Sentence examples for mere critique from inspiring English sources

This is where what's evolving, however awkwardly, into the 21st-century socialist intellectualism shows its strengths: a willingness to present a vision for the future, something deeper than mere critique.

"Double Fold is not a mere critique of the preservation methods of librarians," writes Professor Richard J Cox, who has written a reply to Baker, entitled Vandals in the Stacks?. "Instead, it looks for a conspiracy (and looks and looks)." It is now 10.36 and the fire that Baker had so carefully built and tended has burnt right down.

While not framed publicly as a "new artists show," its emphasis was on the ongoing investment in its participants, an approach that transcended mere institutional critique to establish a new model, a real attempt at sovereignty by and for a new generation.

He reports that he discovered many young artists who were aware of "the need to perform some greater role than mere decoration or ironic critique," and he adds that they were "looking for ways to sustain creative practices without concern for the art market or art-world accolades.

And other critics have compared Lange's work to advertising that portrays women as a mere series of parts — a critique that surprised Lange.

Another development in the Western society of the 19th century discredited the influence and the intellectual credibility of religious and spiritual traditions: the philosophical and scientific critique of religious explanations as mere extrapolations of naïve anthropocentrism.

His consideration of reason is notable not for its familiar observation that reason is inadequate to religious knowledge, but for his pragmatist critique of the adequacy of mere reason even for scientific knowledge.

When the librotraficantes create a parody of smuggling and border crossing in the absence of MAS, they critique its illegitimacy and recognize the mere distribution of books is not enough.

The Nanny Diaries may have been dismissed by some as "mere" chick lit, but the novel offered a searing critique of the Manhattan elite through the lens of the childcare staff.

Women whose fathers, brothers or husbands happen to have political careers are treated as mere appendages of their male relatives – to be judged, critiqued and shamed for the sole purpose of reflecting embarrassment back on to the male politician.

I argue that Villagrá's epic poem of the Oñate expedition reveals that the soldier was no mere chronicler but rather that his writing offers a subtle critique of the empire whose expansion he seems to be celebrating.