Sentences with phrase «written about the critics»

Such an essay could never be written about the critics and artists of today: the crucial role of ratification has been almost entirely outsourced to the market — the most successful and expensive artists are entirely critic - proof.

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Some of my Christian critics on the Notre Dame campus agree with Prof. Turner that I have written about a problem that does not exist.

In my short span as a music critic, I've come to learn that nothing upsets people more quickly and severely than writing opinions about music.

The great literary critic Frank Kermode wrote of «The Figure in the Carpet» that «Vereker's secret — «the thing for the critic to find» — is not, we infer, the sort of thing the celibate and impotent may look for when they speculate about sex.

In the «The Maniac,» in Orthodoxy, Chesterton writes about the tendency for professional critics to go mad.

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.

But the only thing that each of us can and should do is what we each must do ultimately alone, if we have vocations to be writers: Go off and write out of the very fullness of human experience about the very fullness of human experience and hope to find and affect contemporary readers and the greater world, and in the meantime leave the distracting and finally pointless diagnoses of who were the Catholic writers, and how much, and how well, how little, how importantly, to the critics and scholars.

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.

For example, one of the charges against Honest to God, almost as soon as it appeared, was that John Robinson had said nothing in that book about «future life» — although the critic must have forgotten that not many years before the bishop had written, while still a theological teacher, a treatise entitled In the End God which is a considered and very interesting and suggestive discussion of exactly that subject as well as of the related aspects of «the last things».

And when I wrote about the General Electric Company and Schenectady, it seemed a fantasy of the future to critics who had never seen the place.

Award - winning journalist, arts critic and record producer Dennis Polkow holds degrees in music theory, composition, philosophy and religious studies from DePaul University, Chicago, and has written frequently about religion and the arts for the Chicago Tribune and is currently on the adjunct faculty of Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, IL.

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.

Few critics would seem more qualified to write about contemporary art than Eleanor Heartney, and her latest book, with cover endorsements from Arthur Danto and Andrew Greeley, has the look of an important contribution.

Boyd wrote a post about Girard's Scapegoat Theory in which he said his critics misunderstood him, and he went on to point out his issues with Mimetic Theory.

I assume that Douglas's tongue was firmly planted in his cheek when he wrote this assessment, but his comment hints at a wide range of opinion about the subject, from those people who believe, like cookbook author Manju Shivraj Singh, that «the tongue becomes a slave to the flavor of curry — it is an addiction,» to critics who view curry as an insipid yellow powder that is turned into a floury, yellow cream sauce.

Written by the Times's City Critic (aka Ariel Kaminer), it shares some good news about the current state of New York City school food, which began to undergo reform six or seven years ago.

Written by the Times» City Critic (aka Ariel Kaminer), it shares some good news about the current state of New York City school food, which began to undergo reform six or seven years ago.

Neither he nor the reader knows how the coalition will end in May 2015, making this exercise rather like a theatre critic writing about an unfinished four - act play that he has only read and seen after just two acts and the intermission.

The 140 - character blurts on Twitter will have the potential to crater stocks, worry populations, advertise his rallies and products, and give his fans cues about how to pillory his critics, writes Newsday's Dan Janison.

«Sad and unfortunate» were vintage Pataki administration responses to anything political and / or negative about the then - governor said by a critic or opponent; I can't count the number of times I wrote «sad and unfortunate» while covering that administration for the TU).

For a man that has written so extensively about courage, no - one could foresee Brown doing what John Major did in 1995 when he resigned to face down his critics.

For more, here's Cassino writing about the campaign on his blog, and here's Wolf hitting back at his «anti-first amendment» critics.

Some critics suggest that you romanticize your subjects — that you write sentimentally, even joyously, about some very sad cases.

She created the blog Modern Love Guide, where she has written articles and posted podcasts about healthy relationships, voluntary simplicity, body image, divorce, turning 40, early retirement, battles with the internal critic, gratitude and following your dreams.

His fourth film under his 20 - year ban is «an artful, surprising and thrillingly intelligent story about a few women trying to make a difference, forging bonds of solidarity in quiet defiance of the repressive, small - minded men in their rural village,» writes L.A. Times critic Justin Chang, who also finds «its insights casually profound.»

It's a coming - of - age story about 15 - year - old youth, adapted from a novel by film critic François Bégaudeau, who wrote and starred in Laurent Cantet's 2008 Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Class.

They're critics because they like to write about movies.

It's an interesting enough trip and admittedly, it was great fun listening to critics discuss their love for not only the movies themselves but writing about them but the film lacks any conviction.

he 71st Cannes Film Festival is underway (May 8 - 19), and L.A. Times critic Justin Chang is there, seeing as many movies as possible and writing about it for a day - by - day, film - by - film diary.

You wrote another subjective opinion I hated about SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK - a weird thing for a critic who is assigned to review films to do - so clearly the precedent is set and all of your subjective opinions are null and void.

Blogger and critic Chris Williams has been writing about film and faith for more than a decade.

Usually, whenever critics start writing about films in purely mechanical terms -LRB-»em otional batteries») it means that those mechanical systems failed to work.

While it's true that much will rest on how the critics see these films, there is no doubt that these two roles, along with Christine, Queen of Katwe, and Florence Foster Jenkins stand out from the pack because it is so unusual now to see women cast this way, much less written about in this way.

A British delegation of dramatists, directors, theatre professionals (and this critic) had descended on the city for a weekend conference about the creation and nurturing of a new writing culture.

Eloise Ross writes and teaches about film in Melbourne, Australia, and is a member of the Australian Film Critics Association.

Longtime Argentine film critic Hernán Guerschuny writes what he knows in his mild directorial debut about a film critic who falls in love via all the rom - com clichés he despises in print.

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.

I'm a lot less snobby about comedy than some of my fellow critics and won't write something off for being immature or crude (Due Date and Horrible Bosses cracked my recent list of the top 100 films of the half - decade).

Male critics write slightly longer reviews, on average, about films directed by and / or with at least one woman writer (average of 485 words) than about films directed and / or written by males (average of 473 words).

Reviews female critics write about films with female directors and / or written by at least one woman are considerably shorter (average of 480 words).

As per usual — a phrase that critics have to invent at least a dozen variations on when writing about Hong — this creates a sense of fluid causality, which matters a great deal in a movie that's largely about people trying to recapture moments that happened only minutes ago, but are already slipping away.

Conversely, a higher proportion of the total reviews written by male critics were about films directed and written exclusively by men.

A training program on film criticism directed at writers, critics, bloggers, journalists and filmmakers who share an interest at writing critical reviews about films.

The feature - length commentary is a group effort from second - unit director Terry Sanders, the critic F.X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, who saved the movie's rushes, and historian Preston Neal Jones, who wrote a book about the production.

Former Chronicle Pop Music Critic Joel Selvin, who wrote the biography about Berns, also wrote the narration for the movie.

As a critic, he writes on his website The Establishing Shot and hosts the «Page 2 Screen» podcast on the Curious About Screenwriting Network for the International Screenwriters» Association.

Extras: Two optional English narrations, including one by actor Roy Scheider; audio commentary from 2008 featuring Schrader and producer Alan Poul; interviews from 2007 and 2008 with Bailey, producers Tom Luddy and Mata Yamamoto, composer Philip Glass, and production designer Eiko Ishioka; interviews from 2008 with Mishima biographer John Nathan and friend Donald Richie; audio interview from 2008 with co-screenwriter Chieko Schrader; interview excerpt from 1966 featuring Mishima talking about writing; «The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima,» a 55 - minute documentary from 1985 about the author; trailer; a booklet featuring an essay by critic Kevin Jackson, a piece on the film's censorship in Japan, and photographs of Ishioka's sets.

In addition to reviewing films and writing interviews and features about the industry, she helps anchor the Star's coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival and Hot Docs International and does First ReelMovies, a weekly webcast review at thestar.com with Star movie critic Peter Howell.

Tonkin charts Greene's love for film through the decades — from his years as a famed film critic (during which he wrote, Tonkin says, «perhaps the most notorious notice in the history of film criticism» about Shirley Temple) to his days as a movie insider and collaborator with such luminaries as Alexander Korda, Alberto Cavacanti, and, of course, Reed, with whom he made his most lasting mark on the medium.