Sentence examples for Direct critique from inspiring English sources

Is this a direct critique of free trade and its impact on China?

Kargaltsev said his photograph is a direct critique of the image of Zhukova, which he described as "an outrageous and tasteless gaffe".

In the paper, he included a direct critique of a renowned study in behavioral economics that suggested people often hold on to an item they own (a house, for example) in the vain hope that its value will rise.

The surprisingly direct critique, coming in an interview with the Atlantic, represents Clinton's most forceful effort yet to distance herself from an unpopular administration ahead of her expected 2016 campaign.

A week after the court issued its decision in January in the case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Mr. Obama delivered an unusually direct critique in his State of the Union address, with justices in the audience.

It was pure, unadulterated fear-mongering, based on a devious strategy to convince the American people that Saddam's ability to provide nuclear weapons to al Qaeda justified immediate war". Hadley yesterday offered no direct critique of the prewar intelligence and instead said that at the time it was compelling evidence that also convinced the Clinton administration and other governments.

And as they settled into overstuffed chairs, Mr. Bush and Mr. Clinton became something of an ex-presidents' support group, avoiding direct critiques of each other, or, for that matter, their future club member, President Obama ("I want you to understand that anything I say is not to be critical of my successor," Mr. Bush said, "there are plenty of critics in American society").

However, such direct informed critique is missing from these demonstrations.

Here, direct criticism is often taken as a very personal critique".

Having assumed that there are objective moral obligations, Pascal directs his critique, both in the Provincial Letters and in his contributions to the Écrits des Curés de Paris, to the claim, attributed to Jesuit casuists, that one can change the moral character of actions by changing one's intention at the time of their performance.

But if Howard Dean drops out of the race soon, Mr. Bush may abandon lobbing overhead shots, White House aides say, just as Mr. Kerry has been directing his critiques at Mr. Bush.