Commenting on many critics' observations that "Losing Battles" and her other works carried a strong sense of place, Miss Welty said: "I think Southerners have such an intimate sense of place.
Critics interpret this observation as a claim that every sexual act is an act of domination (or rape), an inference that does not follow from the general observation about the role of sex in oppression.
Today, the 19th-century critic John Ruskin's observation that "the neglect of art... has been of evil consequence to the Christian world" sounds so overwrought to us — so filled with moral outrage — as to verge on the unintentionally hilarious.
Back in the 1950s, critics made similar observations about "The Fourposter," with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, and the film that followed, with Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrison on the bed and an extra space in the title ("The Four Poster").
True enough, but you can also appreciate the aptness of the critic Adolphe Jullien's observation that Massenet showed "the greatest suppleness and skill" in the score "without putting much musical pith into it".
Peek a Boo took the form of a freak show, with Baker offering herself for observation; critic Marina Warner suggested this owed much to the spectacles that Carcot insisted that his patients made of themselves, when he treated them at his Paris hospital in the 19th century.
More weathered the storm, however, even after his Apology of Dr Henry More (1664), a response to Beaumont and other critics, elicited Some Observations on the Apologie of Dr. Henry More (1665) from an unconvinced Beaumont.
Paley began his remarks referencing the L.A. Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne's observation that L.A. appears to have embarked on a third way, a post-car dominated Los Angeles that is embracing transit, biking and walking as well as human scale transit-oriented development.
Some critics use these observations to call for radical re-examination of forest policy frameworks - especially as they relate to questions of forest land tenure, consideration of subsistence needs of the poor, recognition of indigenous or ancestral land rights - and to question the fundamental legitimacy of many national forest policies.
