Sentences with phrase «thinking about his critics»

An easy target but it may amuse some of you: a writer in The Daily Telegraph pretends to be Dan Brown thinking about his critics as his book Inferno appeared.

My favourite screenwriter, Christopher Hampton once said that «asking a writer what s / he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp - post what it feels about dogs».

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Because of Tarantino's proclivity for sadistic bloodshed and his lack of any meaningful teleology, Christian film critics rarely approve of, or think critically about, his filmography.

I think that drawing conclusions about an author's life from his works usually reveals more about the critic than the author.

But I figured that you were using it to soften Christian bigots using their own jargon, so I didn't care — I know you don't think about people the way the critics worried you may.

I think that much of the critics» distress about changes in church - related higher education rests ultimately on their epistemological concerns: Christian higher education, the scholarship it produces and the students it graduates should be substantively different from its secular counterpart.

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.

When all allowance has been made for these limiting factors — the chances of oral transmission, the effect of translation, the interest of teachers in making the sayings «contemporary,» and simple human fallibility — it remains that the first three gospels offer a body of sayings on the whole so consistent, so coherent, and withal so distinctive in manner, style content, that no reasonable critic should doubt, whatever reservations he may have about individual sayings, that we find reflected here the thought of a single, unique teacher.

Doubts about the religious adequacy of Whitehead's treatment of evil were raised very early by critics of process thought.

By turning to the Dominicans, I thought, critics could embrace all the salutary points Dreher had made about the need to withdraw from the world in order to form Christian communities, while also giving greater emphasis to the dominical command to make missionary disciples of all nations.

Sometimes I think that I couldn't write half the brave stuff I wrote in «Jesus Feminist» now because I have all the caveats and «but - what - abouts» and critics in my head too much.

«Before I knew it, I was spending all my free time thinking about wedding favors and invitations, centerpieces and bridal registries, cakes and photographers,» writes film critic Carina Chocano in Altared.

MacIntyre sometimes can not resist wickedly confirming his critics» prejudices about his work, but those who refuse to take MacIntyre seriously because they think him antimodern fail to understand the fundamental philosophical arguments that shape his position.

Some of our best philosophers and social critics have thought that our troubles do indeed stem from our loss of any consistent and coherent way of talking about the things that matter deeply.

The ability to reason, in the philosophical sense of thinking critically about one's beliefs, develops only if a man keeps critical company so that a critic is incorporated in his own consciousness.

In Hinduism, in Sufism, in Christian mysticism,... we find the same recurring note, so that there is about mystical utterances an eternal unanimity which ought to make a critic stop and think, and which brings it about that the mystical classics have, as has been said, neither birthday nor native land.

This will not be the first time that First Thoughts readers have heard from me on the virtues of Mr. Lionel Trilling, but readers interested in learning more about one of America's greatest critics and intellectuals can check out my piece in today's Wall Street Journal....

I think it is fair to say that a host of important literary questions about the Gospels have been held in abeyance for a century and a half, awaiting the work of the source, form and redaction critics.

It's interesting that Driscoll writes a piece about how others are criticizing his book — as he is one of the most vocal critics of others who don't fall into his view of how he thinks people should act and be.

I'm never a very good critic about my own cooking... always thinking things could be a little better or aren't quite right, but I have to say that I thought this was really, really excellent.

On a long and lonesome highway, into Omaha You can listen to the critics moanin» out their one - note song You can think about the Spartans, or the «Frogs you beat the night before

More surprising, however, is the fact that the former Leicester City star and current football pundit Robbie Savage thinks the same about this possible transfer, as he has no love for Arsenal and has often come across as not really liking us, often being one of the harshest critics of Arsene Wenger, individual players or the whole team in general.

Or have you read about it and think his critics are just over-reacting?

There was a lot of speculation about whether the Swedish striker would thrive in the English Premier League this season, with his age and supposed lack of mobility as well as the need to adapt to a different style of football all brought up as possible obstacles, but I think most Arsenal fans will have to agree that the 35 - year old has answered his critics emphatically.

You read his story about how he gets his motivation and you might think he focuses too much on his critics.

Why can't people for God sake understand the angle the young man was coming from, this is a guy who has come out to suggest what he feel will be of great glory to the team, futbol is about winning trophy not the samba, champaign, tick taka or jambody style Of playwill be accredited to ur cv after retirement, every professional player will wants to be identify with a medal, mind you he have limited years to his career, therefore we should not allow sentment or affections we have for our various teams erode the basic objective of the game.we should also think about their future too, this guys are proffessionals which young lads are looking up to and questions will be ask tomorrow about theirs playing days.can people tell me why pele and some other famous players in the world both present and past are been celebrated today the answer is simply cos they are successful in their career and have trophy to show for it in their respective clubs or countries, why the complain in nigeria?its simply cos our team for quite a while now has not recorded any troph to her glory, fans should learn how to call a spade a spade in order to balance situation and also for better performance of the team.why then did arsene wenger hurridly went to buy more experienced players after the poor outing he had at the beggining of last season?this players know beta cos they are at the centre of it all, we don't have to trash what they say, we fans are only watching from screen, in as much as we beliv in arsen wenger, we should also know that without the boys no arsen wenger, fans should try to reason along with the players too.an hypotetical cases of similar to rvp has been tested by some players and have put them right over the coach and the team.so, whatelse does the fans needs to prove that futbol has gone beyond living in the past.for example, fabrigas and nasri were able to prove their critics wrong.thank God for them, we should always be objective in our submission, how else do we expect players to show their commitment to a team that was in 8 on the log table and later fought their way back to 3rd this boys are commendable and deserve to be encouraged, I think is high time the manager and the mgt board of arsenal futbol team get to know that game of futbol has gone beyond two teams domination, its now like a pendilum which can swing either way only with a powerful insrument called money.you can't eat ur cake and have.

After I thought about it, I explained to my partner that while there is so much new research / things discovered about breastmilk and its properties, I told her, that as a field, Breastfeeding Medicine is constantly battling critics and having to «prove» our medicine.

Mayor Bloomberg, who is a veteran critic of the city Board of Elections (whose politically - connected leaders routinely accuse him of trying to starve them out of existence), was not shy about sharing his less - than - charitable thoughts about reports of widespread problems at polling sites throughout the five boroughs.

Find out more about what the Excelsior Scholarship really means and why critics think it's not enough.

While critics point out the dangers of throwing money at your problems without careful thought, it's a good sign that the world's billionaires are starting an important conversation about philanthropy and activism.

I think low carbers are about their biggest critics.

Never mind all the positive things I COULD have thought about my own appearance, the self - critic in me was (and often still is) the loudest and most obnoxious voice chattering away in my head.

The user reviews are more predictable if you think about it because its the critics job to watch films whereas its our choice to see these films and i think this film is really good.

Inside The NFL, Season 6, Episode 10: When asked if he ever wants to lash out at critics, Tony Romo takes the high road, but that doesn't mean he hasn't thought about what he'd like to say.

Maybe critics gave it so much crap because this season is about religion based murders but I honestly think it's the second best season of the show (behind Season 4 of course).

A romantic side story, sappy backgrounds for everyone on the mission, carnivorous creatures, an unambiguous ending; exactly what about this movie do critics and early - viewers think is so incredibly high above us that only 1 % will be able to grasp it?

Jim Rome On Showtime, Season 2, Episode 4: When asked if he ever wants to lash out at critics, Tony Romo takes the high road, but that doesn't mean he hasn't thought about «flaunting his wife» in the past.

Maybe critics gave it so much crap because this season is about religion based murders but I honestly think it's the second best season of the

I think critics often forget what movies are really about and what they mean to an audience.

Now that almost every single film critic in the country has published their top ten list, we can sit back, relax and think about the upcoming year, a year which will bring forth more sequels than ever before and an industry that — supposedly — keeps shrinking in ideas and creative freedom.

Whereas other Cahiers critics may have bandied the term about as a stylistic flourish (Godard being a prime culprit), Rivette's writings show a deep, sustained engagement with Georg W. F. Hegel's thought.

Critic Matt Zoller Seitz noted that The Darjeeling Limited is, «not about epiphanies, it's about thinking you've had epiphanies.»

I think the critics in America are like the critic in the movie... They have lost touch with what Movies are all about, a brief escape from reality, with fun music and a happy ending.

I don't think I'm cut out to be the type of film critic — and, really, I don't know how you'd be any other type of film critic — who sees every movie and has an opinion about them.

For all of you that rely on a critic, think about yourself.

Nevertheless there has been a discernible change in Leigh's work since his last dysfunctional - family opus, Life Is Sweet — a change well described by Australian critic Adrian Martin in a recent letter to me: «I think that as a certain angry anti-Thatcher 80s politics has drained from Leigh's work, he has gravitated to either the bombastic nihilism of Naked (a film I have incredibly mixed feelings about) or the soft - heartedness of Secrets and Lies.»

In my 20 + years as a film critic I think Roger's approach to his work is probably the closest to what I was aiming at in my fumbling attempts to write about cinema.

May 20, 2011 • You may think all singing competition shows are the same, but as critic Eric Deggans sees it, NBC's new entry, The Voice, is a counterpoint to exactly the things people complain about with American Idol.

The only good news about Maps to the Stars being in the background of the Oscar race is that I don't have to pay attention to what critics think about it.

Though they're not allowed to give full reviews, critics can give spoiler - free impressions filled with quick thoughts and overall feelings about the movie.