It is, however, a fairly specific critique rather than a broad one.
All of this comes by way of critique rather than criticism, and explanation as opposed to excuse.
It has more options than towns and cities do; it can come up with a way of critiquing, rather than concealing or enduring, its own past.
Today, in TV drama after TV drama, the traumatised veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are used in ways which critique, rather than celebrate, those wars.
Critical studies should set out to critique rather than criticize – the aim here is to "make meaning out of things, not find fault in them" (Watson, 2016, n.p).
This research is a critique, rather than a criticism, of the efforts to promote the rights of children on the move, and shows how paternalism is an inherent ingredient of humanitarianism.
Still others argue that Smith's account of virtue re-works but to a remarkable degree also retains the highest ideals of both the Christian and the ancient Greco-Roman traditions, suggesting that his willingness to uphold such an ideal of character even in modern commercial societies should be understand as a critique rather than an endorsement of Rousseau (Hanley 2009).
He maintained that appearances need to be critiqued rather than simply documented.
But more generally, a critical interpretive synthesis is critical in the broader sense of critique rather than this more limited sense of critical appraisal, in which each study is judged against the standards of its type.
Our experience suggests that while attention to scientific quality is required, more generally the emphasis should be on critique rather than critical appraisal, and an ongoing critical orientation to the material examined and to emerging theoretical ideas.
