Described by one commentator as an "ironic meditation on the evolution of literary memory," it was peppered with allusions to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Evelyn Waugh, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, and the Bloomsbury group.
Question: which news event that made headlines last week was described by one commentator as "the most sickening act of deception I think I have ever come across"?
Even before the latest mass uprising, described by one commentator as a "popular impeachment", and the army coup, the Muslim Brothers had been heavily defeated in elections for university student councils and professional syndicates, bodies they had long dominated.Egypt's myriad bickering secular parties are not well placed to profit from the Brothers' demise.
A government strategy of collaboration with the industry was described by one commentator as akin to asking a "burglar to install your locks".
Two years earlier, Smyth had been described by one commentator as the "Usain Bolt of Paralympic sprinting" after he streaked to two gold medals in front of 90,000 spectators at the Bird's Nest.
Mackintosh's reputation is not well-served by either, particularly Joyce's partisan record which is described by one commentator as a "self-aggrandizing epic".
During his first term in office, National remained high in the polls and support for John Key was described by one commentator as 'stratospheric'stratospheric
The tone of the event has been described by one commentator as "unsympathetic, lack[ing] dignity and finesse, and [with] all the superficial qualities of a 'media event'".
Another line of criticism of Belldandy relates to the sexual nature of the character, with Belldandy being described by one commentator as a "soft porn goddess".
Her infamous interview on LBC Radio, in which she admitted suffering a "mental brain fade" as she struggled to explain how her party would fund the Green party's pledge to build 500,000 council houses, was described by some political commentators as one of the worst interviews in British politics.
