Sentence examples for critic from inspiring English sources

Watching television and listening to the radio, I soon realised that here was a widely held sentiment: a visceral opposition to what one critic suggested we should literally call "the nanny state".

But he returned again and again to the posed naked figure, male and female – the ultimate test and validation, so the critic Robert Hughes has stated, of any artist's merit and painterly ability.

You want to poke them with a stick, make them do stuff, screw and eat each other," wrote the Guardian's art critic Adrian Searle.

It then took me 10 years to be in a position to help found Citizens UK as a sister training institute and organising alliance, but from 1989 onwards Ed became my trainer, critic, mentor and friend.

As the New York Times art critic Roberta Smith once wrote: "before multiculturalism was a word, Mrs Apfel was wearing it".

From the early 1980s onwards, Murdoch's best-selling daily, the Sun, has been a persistent critic of the European Union and all its works.

"The Giver depicts a society where the government has grown well beyond an anti-state," reveals the budding critic.

"Who knows why it didn't work?" says Justin Chang, senior film critic at Variety.

"In Germany, we aren't thrown by directors who are irreverent towards the original material," Peter Laudenbach, theatre critic for Süddeutsche Zeitung, says.

It is the wince of the critic who knows it for sure.

Jones told Turnbull that because he had had dinner with Palmer, a trenchant critic of Abbott, "people" were suggesting that "precisely because you have no hope ever of being the leader again – you have got that into your head, no hope ever – that because of that you are happy to chuck a few bombs around that might blow up Abbott a bit, that is what they are saying".