Sentence examples for direct critique from inspiring English sources

Kargaltsev said his photograph is a direct critique of the image of Zhukova, which he described as "an outrageous and tasteless gaffe".

In the paper, he included a direct critique of a renowned study in behavioral economics that suggested people often hold on to an item they own (a house, for example) in the vain hope that its value will rise.

A week after the court issued its decision in January in the case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Mr. Obama delivered an unusually direct critique in his State of the Union address, with justices in the audience.

Finally, his careful consideration and rejection of individualism in religion is a direct critique of the Jamesean view of religious experience.

As a direct critique of the regulatory policies enforced by the European Food safety Authority EFSA, independent scientists have claimed that the present regime of industry self-control (autoregulation) is insufficient to provide necessary evidence and ensure the long-term interests of society.

This post-national and post-racial view of culture is certainly a direct critique of the MCP's core assumptions, and allows us to centre the policy on common bonds, which must prevail over differences as a premise on which to formulate policies.

And as they settled into overstuffed chairs, Mr. Bush and Mr. Clinton became something of an ex-presidents' support group, avoiding direct critiques of each other, or, for that matter, their future club member, President Obama ("I want you to understand that anything I say is not to be critical of my successor," Mr. Bush said, "there are plenty of critics in American society").

Here, direct criticism is often taken as a very personal critique".

Having assumed that there are objective moral obligations, Pascal directs his critique, both in the Provincial Letters and in his contributions to the Écrits des Curés de Paris, to the claim, attributed to Jesuit casuists, that one can change the moral character of actions by changing one's intention at the time of their performance.

But if Howard Dean drops out of the race soon, Mr. Bush may abandon lobbing overhead shots, White House aides say, just as Mr. Kerry has been directing his critiques at Mr. Bush.

But before doing so, he was direct in his critique of Western foreign policy.