Sentence examples for maintained a critical from inspiring English sources
Fox maintained a critical embargo until the week of the movie's release in a ploy cynics have suggested was designed to limit negative coverage.
He studied the compositions of Igor Stravinsky, particularly the early ballets, but maintained a critical attitude toward his countryman's brilliant innovations.
The presidential campaign has been spared such vicious attacks, although NTV, the flagship station of Mr. Gusinsky's empire, has maintained a critical view of Mr. Putin, and in particular, the war in Chechnya.
The art critic Carlo McCormick, who has known Mr. Martin's work since it came to notice in the East Village art scene in the '80s, said the artist had always maintained a critical distance from the mainstream.
It is therefore unknown whether treatment effects were maintained, a critical issue for chronic conditions.
The ability to maintain a critical eye and the ability to criticize the ruler -- even if one has voted for him/her -- is a hallmark of democratic societies.
Serkis maintains a critical continuity of voice by performing all the musical numbers himself.
Keene maintains a critical balance between his role as a historian and his intimate engagement with his subject.
But Tip is an aloof Harvard ichthyologist, "the kind of kid who could hang from your neck and still maintain a critical distance," and he is impatient with the family ambitions.
No wonder nobody seemed to know what to make of it: Elliott's film is balls-to-the-wall campy, existing on a self-conscious wavelength that allows the director to sweep us up in song and dance while maintaining a critical distance from the folklore version of Australia it depicts and dismantles.
On the diplomatic front the game is both simple and familiar: to maintain a critical ambiguity in the face of the real facts on the ground, represented by the increase in settlement building by the Israeli government, in the midst of the last round of peace talks.
