Sentence examples for hostile critical from inspiring English sources

As a drama, Blasted sucks – and it met an initially hostile critical reaction.

Blumenthal remembers how both he and Adria experienced hostile critical reactions before so-called molecular gastronomy became fashionable.

It was controversial (see Libretto), but he persevered, and it was effectively performed (1875), but to a shocked and scandalized audience, and fairly hostile critical reception.

When "Betrayal" had its premiere at the National in 1978, it received, in Michael Billington's words, "a guarded, even downright hostile, critical reception".

Another study followed adolescents for 15 years and found that over a third became schizophrenic if both parents were hostile, critical and intrusive, compared with none where only one parent was or neither were.

Seen in an international context, Desta's no-win predicament has also been the fate of African modernism as a whole, with the West, seat of art-world economic power, delivering a hostile critical assessment in the form of almost complete silence.

Indian centers of learning, he found, were "impossibly rigid" and hostile to critical interrogation.

In an interview with local media, she said the policeman who initially heard her testimony was hostile and critical.

But Vladeck said, "It's not a story"; she said Thomas created a hostile environment critical to proving a sexual-harassment claim.

They believe -- incorrectly -- that others feel hostile or critical toward them and tend to defend themselves, in the process actually provoking hostility and a vicious cycle of anger.

Some commentators were supportive and and shared details of films I hadn't seen; others were hostile and critical, deriding my attempt to enhance my understanding of the condition by watching films about it.