Henry Abbott of ESPN.com called it a "flip-flop" while the always controversial Jason Whitlock of FoxSports.com was a bit more to the point, labeling Jordan a "sellout".
— Julia Moskin Eater: Q. and A. with the importer Zev Rovine, who offers thoughts on the always controversial subject of natural wine.
Google X's raison d'être is embracing far-out ideas, so it's no surprise, really that former director Mike Cassidy is wading into the decidedly choppy and always controversial waters of nuclear energy.
Join us next time for part III, which is going to be the always "controversial" Overrated of 2012 list.
"Even before it was ever premiered the piece was always controversial precisely because of its relationship to spirituality and to belief, as much about what isn't there as about what is there," Mr. Harding said from Dresden, referring to the debate that arose from Brahms's use of texts from the Lutheran Bible in place of the standard Roman Catholic liturgy.
The High Church movement (which emphasized the "Catholic" side of Anglicanism) was given a distinctive character, first by the Oxford movement, or Tractarianism, which had grown up in the 1830s as a reaction against the new liberal theology, and then by the often provocative and always controversial ritualist agitation of the 1850s and '60s.
For instance, the always controversial Ken Livingstone used one of his first speeches as an MP in 1987 to name two Northern Ireland civil servants allegedly involved in "the buggery of young children at the Kincora boys' home", part of an suspected paedophile ring in Ulster.
They point to the unusually early completion of the always controversial schools budget.
Closing failing schools is always controversial, but New York's strategy of placing charters alongside traditional schools in public buildings - partly as an antidote to the cost and scarcity of real estate and partly as a way to fully embrace the notion of school choice - has elicited particular outrage in neighborhood after neighborhood.
The beefier Pixel 3 XL, meanwhile, is said to bump things up to a 6.71″ display (complete with the always controversial camera cutout) and 6GB of ram.
