Sentence examples for hostile review from inspiring English sources

A subsequent entry dismisses a hostile review of Civilization by another critic, Alex von Tunzelmann.

One is theatre critic Ben Brantley's obtuse and hostile review in the New York Times.

(I found the book's story more persuasive than did, say, John Gray, to pick out the most hostile review I've seen to date).

In my post last week on Steven Pinker's "The Better Angels of Our Nature," I mentioned John Gray's hostile review of the book without citing what I thought was its most effective passage.

In a hostile review of "The Sociological Imagination," the sociologist Edward Shils described Mills as a "burly cowpuncher on the long, slow ride from the Panhandle of Texas to Columbia University".

And when I tell him that I've just bought a book called Tony Kushner in Conversation, in which he says my hostile review of his play A Bright Room Called Day in 1988 turned him off critics, he says: "I'm sure I meant Michael Coveney".

In the latest installment of "The Intellectual Situation," a short essay called "The Reading Crisis" examines some of the oft-diagnosed symptoms of literature's ill health, from slumping book sales to the cancellation of Oprah's Book Club, and finds many of the proposed remedies - including Believerish hostility to hostile reviews - to be worse than the disease.

Mr. Dyer reminded him that he also wrote two hostile reviews of books Mr. Robertson published.

Although the first volume sold well, it received some surprisingly hostile reviews.

Long ago Mr. Manilow developed his own rationale for why he earned such hostile reviews.

After moving to Pisa in 1820, Shelley was stung by hostile reviews into expressing his hopes more guardedly.