Already famously cautious, Darwin was now more insistent than ever on anticipating critics' charges and therefore amassing as many lines of evidence as possible to buttress his "one long argument" for the veracity of natural selection.
Huey even anticipated his critics — this is a favorite device of McGruder's — by observing, "What I really like about this idea is that it isn't the least bit sexist or chauvinistic".
But Disney had anticipated his critics by muting his palette — the film is largely in tones of green, brown and blue, with strategically chosen bright-red highlights (Snow White's lips, the poison apple) — and by slowing down the narrative pace to a near standstill.
Since its release, Illmatic has become a benchmark for upcoming rappers whose albums are widely anticipated by critics.
He had been tipped off that his novel was going to be reviewed by Gilbert Millstein, but he cannot have anticipated the critic's excitement.
He also anticipates his critics by having Serdar Bey accuse Ka in the Border Gazette of being so "ashamed of being a Turk that you hide your true name behind the fake, foreign, counterfeit name of Ka".
In "Eyewitness to Power" Mr. Gergen also devotes a large amount of space to drawing lessons in communication from President Reagan's speeches: keep it short and brisk, he advises, "use the language of the living room," "look for catchy facts," "use the occasional prop," "be positive," "anticipate the critics" and "have a good closer".
Test-based reform has turned out the way critics anticipated, not the way the reformers intended.
LONDON — The stage for the one-man show was set, the drama widely anticipated and the critics assembled.
Yet West very quickly showed that he is a far more dexterous politician than his critics anticipated.
