Lumping violations together tends to trivialize the most hazardous and gives the less significant more attention than they deserve, critics say.
Does the role of lighting designer get the recognition it deserves from the critics and the audience?
Yet the fillip of more German demand would not necessarily save the rest of Europe from the difficult road ahead.The oddity is that where Germany really now deserves blame, the critics are almost silent.
JP Pietersen was the nominal beneficiary, the winger bagging a hat-trick, but the work done inside him by various stalwarts – some of them highly experienced but equally scrutinised by South Africa's unforgiving critics – deserves the plaudits.
The president, any president, deserves to be criticized, but only if the critics propose a realistic alternative.
"Heaven's Gate," the 1980 Western directed by Michael Cimino, was savaged by the critics but deserves a second look.
It flopped with critics but deserves a fresh look, if only to recall Kirstein's polemical zeal and fleeting Bolshevism.
Nowadays, he is being given the kind of respect he deserves, even lauded by critics as a bona fide, one-of-a-kind American genius.
Despite his failures as a literary critic, he probably deserves some credit for the great crop of critics who came after him — not just Wilson but the whole school of the forties and fifties (Trilling, Kazin, Jarrell, others), assured both in their ideas and in their excellent, lay-it-down prose.
All of our inner critics deserve a pummelling, but you do wish that Treays had figured out a way of offing his tormentor with sharper instruments.
