Sentence examples for acts of criticism from inspiring English sources

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

As addressed to others in a public by a speaker as a reflective participant in a practice, criticism certainly entails the ability to take up the normative attitudes of multiple pragmatic perspectives in the communication in which acts of criticism are embedded.

It was probably Philip's last act of criticism – absolutely, and typically, generous to the end.

Sometimes falling in love is as much an act of criticism as criticism is an act of love.

"Sometimes falling in love is as much an act of criticism as criticism is an act of love," indeed!

In "an act of criticism and creativity combined," he changed it, apparently at Kennedy's request, to "such as she was, such as she will become".

Though "Inception" is, ultimately, an inconsequential cinematic experience, it reflects the contemporary aesthetic landscape like an act of criticism on the wing.

It was no arm's-length act of criticism but a self-assertion, with all the bravado and the sense of inadequacy that it implied.

The act of criticism is necessarily connected with what the artist is supposed to be doing, and as I haven't the remotest idea what Ornette Coleman is supposed to be doing all criticism is stilled.

I like to think that it was, in some gloriously liberated sense, an inspired act of criticism itself: a passionate, flesh-and-blood, real-life response to Jackson's film.

Michael Billington, meanwhile, found proof that Hytner's thesis wouldn't "stand up in court" and worried about "the implicit assumption behind Hytner's ill-judged remarks: that the act of criticism is itself an unwarranted slur on artistic purity".