Sentence examples for critics smile from inspiring English sources

The King of Limbs begins in a manner that will no doubt make both Radiohead fans and critics smile – a looped piano riff reminiscent of Philip Glass is interrupted by crackly interference before disjointed rhythms and bleeps cascade over it.

Critics smiled at the incongruity of placing a fable about degeneration in a planned and pampered urban park.

Even the most Scrooge-like art critics smiled last week when Sotheby's auctioned Jeff Koons' gigantic, shiny "Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold)," a dazzling piece of artistic eye candy.

When asked Wednesday how he'd come back from his criticisms and work again with some of his strongest critics, Cruz smiled and didn't hold back.

"Oh, I love critics," he smiles.

"So, does the Times send its classical critic or its pop critic?" She smiled, "I write about classical".

With a handful of exceptions (Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" and Gore Verbinski's "Weather Man" among them) critics have not smiled on Mr. Cage's films of the past decade, which include a grab bag of hits and flops in various genres.

But Richardson, an outspoken critic of Marbury, smiled and shrugged.

Fela Kuti, the late legendary Nigerian Afrobeat musician and social critic, once said his countrymen "suffer and smile"; a stance he described as "approaching slave mentality".

Of his playing in this film, the American critic Pauline Kael percipiently remarked: "He is not allowed to smile the famous smile, or even to look soulfully lovesick.

As film critic Leonard Maltin told The Times on Tuesday: "You can't help but smile when you sing or hum a Sherman brothers song".