Sentences with phrase «withering reviews»
It attracted withering reviews - «stylish doodles,» said the New York Times - and no sales.
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One of his most withering reviews came in response to his 2007 show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which Roberta Smith of The New York Times described as being full of «decorative pleasantries.»
The victim of withering reviews, Pan has also suffered from bad press after Wright cast the white actor Rooney Mara in the role of Tiger Lily, traditionally a Native American character.
Despite some withering reviews — Variety called it an «unabashed vanity project» — «Pieces» caught the attention of Steven Soderbergh at the 1997 Slamdance Film Festival.
«Brain on Fire,» starring Chloe Grace Moretz, debuted at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival to mostly withering reviews and then sold straight to streaming platform Netflix, with no theatrical release.
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It was an unnerving look that irrevocably rattled more than one interlocutor, typically some poor employee undergoing a withering product review, and it stared out from every Fortune or Time cover he graced.
In the 1970s and 1980s, his essays and fiction regularly took withering aim at the hypocrisies and absurdities of colonialism, and likewise at apartheid - era life in his native South Africa (this included, incidentally, a thoughtful, if critical, review of Dispensations, Richard John Neuhaus's own book about South Africa).
I do feel he should not just wither out of the situation by leaving, but give a real good review on the field of himself, before he can make statements about leaving.
A withering Variety review blasted «the overall ludicrousness of a film whose primary goal, apparently, is to convince us that the freakish Wiseau is actually a normal, everyday sort of guy.»
Step up to the table like real men or women and subject your work to the withering scrutiny of peer review.
The exception for general legal questions of substantial importance is narrow, deference on Charter interpretations has taken a bite out of the exception for constitutional questions, and jurisdictional review is withering away.
Thank you to Marjorie Withers for her review and insights on early versions of the manuscript.