Although favorably stating that Carey lowered the volume on her vocals, he said that the energy had declined, with the exception of personality-injected songs like "Hero" and "Dreamlover".
In naming it the fourth greatest album on About.com's list of the Best Rap Albums of 1993, columnist Henry Adaso wrote of the album favorably, stating "Unlike most hip-hop albums of its era, Enta Da Stage eschewed confrontational raps and opted for brooding, electrifying brand of hip-hop".
In the essay "Librarians, Professionalism and Image: Stereotype and Reality" (2007), Abigail Luthmann views the character less favorably, stating that "[t]he unassuming role of librarian is used as a low-visibility disguise for her crime-fighting alter-ego, and while her information-locating skills may have been useful to her extra-curricular activities no direct examples are given".
The connection between the puzzles and the overall presentation of the game was favorably received; Tom McShea of GameSpot stated that Braid was "the rare game that will make you rack your brain trying to solve puzzles one minute while challenging you to come to terms with its mature tale the next".
Those compared favorably with state averages of 494, 591 and 493, respectively.
Although the district is predominantly Democratic, voters have looked favorably on state Senator Peter Inverso in the past, and his current challenger, Anthony Cimino, is not expected to unseat him.
In that poll, the percentage of people who said they viewed Mr. Kerry favorably in states where he was advertising grew by 8 percentage points after he began showing the spots.
A user evaluation showed that PRECIOUS compares favorably against state-of-the-art approaches.
Our results show that DeepNAT compares favorably to state-of-the-art methods.
Experimental results show that the proposed methodology compares favorably with state of the art methodologies that are more elaborated or were specifically designed for this purpose.
