She played him some of her music, probably a piano reduction of Bergamask, and described him as "a very appreciative critic".
The German critic Schlegel showed an appreciation for Shakespeare of a kind that no one in Hazlitt's country had yet demonstrated, and Hazlitt, sympathising with many of Schlegel's ideas, felt there was a place for a whole book that would provide appreciative criticism of all of Shakespeare's plays.
Building towers of plastic cups so Bartlette could destroy them; being an appreciative art critic for Carmen's Q-tip water-color people-scapes (where the people dwarfed their environment); and applauding the winners of Ferguson's Hot Wheels car races.
Rabelais's writing found some of its most appreciative readers and critics in the 20th century, not least the great Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin, who celebrated the revolutionary power of Rabelais's "carnivalesque" discourse.
Directed by Jonathan Berry, the dark comedy drew appreciative nods from critics in its premiere run last summer at the Gift Theater in Chicago.
In a similar appreciative spirit, the French critic André Fontainas praised Gauguin for "his complete sincerity," "surging emotions," and the very modern "violent oppositions" of his colours.
So in addition to a single story salvaged from the pages of Esquire, this book offers Bellow's devotees nothing new except: (1) an interesting preface by the author's wife, Janis Bellow, describing how her husband transformed an anecdote overheard at a dinner party into "The Bellarosa Connection," and (2) an appreciative introduction by the critic James Wood.
Smart critics, other painters, appreciative amateurs.
The timing of their availability — and the appreciative attention they received from critics and cinephiles — hardly seems coincidental.
Although the response to the film was mixed, critics were highly appreciative of Moore's performance.
