It is a heavy tome, utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability.
It is a heavy tome, devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability.
It is a heavy tome, utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability," writes Gill.
A A Gill said Morrissey's book was a "heavy tome, utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability" and added that should an editor start cutting it "there would be no stopping".
The art of the bad review is a noble and well-established tradition, starting in 1662 with Samuel Pepys' hatchet job of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ("the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life") and ending last year with AA Gill's take-down of Morrissey's memoir ("utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability").
"In the film Iranians are considered to be monsters devoid of any culture, humanity and wisdom who know nothing except attacking other lands, threatening peace and killing human beings.
It is ancient wisdom that justice devoid of immeasurable and subjective values, like mercy and compassion, indeed empathy, becomes brittle and ultimately transformed into a tool of injustice, if not tyranny.
Klinkenborg's book is idiosyncratic, brilliant, largely devoid of structure, and full of subtle wisdom.
