Sentence examples for almost as critical from inspiring English sources

The friendships that develop between like-minded readers are almost as critical to the trip as an author's participation.

He was, however, almost as critical of the new order as he had been of the Soviet system.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS Almost the entire aging offensive line has to be upgraded, but improving a dormant rush is almost as critical.

But something has happened to cause Charnes to question her "practice" (as theorists like to call their work) in terms almost as critical as Kermode.

These results were verified with available DORIS and GPS results, as the integrity of DPOD2005 is almost as critical as its accuracy.

Baldwin has been almost as critical of Himes ("probably the most uninteresting and awkward prose I have read in recent years," he wrote of one Himes novel), but this is their first face-to-face encounter.

Let us consider the problems of the long novel, in which the heft is apt to come in for almost as much critical examination as the content.

After his expulsion, Solzhenitsyn and his wife led a secluded life in Vermont and he surprised many people by revealing himself as an arch-conservative, who was almost as harshly critical of the West's permissive ways as he was of the Soviet system.

The fourth-year pro (and possible first-team All-Pro) bolted for a 70-yard score on Baltimore's first possession, a 51-yard touchdown late in the fourth quarter and, almost just as critical, a hard-fought 15-yarder on the first play of Baltimore's final offensive series, which helped milk the clock.

Almost as many are critical of Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco's response, and more than half disapprove of Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who is up for re-election in April.

The prisoner releases come amid a flurry of bilateral meetings and a significant warming in the Afghan-Pakistan relationship, which is almost universally seen as critical to hopes of peaceful settlement in the 11-year Afghan conflict.