedded at Uber as a paid social contractor.