Sentence examples for compelling criticism from inspiring English sources

It's not an accident that the habitual critical vocabulary calls works of art "powerful," "convincing," even "compelling"; criticism, like art, doesn't seek to describe the world but to change it, and, in considering the legacy of a critic, it's worth considering the nature of the changes it involves.

At a glance, this is a compelling criticism.

The government's efforts to do just that in this case helped produce the housing bubble, which led directly to crisis and recession.A neat story, but one that prompted compelling criticisms from the other two panelists.

Indeed, the most compelling criticisms of this White House have come from libertarians and anti-interventionists on both the left and right, on issues ranging from the dubiously-legal "kinetic military action" in Libya to the White House's willingness to order the assassination of an American citizen abroad.

Though many of the initial reactions were contradictory and evidenced misunderstandings of what Althusser was up to, compelling criticisms were also offered.

We are aware of compelling criticisms of undergraduate journals that put forth valid arguments, including the fact that publication in a student journal precludes publication of the data in a mainstream scientific journal.

Their work is, quite simply, ravishingly entertaining, and it passes the high test that their praise is even more compelling than their criticism.

Reduced to its essence, Marxist doctrine remains a compelling, albeit imperfect, moral criticism of Western society.

But Smith's criticism, though compelling, responds only to Putnam's argument construed as a refutation of skepticism.

Facebook telling people that if they want to opt out of its ad targeting they must delete their account is neither a route to obtain meaningful (and therefore lawful) consent — nor a very compelling approach to counter criticism that its real business is farming people.

Separately, these criticisms seem compelling, but taken together they cancel each other out.