Sentence examples for intellectual critique from inspiring English sources

As a result, her music lives — no, jumps off — the stage rather than sitting passively on her teacher's desk awaiting intellectual critique," he said.

Franzen realised something like this when he read Underworld, and pledged to put the matter right by producing, in his novel The Corrections, a book of DeLillo-like breadth and intellectual critique which was centred on human beings.

We typically think of religion as cultural – a rich network of beliefs, symbols, practices and social relations – and non-religion as a purely intellectual critique of (some aspects of) these cultures.

As Home Affairs spokesman he has developed an intellectual critique of Labour's crime policy while acknowledging that Liberals owe the granny trapped on the 19th floor an answer to her question: 'What will you do about the thugs?' The better you know Clegg, the odder it seems to dismiss him as a Cameron manque.

Scokpol's is a withering intellectual critique, unfair in some ways to the environmental NGOs.

3. The mixture and history of John Jennings work is the site of contemporary Black visual art harboring an amalgamation of intellectual critique juxtaposed with the imagination of a new Black cultural identity.

* Emerging political and intellectual critiques.

''Any type of reaction is welcome, from intellectual critiques to emotional outbursts.'' Then comes an Amend and Clarify round, and, lest any clarification stand unmuddied for even a heartbeat, a rousing Objection round follows hard upon it.

In fact, YouTube shines a light on countless old pop promos, which has given rise to blogs like Obtusity (obtusity.blogspot.com), which embeds music videos alongside what it calls "intellectual" critiques.

The anti intellectual critiques suggest that highly educated people are an isolated social group removed from the realities of Main Street.

This debate is often played out in the real world, of course: Barbie is the subject of perennial criticism along the lines of Lisa's critique of Malibu Stacy, yet remains immensely popular, and in general, we often see intellectual critiques of toys dismissed as 'out of touch' or elitist".