Sentence examples for critical authority from inspiring English sources

More than ever, critical authority comes from the power of the critic's prose, the force and clarity of her language; it is in the art of writing itself that information and knowledge are carried, in the sentences themselves that literature is preserved.

Jonson "would do much to transform the status of the dramatic author in early modern England, boldly asserting his moral dignity, critical authority and quasi-legal rights of textual ownership," Donaldson writes.

The growth of electronic commerce has spawned a new kind of critical authority -- one's peers.

A.O. SCOTT I have to say that the idea of critical authority has always struck me as slippery, even chimerical.

You'll have to ask someone with more critical authority and distance for an analysis of this play, I'm afraid.

Modernist art and literature, in this version of the story, depended on that distinction to give its products critical authority.

No doubt they were not stupid, but some of the critical authorities they would otherwise have read undoubtedly were stupid.

And it was given powerful tools of enforcement and critical legal authority over states.

The city at that time, he told me recently, was "a chaotic capital where you could be critical of authority like nowhere else".

Jordan, 52, was taken by helicopter to Brackenridge Hospital in critical condition, authorities said.

One of the six people taken to hospital was in critical condition, authorities said, and another was in serious condition.