My job as a music critic depends on listening in crowds and writing in solitude.
Osama bin Laden, formerly the world's rudest architecture critic, now either (depending on who you believe) feeding the dumb gulping creatures of the deep or having his skull put to use as Barack Obama's grisly personal wine-cup, has now also become the latest global figure to take part in the celebrity shelfie craze.
Imagine baseball umpires who could be hired and fired by one team, movie reviewers paid entirely by Hollywood or restaurant critics who depend on the chefs they evaluate for every meal.
Calcott views proximate-ultimate as "a false dichotomy", whilst for Haig it has different meanings depending on whether one is critic or advocate, Mayr himself or modern user.
"Yellow Dog," a satire that takes on, among other things, the pornography industry, British royalty and the tabloid press, is either an embarrassment or a masterpiece, depending on which critics you listen to; whether they have rivalrous relationships with Mr. Amis; and whether they admire his pungent, lacerating prose.
Depending on which critic you read here, it is either odd or only fitting that Miranda's story be told in musical theater, typically a North American genre.
Why take the risk of sabotaging himself, with the Barbers in the rearview mirror but Dallas the next stop on the long road to respectability, or redemption, depending on the critic.
Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch – either an astonishing masterpiece or tedious, overlong turkey of a novel depending on which critic you read – is favourite to win the UK's only annual book prize for fiction written by women.
"Progressives criticize me for drawing attention to human rights violations in the North, and conservatives attack me for calling for aid for the North," Pomnyun said, adding that he had also, depending on the critic, been accused of working for the C.I.A. or the North Korean government.
That's about 15 Android smartphones that could, depending on the critic, have been classified as the best Android smartphone available at some point in 2012.
