Sentence examples for brilliant criticism from inspiring English sources

Its contributors included practically all the leading New Testament scholars of the day, among them Austin Farrer who (unlike Nineham) kept his brilliant criticism of the Gospels apart from his professed orthodoxy.

Though Gielgud worried about the brutal 'modernism' of Olivier's style, he thanked him for the 'quite brilliant criticism' he dished out, praised his saintly patience in dealing with the manic Vivien Leigh, and selflessly venerated his 'acting genius' and 'gift for leadership'.

Whether he's collecting butterflies in the summer of his Berlin Childhood, tracing the spine of Balzac's La Peau de Chagrin as he unpacks his library, or wandering the streets of Paris, the images of his world linger, even as they cut, with the speed of montage, into passages of brilliant criticism.

I can only hope that it's a worthy addition to all the brilliant Egan criticism out there.

Having praised Tynan as a drama critic and a journalist, Wheatcroft writes, "The truth is that, though terrifically smart and funny, Tynan was in no sense intellectual," which tends to suggest that brilliant drama criticism can be written without the aid of a refined, first-class intellect.

Reviews were generally favorable ("delicate and judicious in its criticism, brilliant in its illustration, easy and pointed in its style," one said), and Cambridge was pleased.

Tynan wrote, "She will be remembered for her brilliant mind, her criticism, and her stories; and by her friends for her importunate heart".

But he also began to make a name for himself through his brilliant and witty criticism for the Berlinische Privilegierte Zeitung, on which he was book review editor.

Guttenplan is brilliant in his criticism of such self-appointed censors as the Anti-Defamation League, whaveave turned the history of the Holocaust into a sacred text, and cast out heterodox views as blasphemy.

(The prefaces to his plays could be taught in politics courses, and he wrote brilliant theater and music criticism).

Ferenc Kölcsey was a deputy in the Hungarian parliament and a brilliant orator; his literary criticism was of a high standard, though unduly severe.