Sentence examples for critics tendency from inspiring English sources

At the New Yorker Festival a few weeks ago, we talked about critics' tendency to identify writers as either "comic" or "serious".

The first underestimation reflects the critics' tendency to miss the potential breadth of the libertarian populist idea, which many of them are assessing purely through the lens of economic policy even though it has obvious implications for social issues and foreign policy as well.

In his 2002 essay, "Blunders of Virtue: The Problem of Race in Stephen Crane's 'The Monster'", John Clemen sums up the critics' tendency to either "ignore the evidence of Crane's racism, to dismiss it as a cultural influence irrelevant to his larger purposes, or to reconfigure it within his irony in such a way as to enable the story and its author to achieve an unintended racial insight".

The film critic's tendency is to want to divide Mr. Wiseman's "one long movie" into triumphs, near-misses and duds.

The EU's observers said that given the scale of the ruling party's victory electoral fiddles seemed unlikely to have altered the outcome.Until fairly recently Mr Hun Sen's critics had a tendency to die violent deaths.

While critics see a tendency to turn against mentors and allies, none of a dozen or so people interviewed had a clear answer to why Ms. Merkel entered politics, reached for the top or works so hard to stay there.

The Bush administration has proposed sweeping new pension rules that will encourage companies to adopt a type of retirement plan that has been under attack for three years for what critics call a tendency to strip benefits from older employees.

Vidal's critics disparaged his tendency to formulate an aphorism rather than to argue, finding in his work an underlying note of contempt for those who did not agree with him.

The theatre was poised for its great new talent, even if a few critics noted his tendency to "bark" out the words, but the movies already had their hooks in him.

Critics have a tendency to condescend to physical comedy, to brush off those masters of the sight gag and the pratfall, from Chaplin to Jim Carrey, by cooing over their "innocence," their "joyfulness," their "simplicity," as if they were talking about slightly slow but adorable children.

Critics condemned his tendency to make unilateral decisions and disregard the views of his entourage, a number of whom resigned or were dismissed.